I think he called it a Polaris? Polka? Polack?

George: Dean show me your impression of Margaret Thatcher.
Dean: As I’m sure you’re aware, she was know as the iron… Fist.
CLICK

More pics here http://2litresofsoysaucecom.blogspot.ca/2014/11/groaning-like-beached-walrus-while.html?m=1

Ana and Marc have carvings of pigs and spoons all over their apartment. The pigs because Izu has some sort of famous local wild boar delicacy (as far as I gleaned from not really paying attention to anything anyone said ever.) And the spoons because Marc has taken up a fascination with woodworking and… I dunno… I guess woodcarvers like spoons or something? Again… just guesswork on my part. Pretty sure Ana made at least one of them.

(typhoon outside, hence the hair.)

So I carved a tiny pig and spoon out of chunks of scrap wood he had chipped off of other projects.

Pig is about toonie-sized, which makes the spoon more like… a half-matchstick?

Not Sure what the deal with the little pan is, sortof looks hand-cast… I wonder if he’s got a forging fascination happening as well? Probably. Seems like the sort of lame thing he’d be into.

In Japan they have this stamp thing they do. When you go to a tourist spot or a train station, and you look around a bit, you can usually find a little pedestal with a rubber stamp and inkpad on it. They’re super great. I found as many as I could while I was there.

I realized, I could probably hand-make a stamp. That’s probably a thing people do.

So I bought one of these.

It’s a gigantic 4×6 inch white vinyl eraser. (it actually is)

And some of these to carve it.

I really like this picture of Robert Oppenheimer jumping from Philippe Halsman’s jump book.
http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2007/10/jump.html (incidentally if you ever see a copy of it and you want to get me a birthday present, you’d win the best friend ever prize.)

So I spent a couple hours in Photoshop tracing and I came up with this.

Then I printed that out, traced it onto onion paper, and then rubbed that kindergarten etching style onto my eraser block.

Trimmed it down

And started carving

Tried a test Stamping

Tightened some stuff up.

And tried again

I dunno I think it’s pretty neat. The Vinyl’s a little too soft to hold the fine detail I’d like. I’ll try some lino next time or something. All in all pretty good for a first crack.

Gabrielle has a keyboard.

We have a tiny apartment.

Gabs wants an art desk, so I built this.

Note my fine Aluminum craftsmanship.  (Hey… It’s my first time ever even really using my drill, countersink bit, AND tap… cut me some slack.)

Can’t scratch the floor though.

I hear what you’re saying. “Dean… that’s just a hunk of garbage and not, in fact, a desk”

What if I put it HERE though? 

See.  totally a desk.

Still don’t get it?  ok… well… what if I show you this board with some wall hooks on it?

Yeah. that’s right. you get it now. 

Because the front rests on the keyboard stand.

And it’s carefully fabricated to miss all of the bits of the keyboard.\

 “But Dean, don’t you store your Bass under the keyboard? won’t the supports for the frame eliminate that possibility?”

My friend, I think of all of these eventualities and custom-build my furniture with just such a situation in mind.

“Well that’s a pretty cool desk… What’s with the other bar and extra hooks junking stuff up though?”

PORTRAIT MODE, SON.

The Following is a list of Comic Book Movies I vaguely recall seeing ordered on the entirely subjective “Favorite-to-Worst” scale. Link me to yours! (note: I don’t remember any of the superman movies really… other than the latest one)

Edit: I’m going to republish this every time I see a new Comic Movie

Scott Pilgrim
Iron Man
Guardians of the Galaxy
300
Ghost World
Batman:Mask of the Phantasm
Spider-Man 2
Dredd (Urban)
Constantine (what can I say, I love tilda swinton)
The Dark Knight
Hellboy 2
The Avengers
Iron Man 3
Thor: The Dark World
The Amazing Spider-Man
Thor
Kickass
Batman Begins
Hellboy
Spider-Man
Incredible Hulk
Sin City
Captain America
Watchmen
Iron Man 2
X-men:Days of Future Past
Tank Girl
American Splendor
Howard the Duck
History of Violence
X-Men: First Class
Batman:the movie (adam west)
V for Vendetta
Road to Perdition
30 Days of Night
Cowboys and Aliens
Ghostrider:Spirits of Vengeance
———–above this line was a great movie below this line was a wash———-
The Crow
Amazing Spider-man 2
The Mask
Wolverine
Punisher: War Zone
X-Men
Batman
X-men 2
Punisher (Dolph Lundgren) (It still makes me laugh.)
Superman Returns
Spider-Man 3 (if they didn’t try to cram venom into it, this would probably rank way higher)
Hulk (Ang lee: beautiful film… but… Poodles and worst bad guy ever? really?)
Man of Steel
Green Lantern
X-men 3
Electra
Judge Dredd (stallone)
Captain America: Winter Soldier
DareDevil
Virus
Batman Returns
———–Hated the stuff below this line———-
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Catwoman
The Spirit
Spawn
Batman and Robin
Batman Forever
Punisher (John Travolta)
Fantastic Four
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
GhostRider
Fantastic Four 2