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THE GREEN KNIGHT / faceless 2021 • dir. David Lowery

thefullestco

can some psychologist explain why every time this video plays I have to watch the entire thing

theorderofthetriad

bobbyjean

How many of letterboxd’s 10 all time most popular films have you seen?

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#somehow have never seen Truman show???

spaceshipsandpurpledrank

What Waffle House orientations are like

rylandsgrace

isuggestkillingyourself

tactfulsaboteur

#thermodynamics is just like that

thegeekstressart

You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?

So it was with this desktop greenhouse.

I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.

I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.

I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.

I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…

Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.

I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.

This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.

I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.

Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.

In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…

I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.

Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.

laviejaguardia

kay but imagine Yuna's POV like your husband is bitching about his charger, your son is on a silent retreat not picking up his phone so your husband just leaves to pick it up promises to be quick only to turn back with a haunted look on his eyes he refuses to explain AND THEN twenty minutes later your beloved son arrives, with his MOST HATED RIVAL in town, who btw is dressed like he was just out of trainig with your enemies but is standing like he's been called into the principals office for misbehaving while your son just blurts out that he's fucking GAY and IN LOVE with said archrival and so youre like lets just get a coffee and sit down and then you learn your darling son perfect in all ways has been fucking this guy for YEARS so maybe lets switch to vodka but the russian archrival is actually complementing it and you don't know whats real anymore except that you love your son and you just learned that somewhere along the line of these twenty something years you've had him you've failed him because he genuinely thought there was even a chance you might not love all of him no matter what