It snowed yesterday in South London. I made part of a snowman.
It took me a little less than six hours, using no tools except a small chair lent to me by a passerby.
Snow In London
It snowed yesterday in South London. I made part of a snowman.
It took me a little less than six hours, using no tools except a small chair lent to me by a passerby.
Alien Chestburster Puppet
Here's a test run of my latest bit of puppetry, made for Halloween 2010.
Gosh, it really turned out a lot more phallic than I'd intended. I don't think the shifty-looking overcoat helped much there, either.
I'm sure that the bit when it tries to bite me after I've been stroking it is a great metaphor for something.
Full DIY details here:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Alien-Chestburster-Puppet/ The puppet was sculpted in plasticine, then cast in latex from a plaster mould. Here are a few more photos of the process, with the finished costume (deep sea diver/alien victim) at the bottom.
How to fill a house party with interesting guests
So here's an idea I've been tossing around for a while. Living in a town where you don't know many people? Always meeting the same crowd at parties? Hoping to widen your social circle? Or maybe you're just lonely and don't have (m)any friends?
Try throwing a party using the invitation format below (click for larger image). It'll be interesting to see who turns up.
Yes, there's the risk that you'll end up with your house being trashed first by strangers and then by the police, but imagine how many people you'd meet!
Sociologically, it would be an interesting experiment. How many of your friends do you think would actually hand out invitations to strangers? How many strangers would accept? What criteria would people use for guest selection? I like to think that my friends are good judges of character, so my party should be populated by people with whom I'd get on well. Maybe.
Well, we'll find out in a couple of weeks at 999 Letsby Avenue (address changed for internet weirdo reasons). Wish me luck.
A note on the invitation itself: Yes, it's ugly, crowded and contains sloppy typography. Thanks for not pointing that out.
Try throwing a party using the invitation format below (click for larger image). It'll be interesting to see who turns up.
Yes, there's the risk that you'll end up with your house being trashed first by strangers and then by the police, but imagine how many people you'd meet!
Sociologically, it would be an interesting experiment. How many of your friends do you think would actually hand out invitations to strangers? How many strangers would accept? What criteria would people use for guest selection? I like to think that my friends are good judges of character, so my party should be populated by people with whom I'd get on well. Maybe.
Well, we'll find out in a couple of weeks at 999 Letsby Avenue (address changed for internet weirdo reasons). Wish me luck.
A note on the invitation itself: Yes, it's ugly, crowded and contains sloppy typography. Thanks for not pointing that out.
Photographic Terms for the Intrepid Fellow
Retro-anachronistic photographic visual puns abound!
Rather a large image here. Click for full size and watch out for concealed dinosaurs.
Rather a large image here. Click for full size and watch out for concealed dinosaurs.
266 Words
Here's a riff on Alfred Eisenstaedt's “V-J Day in Times Square”. Gotta love that photo.
Click for a larger and more legible image.
The Copenhagen Misinterpretation
Quantum mechanics.Half a cat was harmed in the making of this image.
Another t-shirt
They're made out of meat!
(With fond regards for Terry Bisson)
Simple and bold, this shirt is perfect for making friends with cannibals. It would also be ideal for coping with a desert island/mountainous plane crash survival* situation.
*Your friends' survival, obviously, not yours. Now that's altruism.
(With fond regards for Terry Bisson)
Simple and bold, this shirt is perfect for making friends with cannibals. It would also be ideal for coping with a desert island/mountainous plane crash survival* situation.
*Your friends' survival, obviously, not yours. Now that's altruism.
T-Shirt Ideas
Here are a couple of shirt designs I've recently submitted to Threadless.com. Here's hoping everyone loves them and I make millions.
More importantly, maybe this will go some way to spread public awareness of hazardous umbrella misuse:
The next design has missed the parody bandwagon by so far that it might be considered retro. As if Ewoks weren't retro enough already.
More importantly, maybe this will go some way to spread public awareness of hazardous umbrella misuse:
The next design has missed the parody bandwagon by so far that it might be considered retro. As if Ewoks weren't retro enough already.
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