February 21, 2008 at 8:11 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: book, dark_tower_series, Ectomo, glue, house, origami, paper, papercraft, pattern, photos, picture, stephen king, wallpaper, wastelands ·
Creative Close up did a post with photos of and links to 100 papercraft ideas. If you’re unfamiliar with the term “papercraft”, it can be defined as: taking a pattern for a 3d object and constructing it entirely out of paper. Not quite like origami, since you are encouraged to cut, glue, and supplement to achieve the final product.
The closest to papercraft I’ve gotten is making a dunce cap by rolling up a sheet of 8.5×11 and taping it. Still, with 100 ideas and resources to pull from, maybe I can move up to something more interesting and advanced. And remember kids, the paste is for putting on the paper, not eating. I know there’s a picture of that smug steer on the bottle, but I promise you Elmer’s is not exactly a delicious burger in liquid format.
Speaking of paper, earlier chesh in #ectomo shared a really great link to some of the prettiest wallpapers I’ve ever seen. I mentioned that it would be super neat if they could make wallpaper that copied the evil elf wallpaper in the house on Dutch Hill from The Wastelands, but I couldn’t find a scan of the art from the book to demonstrate what I meant. Anybody with a handy scanner and whatnot that can hook me up?
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September 25, 2007 at 8:26 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: arnold_schwarzenegger, bad guys, conan_o_brien, dark_tower_series, death, description, Dream Log, dreams, ridiculous ·
Last night I dreamt that I was in a big red house (almost maroon it was so dark) with dark green shutters. The house itself was malevolent, clearly had it in for me and my family. I don’t remember the interior that well, but I’m almost positive I’d dreamed some of it. At some point my family and I were whisked - instantly - away from this vile place, and watched from a great distance as it blew off its foundation and landed on a nearby town. Later on while I was thinking about it, the feeling the house gave me was the same feeling I got when I first read about The Mansion in Dutch Hill in The Dark Tower series. (Which I may have mentioned recently that I have been re-reading.)
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September 4, 2007 at 12:45 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: cephalopod, dark_tower_series, description, Dream Log, dreams, Ectomo, elder_gods, ethereal, gentle_readers, Help the Author, irridescent, Literature, monsters, oddities, sea_creatures, sexual_conduct, symbolic gestures, time_paradox ·
The dream log to follow really isn’t all that suprising to me. I’ve been re-reading The Dark Tower series (Stephen King, I’m on The Waste Lands) and quite frankly I’m probably crazy. The majority is unfortunately already disappearing into the fog of the waking world. A lot of what I do remember is NSFW in nature. That said, a handy cut tag will be employed for those more sensative of my gentle readers.
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