[hares-pelt-sky]

[fairycosmos]

my dead wife. the ad free internet

[fairycosmos]

watching dreamily recorded footage of a web forum from 2003

[juliaanoia]

I was really quite touched about how much love and kind comments puppet-Ned received. So here are some more pictures of him and how he was made.

Chilling in his cardboard box:

This creepy thing is his skeleton, so to speak:

I already had it lying around, leftover from the days when I took a stop motion class. Sadly I don't have any pictures on how I made this, but you can probably find tons of info online if you search for stop motion puppet building. It's made of aluminium wire, twisted together and epoxy putty for the 'bones'. Plus some foam ane fabric strips to give it some volume. (Those nasty yellow stains are glue)

Now, for his clothes: I don't sew and knew from the get go that it was impossible for me to make a perfect shirt and guernsey and his beloved greatcoats etc, BUT I had to put something on him lest he looked like a glue leaking mummy. So I got some Ken™-clothes (which we're way too big), cut them up and hot-glued them together. He wears a ribbon scarf to hide the gap between neck and body.

For the boots I took Ken shoes plus a strip from the Ken leather coat for the shafts. I filled them with hot glue and stuck them on his legs.

As a last-minute edition I made little band patches from the Ken clothes fabric. I simply cut them up, drew on them with markers and hot-glued them in place.

Now for the fun part: His head, hands and lemon are made of super sculpy. I really enjoyed sculpting his whiskers! Everything is painted with acrylic paint. I put tiny magnets in his hands so he'd be able to hold stuff, but those ended up migrating to his wrists a bit. Oh and the bulk of his head is alumininum foil, to make it less heavy.

So yeah, that's how Nedward was made. I didn't document the process all that well, but you get the Idea, I hope.

If you are looking for encouragement to build yourself a tiny blorbo, let this be it.

[soracities]

think it's a deep consolation to know that spiders dream, that monkeys tease predators, that dolphins have accents, that lions can be scared silly by a lone mongoose, that otters hold hands, and ants bury their dead. that there isn't their life and our life. nor your life and my life. that it's just one teetering and endless thread and all of us, all of us, are entangled w it as deep as entanglement goes. v neat i think.

[laurapalmeryuriconfirmed]

why is some of the most creative, beautiful, intricate art made by dudes named david

[bettedavisgf]

technicolour is like a dead wife to me

[monsterquest]

““Give Me Back My Beast!” Greta Garbo reportedly called out those words at the ending of Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast (1946), when she first saw the film. When the trapped Prince appears, after shedding his monstrous exterior, there is a strange sense of disappointment and loss, something that the film, beautifully, does not shy away from. The Beast, as played by Jean Marais, is such a visceral presence, so fearsome in aspect and yet so deeply emotional, that to see him as just a regular human (also played by Jean Marais) is upsetting. Something has been born, something has died. Belle (Josette Day) stares up at the glimmering prince before her, and you can see the loss flickering in her eyes. She does not fall upon him with lusty gratitude that he is now “beautiful” and therefore worthy of her love. She stares at him, in awe at the magic that has unfolded, but it is clear that her feelings are mixed. Finally, she says, “I’ll have to get used to it.” This is profound.”

— Sheila O’Malley

[andreablog2]

I love when desire leads to disappointment. It’s a classic

[bosquesapie]

[lamignonette]

Momoe Yamaguchi. Embroidery details ~ research 🧐. #momoeyamaguchi #notesfrombien

[osabishi-yama]

The embroidery Yamaguchi is wearing is part of an Ama (traditional pearl diver)’s uniform. The symbols originate from Onmyodo geomancy and are used together as an amulet of protection! The pentacle you see is a seiman (seal of Abe-no-Seimei) which helps one return to land safely, and on the other side of the headscarf should be a lattice called a douman (a seal of Ashiya Doman) which wards off evil by acting as a spiritual barrier.

[the-casbah-way]

do you see my vision.

[haectemporasunt]

This ad was part of a road safety campaign in 1967.

[rin-maru]

Közi (Eve Of Destiny) in Poland

[mawmenny]

[zgnilabazylia]

trans blok :)

[contemptible-scoundrel]

it's always two distinguished gentlemen saying precisely to each other

[kyrasaphira]

by Valentine Valero (2023)