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A Bottega Of One‘s Own
Ok, so I‘ve been reading a lot about the Rennaissance lately, due to my interest in the non-Ninja Leonardo ;-)
And in my readings I‘ve discovered that the 15th century Italian word for “workshop“ is bottegaA Renaissance artist‘s workshop strikes me as being very similar to a modern SFX shop - they could be called on to build just about anything and ( Read more... ) -
Good fandoms don't die....
... they just go fallow for awhile.
So I've seen The Amazing Spider-Man twice now and each time I see it I come out grinning ear to ear. And wanting more Spidey - immediately ( Read more... ) -
Saga Of The Stick Bugs Part 2 - What a Handsome Boy!
So I mentioned in my last post, that my oldest Northern Walking Stick, Pan, is now officially an adult.
I kept missing seeing my stick bugs start the molting process (sometimes I missed the whole thing, including the consuming of the old skin, and the only way to know they had molted was that they were suddenly bigger) but I DID finally witness ( Read more... ) -
Saga Of The Stick Bugs Update, Part 1 WITH PICS!
Last time I posted about the "Twigs" on LJ I had 4 baby stick bugs, the oldest of which, Pan, had just molted for the first time. Well as of two days ago, Pan is now a fully adult Northern Walking Stick (AND, it turns out a boy, not a girl ( Read more... ) -
OMG - they did it!
They did it!
I was scared at first but they pulled it off!
Jason Segel wrote a love letter to the Muppets!
The new movie is great, fantastic... wait, those aren't the right words. It's sensational! Inspirational! Celebrational! MUPPETATIONAL! :D
I'd been scared because Muppet humour is so hard to get right.
Play it too goofy and dumb and it ( Read more... ) -
Where's my Walking Stick?
No, no I kid. Ofelia didn't get out of her terrarium ( Read more... ) -
Blue Beetle Blues
So my newest fandom if you haven't been seeing all the squeeing on FB is one Blue Beetle (technically Blue Beetle III, teenage Jaime Reyes). Problem is his solo comic series got cancelled a while back meaning once I'd blasted through all the issues there wasn't any more ( Read more... )
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