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

[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.