Short Trip to October

Thanks, Ravyn, for posting these photos. I packed up the refurbished roller coaster cars to go out with me tomorrow. On Friday, they'll be attached to new trucks on the coaster to resume journeys up and down, round and back, in and out and nearly sideways, very fast.
I look at them and know they still have stories to tell.

It'll be a short trip for Ben and me, time-wise, but a visit to the carnival always leaves one slightly changed, don't you think? And, when we get back to the desert, it will be October.


See you then.

Dancer detail

Little Old Girl

Mistress Kitty

Grim with Lollypop

Water, Art, Music, Poppets on Tour

Orion's suit arrived. The water is getting pretty chilly.
We, however, are not! I'm thinking, it's really good to try to swim as much of the year as possible. If I do this every day, I (in theory) will be able to keep doing it, even when I'm very old, assuming fairly good health. I like that idea. I could join the Polar Bears at sixty five. It's a thought.


I'll be participating in the Creature Features "October Shadows" event Oct 13 - Nov 1. Thank you, Lorraine, Malena and Miles, for the invitation! I'm looking forward to meeting some very cool and talented artists.


My friend and sort-of ex-neighbor Michael is touring the UK with his band, Jack Saints Tour Schedule. If they're passing through your neighborhood, you can check them out. Or just open your window. You might hear them.

Very extremely obscenely early on Thursday morning, Ben and I will leave for the Dark Caravan Carnival in Virgina. Poppets are coming with us and we plan to do our very own verson of P. O.T. It will be fun for us, and later, fun for you too. At least, that is the evil plan.

Now, I must get back to work!!!

g'night

POT in Vancouver

Poppet On Tour: Vancouver, courtesy of Rubius. What's the story here? Do Poppets speak Cat? That's right...good kitty...just look into the light...

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Warm Water Images

Mimi Ko sent me a disk full of amazing images. You've possibly seen this one of Orion. Here are two more from the same day of shooting. (scroll down)

I look forward to working with her again.

I really like her sense of composition and emotion.

Sparks

Ben is back indeed. Lots of studio work today. Next week, we leave for the DC area to install the re-trucked cars onto "Short Trip to October", the roller coaster of Dark Caravan. While there, we'll do a bit of maintenance on the other carnival rides too. And who knows what else might happen.
It's highly likely that lots of photos will be taken.

Close up.

The End of Summer

Last week a wind storm forced us to do an 'emergency strike' on the canopies that have protected the pool/patio from the sun. I left a c-clamp on a deck chair and discovered today that the sun had done a bit of photo-trickery.
Still, I know summer is over. But not swimming. I took my wetsuit out of storage and ordered a new one for the Orion.
We will not go quietly into the dry.

POT in Norway

Poppets on Tour

Poppet contemplates wonders in a Norwegian forest. This one from Jan, who has a new website up at www.janruneblom.com.

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Sweet Dreams...

Sweet Dreams...

This is the fruit of my late night. It's a painting on the inside wall of the kinetic fortune teller sculpture Ben and I are making. It will be the last piece of the Dark Caravan, which I'll be able to show you in detail soon. I'll be visiting the carnival in about a week and will take lots of photos. We hope the fortune teller will be ready for the World Fantasy Convention. I'm not sure there's enough coffee on the planet to help me do the other side tonight. But actually, it wasn't so much the coffee as the music.

In the meantime, there's a chapter on Dark Caravan hereBudPlant.com -- GREAT FANTASY ART THEMES FROM THE FRANK COLLECTION. It's a beautiful book. Eventually, Paper Tiger (or someone) may see the wisdom in making the Dark Caravan carnival a book on its own.

Now it's truly morning. g'night

Tired Puppies

Mattie Brahen sent me this photo from the WorldCon. Thanks, Mattie, says Orion too.

Poppets and scary, scary sheep...

Poppets are poppets.
They are not perky and, costume or not, they never forget what color they are underneath,
nor that I'm their creator, but certainly not their mommy.

I don't forget that either.

I got home to find a gift from Ben on my desk--a net bag of ladybugs that are now, (with a little help from you know who )ready to be art. Ben loves me.

Last night I watched a tape of Ann Coulter's Q and A for the Claire Booth Luce Policy Institute.
For a little while I thought I'd seen the true face of evil. Then I decided this was the stupidest "smart" person I've ever seen. After that I decided it didn't matter whether Ann Coulter is stupid or evil.
Because I noticed the audience.
I'm thinking Stepford scary. Hair-standing -up -on- my -neck -Stepford -scary. These are the people Ann Coulter commands to "embrace the liberal hate" and "I want you to all go out and be teachers." They drink it in like sweet, sweet Kool-aid.

It's not a long leap to imagine a couple of these fixed-pupil neophytes in towers with rifles.

I especially enjoyed hearing Coulter's case against Darwinism. Then, what do I know? I majored in Biology, which, according to Coulter, isn't a real science, uh, until she needs to quote a biologist.

I'd like to make Ann Coulter a costume...

Sheesh.

By the way (hi Rebecca! xoxo) I'm not perky either.