Struggling...

...to find anything of interest to post about. Works really busy, but I guess that's what happens when your organisation launches a $17M initiative to the public. No really, we DO love aged pensioners calling us because they don't have a computer to look up our website, we DO. Someone needs to hug the old buggers because it's obvious no-one but us is talking to them. I mean, I understand your grand-daughter is playing rugby today but what does that have to do with us?

Not that there hasn't been some fun stuff going on, it's just not post worthy or ready for posting yet. I've started making some puppets for a series of shorts I'm producing. I've been videoing the procedure so I may put it up sometime. I'm making the heads from 'bendy-stretchy stuff' (technical term! OK, I just didn't want to use the word latex and have all the mature people here go off the rails). I've been doing a lot of character design, modelling, slush casting, etc. I have a beautiful example on tape of what happens when you screw up a plaster casting, the clay casting wall broke not once, but twice! It turned into a plaster fountain sending litres of liquid plaster all over my work bench, the floor, my camera tripod and me. I'm not sure I'll post that though, it's mostly me just scrambling to get something to contain the plaster while laughing my arse off. Very fun and messy work.

The series itself has a communist era Eastern European feel to it so I've been traipsing through a lot of material produced during that era. Here's a piece I found that, in my opinion, is nothing like what I'm producing but absolutely beautiful.



Hope everyone has a great weekend. Must go, I have a pensioner on the phone who's telling me about a boating trip they took in 1954. Please people, help me out, if your parents are aged, give them a bloody call and take some interest in their life. Hopefully they wont feel the need to call me.