Archive for December, 2007

If one has skills…

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

…if one has skills, one could make the slums bloom with no money at all, simply by work and skills.— George Nakashima

The Family Portrait

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

For Christmas this year, I commissioned Len Peralta of monsterbymail.com to do our family portraits. He did a wonderful job - a wonderfully gruesome job! I built a frame to finish it out and presented it to Amy Christmas morning. It was a fun present, certainly an unexpected one.
I detailed the frame [...]

Fido: The Movie

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

I spent the evening with Jeff and Amanda and friends watching a zombie flick. We saw “Fido,” a selection brought to us by Ted. The movie isn’t your classic zombie flick, but it’s a classic of another sort. Carrie-Anne Moss played the mild-mannered house wife, typical of our 1950’s. The whole [...]

Gävlebocken (The Gävle Goat)

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

In a small city north of Stockholm, 5,000 onlookers welcome a giant Goat as it is unveiled each year around Yule. For several decades now, the Gävle Goat has made a historical mark in Gävle history as it is either sacrificed or spared during the Winter.
In 1969 the goat was burned on New Year’s [...]

2010: An Alice Oddessey

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Clear your calendars for 2010. Tim Burton is making an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland beginning in May 2008. It’s currently scheduled for release in 2010, so it may actually be too early to put together solid plans.
I haven’t heard much, but I know it’s supposed to be animated 3D - not quite [...]