The crazed dancing woman needed a prop to go along with the Dr. Who Tardis backdrop that I created back in November. So out comes the acrylics, a bit of foam core and after a few hours work, voila, one Dalek. He’s just under five foot high and weighs next to nothing, thanks to the foam core. A triangular piece of foam core hot glued to the back with linen strips helps it to stand upright and then fold flat for transport and storage. He will be showing up at various burlesque and belly dancing shows and I refuse to be responsible for any mass destruction behavior on it’s part.
Dalek dance prop
During a recent inventory in the storage rooms at the Mausonian Museum, a new specimen has been brought to light after over a century and half of being hidden. This specimen was originally from a dig in central Turkey circa 1853-1854.
The initial evaluation showed the fossilized skull and neck bones of a primitive batrachian specie. The rest of the specimen was believed to be intact but there was a fair amount of obscuring matrix that needed to be removed. Cleaning began and eventually the bulk of the specimen began to reveal itself. A weak solution of acetic acid was applied to help remove the more difficult limestone deposits encasing the smaller bones of the right wrist when a large flake cracked and lifted off. A dark staining of the stone was noted and cleaning proceeded to eventually reveal an elongated fifth metacarpal bordering the dark edge. The dark stain was in fact a wing membrane. The world’s first specimen of a winged amphibian had been discovered!
As time goes on, more unusual creatures from the earths past are coming to light. This may be the first of a very strange group of prehistoric creatures that established paleontology is likely to have a bit of trouble categorizing.
HAPPY NEW YEAR and the best of whatever it is that you seek for yourself in 2010! Yep, I know it is a bit past the new year but Life has a way of sticking her fingers in my pudding and messing things up. The least of Her meddling lately is a broken rib incurred from sword fighting. I am just going to have to learn to protect myself better! Anyway, the following is a list of the events that I am going to be involved with in the next couple of months. If you are attending, please come on by and say hello!
January 15-17 Arisia 2010 Cambridge, Ma……art show
January 29-30 Birka Market, SCA, Manchester NH……fencing
February 5-7 Templecon, Warwick, RI………..art show, puppet performance, CoC game
February 12-14 Boskone 47, Boston, MA………art show
February 26, Odditoruium, Canbridge, MA……..puppet performance.
The February 26th date at the Odditorium show will be the debut of my new poem called Ten Pound Lafitte. It’s a rousing story about a chef and an unwilling frog. Terrance and Grimpen will be doing the performance.
Hope to see y’all about!