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DANISH RAZORBACK NIGHTMARE SLUG.

In the depths of a the forest I stooped for a seed pod but it was the heinous DANISH RAZORBACK NIGHTMARE SLUG.

This hulking, muscular brute of a slug has muscles you can see and behaves like a grizzly bear, but 3 inches long and screaming hell freaking black, its body is covered in faux tentacle hair that looks like a drowned rat dipped in viscous sump oil.

It Moves fast when disturbed and with confident, mammalian movements.
As I touch it ,it hunches into a semicircle and flexes its armless shoulder muscles side to side, "This defensive behaviour confuses predators, and is unique in the Arionidae family."

Reading scientific articles on this monster only extends the horror to new climes.



It eats leaves and CARRION, covers itself in a thick "FOUL TASTING MUCOUS" and secretes a GRANULATED CALCIFEROUS liquid shell.

it can fertilize itself.

It is currently involved in a self perpetuated mating programme with the non-native species Arion vulgaris, which has resulted in a "MORE RESILIENT HYBRID"

In the 18thC Danes used slugs to grease the axles in their carts.

Denmark

Sunrise in the sky, somewhere above holland. 

It was queer being above the rising sun.

 

Canals in Amsterdam. Just a visit to the airport unfortunately.

We were set up in a large abandoned warehouse near a soybean and fart-smell factory. Nice place, but no water, toilets, or heating. Very cool though.

 COUNTER is assembled from 3 ragged battered pieces dragged from the shipping container, and so the epic painting, sanding, filling begins.

 It took about three long days (Jetlag wakes us at 7, it gets dark about 900). The Danes work on daylight saving hours, but don't change the clocks.

 Beautiful packaging from Japan.

Very envious of "ship, unwrap, install" works at this point.

 Some kind of Druidic, planet destroying orbital ion cannon structure accompanied by assorted whale-bones.

In situ, (one of the first sculptured out.) 

The beach is behind me, on the right, COUNTER third from the 'start' where the containers are.

Testin Testin.

Todays test. 2 of 8 nodes. Ready to mount on rods for ease of assembly.

 Design/Development

The stand i designed should it be needed in the center of a space.

 Slow progress on the ugly insides.

I also found my first mockup from a uv unwrap. Looks easy huh :C

Sharks etc

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For a verbatim punchup.

I mangled all the heads off a typewriters hammers. I want to mount them into a bling ring or brass knuckles. They will be pinned in nicely and be re-arrangable (for a punchy punch line) (ouch).

Thinking copper laminated to white or clear perspex with rubberized inset holes to grip in the text blocks. Will design for CNC router. It will be in a niiiice little box with foam letter slots and a little space for the bling.

.... if i ever get around to it.

 

Also: 

http://michael.schlenzig.dk/blog/shoot-stab-then-punch/

This is not a joke (?) 1800's Belgian 'self defence'

Geneva Cam-tastic

Am making with newfound skills in VCARVE for the SWARFoMAT CNC router. 

My own variation (top) almost ready to cut

Next?

 

**Gurgle**

A job for the 3d printer I think.

(i found this one on the internet.)

These will be nice mounted displays for totemic sculptures, it gears down motors and looks cool and is hopefully quite hardy.

SuperSensory

DeepSea,
a prototype game with NO GRAPHICS.

You wear a sensory deprivation mask and the game pipes your own breathing back to you as if you are in a pressure suit.

As I understand it you walk around blindly and the closer you are to danger the radio chatter gets more and more freaky, babbling about something they cannot kill, screaming for help, searching.



THE UNFINISHED SWAN

You navigate a featureless white world with paintballs as your eyes.

It is slightly foreboding.. messages sometimes appear on the floor.

I can imagine it being TERRIFYING as a hunter/hunted tag arena...

Click link for videos.

FEZ

Not the first mind bending 2.5D platformer, but it looks fun enough.


Click Link for videos

Didgeridoo apocolypse

Screen project

   

Test 1, Filled with expandable foam.

All pieces cut out (14 pieces x 9...) and edges are sanded straight and rounded.

 Held with tape, can be flipped and put in clay support.

 A bead of liquid nails keeps the fibreglass resin from leaking through and marring the surface.

Fiberglass is applied and dried, reinforcing the angles and structural strength..

Outside is sanded flat, joints are filled with filler, cured and then re sanded.

I am now testing paints and surfaces.

Next the pieces will need mounting, tessellating, joining and reflective aluminum added.

Despite losing the original 3d model and plans it seems to be progressing well.

I have 6 at painting stage, not bad for 6 days, Fiberglass takes altogether too long to set.

Space is scary