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/ Don

Making a Bobble Head

With the tradition of “Making a…” photologs on [d]online, Mike and I decided to try making our own Papier-mâché Halloween Bobble Heads.

The process was pretty straight-forward:

  1. Create a form with chicken wire
  2. Cover the form with masking tape
  3. Cover that with papier-mâché strips
  4. Build up the details with more papier-mâché
  5. Paint with spraypaint
  6. Cut out the mouth and add teeth
  7. Detail with tempora paint

I think it came out pretty nice. You can see the skull for my skeleton and the pumpkin for Mike’s Headless Horseman costume.

I’ll let you know how the neighborhood kids receive it after trick-or-treating on Friday evening.

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/ Don

SML

SML

SML

I thought of a funny idea for a t-shirt today that was simple, esoteric and capitalizes on the FML meme that has been creeping across the internet for the last year or so. I googled it, thinking that surely someone else had thought of it first — particularly in the wake of the feature film. To my surprise, it seems original. I doubt I’d be able convince Hanna-Barbera that a kitschy, risqué pun would be worth granting me permission to use their trademark, so I’m publishing it to the web for those who are ambitious enough to do it themselves.

Fun fact: The Smurfs are Les Schtroumpfs in French.