Fun Weekend

[ltmurnau]

This Saturday was the Luminara festival,and my angler fish were quite a hit. Most little kids identified it as "that deep-sea fish that almost ate Nemo", though, which kind of saddened me in the way that Disney references usually do.

Here are two pictures I took of them before the festival:



I put a glowstick in the eye sockets, and a small glowstick in the wire thingy, so they looked quite nice. And yes, while walking around at night I was careful to keep them at about childs'-eye-height. I did manage to stick a couple of pushy old grannies with the sharp fins, heh.

Sunday I spent working on the shade structure for Burning Man, and I came up with something that ought to stand up (but probably not to a real storm) and be kind of shady and nifty looking:





I really, really need a set of three 12-foot folding tent poles though - you know the kind, the ones with the shock cord inside. I have only six and I don't trust them.

Comments

[ilna.livejournal.com]

I thought of Nemo too when i saw it..

..but only after that : when i was a kid, my granddad used to have a dictionnary (and a very old one at that) in which there was a page with all these fishes from the real deep. The page was titled Créatures des Abysses and their names were greek and latin and ferocious. It's more or less one of the pages where i learnt to read - i was really fascinated with them :)

Yours are beautifully crafted nad they convey just the proper feeling (espec. the first one) :)

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Thank you! When I was a kid we had a set of books about nature and science, with some great illustrations. I pored over them and I always remembered the pictures of the deep sea fish with the huge mouths and sharp teeth. That's where these come from. (I like the first one best, too.)

[cherdt.livejournal.com]

Last year for our Burning Man theme camp, the United States Potsal Service, mrrranda created a papier-mache mailbox in the form of a deep sea angler. I don't know if I have a photograph anywhere, though.

We saw a lecture at the university last year from an artist who was in charge of illustrations for a set of encyclopedias covering animal life. He had a photograph of a deep sea angler specimen that was sent to him to draw from--it was about about a centimeter long. Not a particularly frightening example, in spite of the shape! Yet I've read that they can grow to be a meter or more, which would be more than a little disturbing when seen up close.

[cherdt.livejournal.com]

I finally found the photo of Mrrranda's anglerfish mailbox.

[nocturnalmuse.livejournal.com]

I love the anglerfish, they turned out wonderfully. The tins were the perfect material, I was really curious how they'd look.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Sorry we missed you at Luminara. It was fun but the crowds were a bit much after a while. You'd think it was the only thing like it happening in Victoria all year... oh wait, it is....

[rrhexis.livejournal.com]

I like the fish.
I want to go to Burning Man--saw a story abt it three years ago on a PBS show called, "Egg."

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad!
Burning Man: you should go, or at least look into it. It's not for everyone, but if it's for you, you will know and you'll love it.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

(...sorry, that sounds really pretentious and elitist, I don't mean it that way)

[inkie.livejournal.com]

Awesome fish! A whole group of them (in my mind anyways) would make a neat mobile.