My niece recently passed away after her long struggle with cancer. She was six years old. I just wanted to give a heartfelt THANK YOU to anyone who in any way aided her and her family during these terrible times. Whether you donated to her charity, or just sent her a kind thought, or anything in between; thank you.
Haven´t properly maintained this page in ages. Long story short; I´ve moved towns again, started a new education programme at University of Gothenburg (teacher towards kids between 7-18, with main subjects being visual arts and handicrafts). I´ll get back to updating soon. Backlog of stuff is... Huge.
My niece recently passed away after her long struggle with cancer. She was six years old. I just wanted to give a heartfelt THANK YOU to anyone who in any way aided her and her family during these terrible times. Whether you donated to her charity, or just sent her a kind thought, or anything in between; thank you.
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Oh, just a work in progress. A long-going project called "Gilded Jack".
What's fun about this one is that it is entirely latex-free. For a sketching class at uni.
I went to the graveyard with my good friend Daniel and sketched in place. ... or cigar box lyre. Because why not. I had a really shallow cigar box lying around. So I naturally made a frame for it, from old copper tubing. Well, I learned how to solder in the process. Zither pins reclaimed from a dead zither, various pieces of string. The top part with the pins has a bespoke lathe-turned oak rod within, giving the pins some traction. The top part is not soldered, just held in place by string pressure. So if anything goes wrong with it, it's easy to replace. Loosely based upon the anglo-saxon style. This was mostly for the shits and the giggles, but I really surprised myself by actually making a really good instrument. ... Because I did not find a brandy box on the thrift. Well, my main instrument these days is a cigar box guitar. Having friends over and attempting (poorly, I might add) to have an ol' fashioned jam-sesh, quickly falls apart with a poor choice in instruments. Hence the bass. The kinda CBG matched WBB. Two strings, fretless, piezo pickup, oak neck. First wind-up sounded like crap due to the strings being old dirty crap strings, the thicker one sourced from a slaughtered piano from the 1820's. New strings fixed that, and yeah. The combo of guitar and bass is a lot more satisfying than guitar and guitar. It's unlikely that I'm the first to independently come up with this solution, but I am yet to see it in the builds of others: Extending the paintjob of the fretboard for like half a cm unto the player side of the neck negates the need for marking pins.
... Played Stockholm wednesday the 14th june. I was there. With fantastic company of my GF, and a very good friend. Terrible sound mix, sweaty locale, supporting act INHALT just so, so, awful. 6 hours in a reliable but not very comfortable car to get there... ... It. Was. Awesome. Been a fan since mid 90's, but oh crap allmighty, these guys just rock so much. A beautiful photo of the stage. I swear they hunched down a bit extra every time I raised my camera.
They played "killing game". I did not expect them to, but they did. And also "assimilate", but mostly "killing game". Oh, and "VX gas attack", but then again, they played "killing game", so yeah. I still have a raging music-boner from that. Just fantastic. And then on the way home we hit a flea market. I do so love flea markets. and other euphemisms. I found a pair of inexpensive bovine horns at a flea market. Gave it a go to make a powder horn. For once, I actually documented the process. ... And regarding my niece: The goal of the fundraiser was met. If anyone got there from here, thank you. Thank you so much. This is my niece, Emma. She's about to turn four years old. This is her brain. They grey in the middle is the tumor that's killing her.
So I hastily threw together some photoshoppes of the fish-folk to be. Of course there is a myriad of excellent renditions of the Innsmouthians out there, done by wonderfully talented artists, but I have a small grievance: The majority of such work I have seen has been placed a bit too late in the metamorphic stage for my tastes. Just saying that if I can't slap a hat on the poor mutant and call it human, then I'll call it a monster and have my silly investigator raise the revolver. Should you find yourself to be the proprietor of any of the source images (shamelessly taken from the web without any deeper look into genealogy or ownership) and find this non-commercial usage in any way offensive; send me a line and I will immediately take said pictures offline and offer up my biggest darndest apology with cream and a cherry on top. For Game Keepers: I print on photo paper and then apply a thin layer of shellac varnish. Usually, this makes the pictures a bit more hardy for use and give them a rustic found-in-ancient-damp-cellar kind of vibe.
... I believe these word-lock-puzzle-thingies are called post the world-fall, i.e. Dan Brown's rise to power. Anyhow, I built this with the intention of springing it on my friends the next time we play CoC, as part of the story, of course. No, I won't tell you the password, quit asking. I don't think these friends in question ever check out what I post here, so I'm not worried.
There are a plethora of well constructed, in-depth how-tos out there on the web. I checked most of them out to get my head around the construction, then made this design on the basis of not having access to a lathe. Ordinary drill for the most part. A piece of copper tube for the center, and quick-grown fir for the rest. Aiming at zero budget. Old drawer knobs at the ends. If anyone's interested, I'll share how it's made. |
Stefan
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