Jigglevision

A friend of mine came into work looking pretty dejected one day.

He told me that he'd asked his daughter, who was about to turn 16, what she wanted for her birthday.

So I'm thinking car or horse or a phone in her room.

(Remember, this is the 80's and I've never had kids.)

Well, no. ...she wanted a boob job.

I like breasts as much as the next guy, but they're sure not going to make or break a deal, so I didn't get why this should be such a crisis, especially for an attractive girl with a lot of growing left to do.

I was between wives at the time, but intimate with a socially savvy (small breasted) woman. I told her about my friends plight, and how I just didn't get the girls obsession. My significant others response was to turn on the TV and start flipping thru the channels. The first thing she hit was a cartoon called "Thunder Cats".

She pointed out to me that you could easily tell the good 'guys' from the bad 'guys' because the good female cartoon characters always had the bigger breasts. She hit a half a dozen more stations, some TV shows, some commercials, it was all the same.

I was pretty wrapped up in another sculpture called "TV2, The News"

but that got put on hold so I could make this one.

I can't believe it still runs 20 years later

Little copper soldiers

I happened to run across a game called "Warhammer",  I was working with some younger guys who were really into it. 

The game itself was a little too rule heavy for my taste, but the soldiers were intriguing. 

These guys were as into the models as they were the game, which I liked. Personally, I'm not into things that come in kit form, but anything that lets people be creative with things in the real world 

(as opposed to the cyber world) is aces with me.

The items are fabricated from copper scrap I had hanging around. The bases are 1" disks of doubled up lead flashing. 

They stand about an inch and a half tall and are surprisingly heavy. 

I had intended to add some gravel or something to the bases once the set got larger.

I started a couple of other items in the series. A 'walker'  a cannon with legs and a couple of things that looked like jet powered locusts, but I asked myself "What are you going to do with this stuff? It's never going to show and it's going to be one more dust catcher on the shelf."

Reality really takes all the fun out of art.

Next time you're bored, Google "Warhammer", there are a lot of sites with photo's of "armies". Some of these folks are really talented.

Thank you sweetina

     This blog was started for me by my darling girlfriend, she knew I'd been blue lately and figured a creative outlet (and possibly some positive input) might help. 

     I love her to pieces, she's just the sweetest thing in the world, 

but I have no idea what to do with a blog. 

     I can write some, but I'm not overly inclined to tuck pointless sociopolitical rants away in some corner of the internet. 

My wildlife photography has slowed considerably since the camera died, most of the sculpture you'll see is two decades old, and the vids are becoming redundant.

     I guess I'm just not the blogger type.

They Claim "You Can't Build A Better Mousetrap"

...because they know Mother Nature will only build a better mouse.