Do you understand why this card is so hilarious?
Perverse appositeness, deadpan delivery and careless execution, it's intended for a pair from Boston. I'm imagining should anyone hear them reading it aloud cracking up. More.
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four ewes pop-up card
pop-up card, sheep
Klang.
Etude. An attempt to get two central folds, which this does. The thing about this is, I had a paper towel tube smashed flat. Then smashed it again so the two folds lined up, one atop the other, which turned the tube with a round hole into a tube with a square hole. I noticed how it could go flat and imagined something glued to the side. Imagined a sheep. I'm not gonna use this particular card, but I will use the idea. This card just shows me how well or not the idea works. I learned anything standing up has to be short. The sheep need to be reworked, they're completely unsplendid. I go through a lot of card stock, reams of it with carefree undisciplined abandon.
Don't you hate it when your felt tips go dry? I had six of those things somewhere, now I'm down to one, and it's dry. That makes me insane, so out of insanity I bought a huge pack of them, there's like 24 in a box and two boxes taped together, and man, do they ever put out the black. I could completely cover a white card in black and not even think, "you should have used black stock."
party fish pop-up card
How this came about in 21 photographs and no words. Although, I suppose I should mention, those are my hands, photographed, printed, then photographed again in these pictures holding up the printed pictures of themselves. Very Escheresque over there.
The card features two tables, one of my favorite mechanisms. One table is one inch high and the other table is two inches high. In the world of pop-up making, that means one table must be within one inch from edge and the other table must be two inches from the edge, a precision easily enough arrived at by trimming. The two tables intersect and share a post on the card's spine, but not really because the posts are stacked. I'd rather deal with simply what fits within the card than measure things mathematically but it's good to to have an exact size for the posts. This card, if you analyze it, doesn't actually pop up, rather, the posts prevent the leaf from falling flat, forming a table, they simply elevate the leaf above its natural position. Three posts per table, all parallel, the center post along the spine. <--incomplete sentence, but I don't care. The posts are made first. Careful measurements and scoring required for all folds, but oddly, not for cuts. Get all that out of the way right off because the work space gets a bit messy after that. Construction-wise, it all gets down to making the posts exactly.
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ninja
Pole with poo extends.
There's also poo fighting sticks but those are kept in a coffee can outside the doorway as they must be refreshed daily and so are not suitable to hang on the wall.
Clackers
Wrist Rocket
Lawn Darts
Coke with Mentos, you know, the usual accoutrement.
stiltz
Walk'n on hamburgers.
I play pocket pool
Walk'n on hamburgers.
I play pocket pool
Walk'n on hamburgers.
Gaston thought hamburger stilts was a good idea for the squishy extra cushion they provide, but it didn't last.
Lawn Jockey
I love these things. They're so gracious, "The driveway is right here, Sir.", "Mind the gap", "Yo, Dog. Step." "No Sirs, do not approach the house today for we are being covered. Do hasten along, please, until you see one of us with our lamp lit, Godspeed, then. Cheers."
Why I love lawn jockeys so much, especially the black ones.
training film -- gore
Most stoic ex-vice prexident and failed presidential candidate ever.
Understand, dictators at heart seek dictation over things other than mere countries.
Dictation?
lily pond pop-up card
Inspired by a mechanism seen in Sabudo's interpretation of Wizard of Oz. It was one of the little ones that he sticks in the corners to fill out the story and fill up the empty areas of the main pop-ups with something puffy. The scarecrow, precisely. This is how most my cards come out -- a bit overdone. It would be a lot simpler if I'd stop getting carried away, but it always becomes apparent once you're into it how much a thing can be elaborated. And so more, and more, and more to the point where you can't get the thing shut or folded flat and then must fashion a box instead of an envelope. It's sort of come to characterize my style, if I have one, and I suppose an indication of immaturity. On the other hand, drawings never get beyond sketch form,
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