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A short photo blog.

Figurines by Niki

Excavator

I made this figurine for a birthday cake somewhere in Mt Isa, QLD. Mt Isa is a big mining town and this is a small mining figurine :) Also included some progress shots for anyone interested in how it came together.

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All glue guns are born equal, right?

WRONG! Different glue guns are absolutely not equal, despite the fact that all they do is melt glue and push it forward. You'd think this was an easy enough task and what could possibly go wrong if you get the cheapest one from the supermarket?

These are things that don't go wrong when you invest in a better glue gun:
• The glue and tip don't heat up above the necessary temperature and so you are less likely to burn yourself,
• the glue cuts off more cleanly instead of creating webs all over the place like translucent non-cheesy mozarella,
• there is no strange burning smell,
• the trigger actually pushes the glue forward instead of just vaguely attempting it.

There you have it. The advantages of paying a bit more for a decent glue gun.

Skies

hooray! for we are

Escape Together

Guess I should post something in case my one million viewers and I myself start disbelieving that I will actually follow through with the 'resolution' below.

The Return of the Sproutmonster

Since we got back from Europe I've been itching to make art and swimming in pools of ideas but this has been conflicting with massive doses of cynicism because I've been seeing the trends in contemporary commercial art and the majority of it is bullshit. All people want to buy are pictures of vintage birds with antlers on a white background and so that is what all the market stall holders are making. I've been doing birds with antlers on white backgrounds since I was in highschool seven years ago but apparently it's trendy now so it's become totally devoid of charm or meaning and makes people go 'awwww' then they forget about it thirty seconds later.

I've decided to try and go back to 2008, because that is when I made art most often, and when I freely combined different media; something which I have never done before or since. It was short like my attention span. The best part was that it was meaningless and disassociated and only for myself.

It was when I was doing this stuff. There will now be more. Stay tuned.


There will probably still be birds in it.

I might move to tumblr...