Last night’s build of the dog went much faster because Ken Scholes was in town and visited me in the studio. He is one of my favorite people and getting a chance to just yak away unto the wee hours was great. Plus he had brandy. He’s got his view of yesterday up on his […]
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I started by taking a drawing of a dog’s skeleton and enlarging it to fit the skull that I had. I simplified the basic shapes to come up with the pattern for the dog. Next I carved a spine of polyethalene, which is a very light and firm foam. Notice how I made the ribs
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No tricks, but we’ve got a treat for you: a new story from Vylar Kaftan. Download and read for free! Go on, it’s just a piece of candy. . . nothing scary at all. Grab some for your friends, too. Something Wicked This Way Plumbs Happy Halloween from Shimmer!
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I’m too fatigued to generate content today, though I still have lovely photos of the dead dog process. Meanwhile, listen to this podcast of The Moon by Jodi Eichelberger and Mark LaPierre.
My skull arrived day before yesterday! I am astonished by how beautiful it is. I’ve spent the last two days building the dead dog and have process shots for you, but at the moment, you’ll have to content yourself with this one of the skull. I will tell you that we have dubbed the dog
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On his way to the Hour of the Wolf, Steven stopped by our place. We have stayed up too late talking and now I am too tired to properly record today.
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I’ve mentioned the whole temping thing and today, my gig took a strange turn. My boss sent me to look at furniture for his office. The name of the store? Dallek. ((For those of you who are not familiar with Dr. Who. The Daleks are his most famous nemesis.)) Yeah. No one understood why I
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And I thought my job was a conversation bombshell. After -e- pointed out the Dermisted Beetles on the Skulls Unlimited employee page, I swung back to take a look. All the employees seem happy and are posing in front of pristine skulls, except this one photo. I looked closer. Then enlarged the photo…. Yep. Their
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With Halloween fast approaching, it seems like a good time to do a little project. Check out Skull-A-Day, which has a Papercraft Skull that you can make at home. The jaw moves via a tab that sticks out the back. Via Puppetbuilding Edited to add: Peterbilt spotted this “…amazing paper interpretation of Transformers’ Bumblebee, complete
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I was walking to the subway today on twenty-eight and realized that I was in the flower district. It’s confined to one block now so calling it a district is a bit of a misnomer, but still, it’s a block filled with growing things. I was tempted into a shop and walked out with an
With my fourteen year old nephew’s permission, I am linking to his story, the king saved the king of popcorn. He is striving for a dadaist sensibility — he told me so. I think this story succeeds admirably. Here’s a teaser. “omg! i have a bad imagination. so i have hired a few zombies to
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Bizarre. I designed these puppets years ago and evidentally they are being used in a remount now. Willamette Week reviewed the production and had this to say about my work. The puppets, designed by Mary Robinette Kowall [sic] ((Oddly, I only ran across this because, for the first time, I ran a search on a
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Senses Five Press has a really good interview with Steven Segal in their latest issue. When I read it, I thought that every person in genre should read it. Behold! They’ve got it posted online. It’s the first rule of magazine publishing: Have an identity. There are way, way too many magazines of all kinds
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Puppetry isn’t all fun and games. It’s got a long history of being used as a means of political satire and in Burma, that got two puppeteers and comedians arrested back in 1996. U Pa Pa Lay and his cousin U Lu Zaw, “The Moustache Brothers”, spent seven years in jail, while Amnesty International have
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I’m starting by using a real skull for the dog head. I’d planned on just getting a resin dog palette, but lo! There’s Skulls Unlimited has a giant collection of dog skulls. Now, I’m not going to be using the Chihuahua skull in this picture, but had to share it with you. Does that not
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