Arts & Crafts

Drigovas · Post by **Drigovas** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 5:17 pm

I was struck by inspiration about a week ago, inspiration that took me out into traffic on the week before christmas, up to the local arts supply store [one of the big ones, that sells everything from picture frames to Styrofoam figurines] where I gathered up supplies. Like a giddy little school [gender], I raced home, and began drawing out plans to create what I thought was a damn cool thing.

It occurred to me two days later, as I stood there all alone with my right leg crotch-deep in molding material, that perhaps creating a life-sized replica of oneself out of gelatin is an endeavor that a sane person just does not embark upon. Perhaps I needed help, not with completing my project, but brain-help. The kind of help you need when you start believing everything you hear on TV. Aluminum-foil-hat help.

So I put my project on hold, certain that I’m getting just a little too weird for my own good. Figured I’d give it a week of thought, to let it sink in, and if I still wanted to do it then, I’d consider going ahead with it. Foolishly I told somebody else about my little project, and was promptly and likely appropriately mocked, given a photo-worthy ‘wtf’ look, and sent on my way.

But here! Kindred spirits! Admittedly I’m likely somewhat of a lower-bound on the mental stability of this little group [a group to which I hardly belong, but really want to belong to]. Here there must be people who have tried to make somewhat strange things! The high lord of this group created a banjo out of a hubcap, plenty strange, and something the person who mocked me would surely have had a discouraging thing or two to say about. What have you made, or have tried to make, that may have been a bit unusual? Anything from clothing to statues to programs, what have you taken upon yourself to bring to the world?

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:02 pm

I don't think I've ever done anything of note myself, but I do believe this requires pictures.

The Cheshire Dragon · Post by **The Cheshire Dragon** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:45 pm

-Knitted myself a 10 foot scarf...in about 5 months. \
-Going to either knit or crochet myself a tail.
-If I suddenly drop 20 pounds and figure out how to convincingly genderbend, I was thinking about making a CATS-esque costume of my cheetah character. He's a stripper, it would work well...
-Playing around with Super Sculpey, making a couple of magnets and a Dragonriders of Pern style dragonhead. Need to bake and paint these.

Yeah...I've been bored lately.

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:39 pm

Yaay! A Dragonriders of Pern fan!

Granted, I only read about two of the books in the series, and played the game, but what little I have enjoyed was wonderful.

Chthulhu · Post by **Chthulhu** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:57 pm

Do these count?

http://users.sdccu.net/chthulhu2/models.html

Tentacles here:

http://users.sdccu.net/chthulhu2/models ... hulhu.html

MistressMaggie · Post by **MistressMaggie** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:24 pm

I turned a bathroom sink cabinet into an awesome Tiki bar, but then I dropped it down the stairs.

Indigo Violent · Post by **Indigo Violent** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:41 pm

I made a Fimo figurine of Shakespeare for a friend of mine who was going away to Queens to study theatre, but that's all that springs to mind.

Kingofthemorlocks · Post by **Kingofthemorlocks** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:47 pm

Woke after a night of unsettling dreams to discover a ghastly, squatting sculpture with wings, an oversized head and crude representations of tentacles on my desk, and clay under my fingernails.

Does that count?

Drigovas · Post by **Drigovas** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:28 pm

orwell wrote:I don't think I've ever done anything of note myself, but I do believe this requires pictures.

Well considering at the moment it is just a leg mold, and the setup of the other leg mold, not much to take pictures of. Pictures that would only be taken if I owned a camera, which I do not. Perhaps if it ever becomes completed I'll see what I can do of getting a shot.

Not like it'll likely be able to stand on it's own though, so will have to find something to hold it up.

*edit* even better, how about I use myself to practice on, and if it turns out decent to really good, I'll find someone who you'd all actually be interested in seeing to see if they'll let me cast them. That way you get a finished product of an attractive person.

kingofthemorlocks wrote:Woke after a night of unsettling dreams to discover a ghastly, squatting sculpture with wings, an oversized head and crude representations of tentacles on my desk, and clay under my fingernails.

Does that count?

Totally. Counts.

JohnnyTwoEyes · Post by **JohnnyTwoEyes** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:40 pm

I have a ton of hobbies and things I do of the sort. I sew (make hats and stuffed animals and the like), I do sculpture, I like doing molding and casting (I plan to make a mold of my beloved's face when he gets here so I can mold a neat mask for him). I love arts and crafts. Hell, I was once going to make a computer case out of popsicle sticks.

PopeMac · Post by **PopeMac** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:29 pm

I have made a hat, trench coat, and a pair of pants out of duct tape. Unfortunately, the pants did not turn out well at all, so they were scrapped.

I also made a set of fully functional bagpipes out of PVC pipe and duct tape. I regard that as my greatest achievement in life.

As far as the gelatin sculpture goes, I for one think that it is an amazing idea.

Jackalope · Post by **Jackalope** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:37 pm

Most of my office is buried under various projects in different states of completeness or supplies for projects. And finished theatrical props and costumes. Those tend to take up a lot of room. One of my biggest problems is that the cats love to get into things. I've lost a couple balls of yarn to them at this point and have had to hide my knitting because they started digging around on my drafting table to get to the knitting when I put it up there. Monsters. They also love to get into my jewelry-making stuff.

Squidflakes · Post by **Squidflakes** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:08 am

I've got most of the upper castle done on a 40K scale Imperator titan. It comes out to about 4 feet of "miniature" figure, and if you're in to 40K at all, it comes in at about 12,000 points, then you add the company of space marines or IG it carries, and then you have a nice little afternoon's diversion.

LeftTentacleGreen · Post by **LeftTentacleGreen** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 6:17 am

The only thing I'm currently working on is an online comic with about 500 cast members.

Resident /B/tard · Post by **Resident /B/tard** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:35 am

Manufactured low-grade tentacles for an anime convention. I'm currently working on the high-grade versions.

Kittyboymuffin · Post by **Kittyboymuffin** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 10:21 am

Hmm ... most I've done, really, is try to make a paper-mache Dogbert ...

BriHahn · Post by **BriHahn** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:52 am

I have no hand/eye coordination. The extent of my artisticness extends to my voice; I don't have a GREAT voice, but I do have a good voice. So I sing.

WangyJohn · Post by **WangyJohn** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:49 pm

I've made explicit plans, in my head, on how to create a life-size (well, a petite -sized, really) Furry love doll, even down to materials and even how to ship it to possible buyers overseas (in a box labeled as "furniture"). I was even thinking of different systems to make ist make some kind of sound, blink, tighten its orfices etc.

Similar plans I've had of a decorative five spaker/lightshow display metallic 'flower', presummeably to serve as a backdrop for a band. Nevermind I couldn't probably build it worth shit, though i think I'd probably manage the welding. Then, a bookcase that includes a section for backlit posters on top, and true to my nature, i'm also thinking of how to make it as eco-friendly as possible.

And off course, like everyone who's ever seen one episode of Robot Wars, I've thought of what kind of machine I'd build myself.

Xnapalmxmorningx · Post by **Xnapalmxmorningx** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:35 pm

-8.5 ft long back and red striped scarf, which is called the "dr.who scarf", about one month
- went through an oragami phase a few years ago
- dabbled in duct tape clothing/ accessories.. still have a few of my purses and jewelery

As of right now I do lots of baking or cooking. Bread, cookies, cakes, roasts, stews, etc....

Honor · Post by **Honor** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:49 pm

the mold of yourself sounds very cool... Don't let the criticism of small minded people of limited vision distract you from your dreams.

I have so many odd projects laying around, partially finished... Or still in my head, awaiting completion... Of of the more odd is probably my Ramen projects. (Not really just a project... this one has enough branches and sub-projects to be referred to in the plural.)

One day it occurred to me that, since I really like ramen, and tend to eat it fairly often, I'd probably eaten quite a quantity of it - at that point in life, I think I estimated that I'd probably consumed more than 3,000 gallons of ramen, I didn't make an exact note of my estimates, but at this point it would be over 4,500 gallons... (when I first undertook to estimate it, I was hoping for a number that would fit well in terms of filled swimming pools, and it's just nowhere near that much. For the record, a person would have to eat over a thousand packages of ramen per week for a hundred years to fill an olymipc size swimming pool. That's almost 6 packages per hour, 24/7)

So... Instead, for stage one, I decided to save wrappers of various kinds of ramen I'd tried (I shop grocery stores, specialty asian shops, & other ethnic shops for different kinds of ramen, and when I'm in other cities or countries, I shop for ramen there, too.) and write very serious culinary reviews for them.

I have dozens and dozens of ramen wrappers, some taped to sheets of paper, some not... Pages and pages of reviews in notebooks, photographs of the finished soup product, and so on. I mean, this was -years- ago that I came up with this hare-brained scheme... More than a decade, at very least.

I -finally- bought a domain name for it earlier this year, and have done nothing on it since.

Stage two is ramen recipes, of course. (she says, as if all rational people shared her madness)

Stage three is ritualized gourmet ramen combat.... Iron Chef Ramen!

*cough*

I also draw, paint, sculpt, write, sing, design clothes, cook, design and build "things" (name it, tools to tents to houses), and make butcher block cutting boards out of exotic hardwoods. I also want to make custom sex toys.

...not crazy, not crazy, not crazy, not crazy, not crazy...

Oh, and, Chthulhudude... Your paper models rawk.

And Wangy... Those would -totally- sell like freekin' crazy. If you could sideline in the outfits for the furry kinkiness for wearing during the sexual activities of man (sorry, went all Pillzy there for a moment) those would sell beautifully too.