More Qualified Success...

I'm pleased with these two creations...
They're not the way I imagined them before they existed but have developed their own unique....
....errrr...?
Something, or other:
The Plaster Doll's Head

The Golden Bowl

I had intended having another go at a verdigris effect on the bowl but decided against it as I didn't want to sod it up...

Outa_Spaceman Being: 52 vs. Neural Circus: White Rabbit...

The Jefferson Airship song from the 1967 album 'Surrealistic Pillow...
I haven't heard 'The Great Society's' version which pre-dates the J.A. version but it's on my 'to do' list....

All I can say of the subject matter is it's great to dip into but don't make it into a life-style...
(Same goes for L.S.D...)

p.s. Can't wait for the version of GTA with the 'Hooker smoking catapiller' in it...

Ongoing...

A quick round up of ideas I've been messing about with over the last couple of days:
No. 1: The Wooden Box File/ Verdigris Finish...
Not a racing success if I'm honest...
I should have used a darker base colour...
I stuck a couple of pictures to the facing end and started coating them in lacquer which didn't really work either..


On the up side...
Linda says it looks like I've painted a forest scene from the film 'The House of Flying Daggers' on it...
No. 2: The Atomic Biscuit Tin...

Nearly a success...
It's more like a biscuit safe in reality as I can't get the lid off...
So, qualified success all round then...

Outa_Spaceman Being: 52 vs. Neural Circus: Ghost Riders In The Sky...

By the time I'd remember that I'd intended recording 'Rawhide' this track was finished:

For lots of obscure technical reasons, this is probably the best of the current bunch of recordings...
Having said that, there's still some way to go before I've got the process completely right...
Any way, next stop Rawhide (hell bent for leather indeed, tsk, tsk....)

John Baker's VCS3 on Ebay....

This Wednesday I will set aside my dignity and buy a lottery ticket, win and buy this piece of electronic music history:
EBay Link To VCS3
or...
I'll just continue using this:
Le Synthe
Which just isn't the same...

Manly Pursuits No. 3: Painting Cast Iron With Hammerite In The Rain....

Another couple of jobs jobbed...

How Things Happen....

I have a china doll's head I want to reproduce as a garden ornament...
I set about creating a latex mould:

After three coats of latex I had a mould then discovered I didn't have enough plaster to make the whole head...
Not a problem...
I mixed up what plaster I had, poured in into the mould then hung it up so I'd at least get the facial features:

(I can't help thinking 'scrotum' for some reason...)
After de-moulding, I have a head, of sorts:

After a bit of painting I have something that Linda absolutely refuses to let me put in the garden:


I don't see the problem...

Linda's Discarded Drawings....

Linda is very dismissive of her ability to draw...
I'm astounded by it...
I found these two sketches in a pile of papers I was taking to the bin...

Framed and heading for my shed...

O.S.M. Ind: Wall Clock....

I've finally got round to finishing off this clock:

It's been hung on the wall of my 'lab' for around two years now and, along with everything else in the lab, is about to be transfered to my shed so had to be finished (by 'finished' I mean gluing lots of Sculpey bits of my own manufacture on it...)
On closer inspection I feel I should maybe have let Linda do the drawing bit on the face...

Sundry Mortifications No. 12: Woodwork...

I don't have any difficulty with large woodwork projects (gates, raised bed planters etc.) but work on a smaller scale needs a lot more practice on my part...
I started out making a cube from firework sticks I've found on the beach...
I measured everything carefully, twice, took my time over cutting the joints and I still ended up having to glue several rhomboids together...

Manly Pursuits No.2: Making Fire...

To be fair, Linda is marginally better at lighting the fire than I am...
I think it has something to do with the diesel she uses....

Nine Things Any Sensible Person Should Have About Them At All Times...

01) Articulated Boot Choker
02) Deafening Extrasensory Funnel
03) Granulated Horse Ink
04) Jiggery-pokery Kettle
05) Lapwing Mallet
06) Notched Offal Pump
07) Questionable Revolving Snorkel
08) Triangular Undergrowth Ventilator
09) Wretched X-Ray Yogurt Zipper

Tiny Enid in a Cart, Drawn by Turkeys....

Under normal circumstances I would have dispatched this picture, via pneumatic funnel, to Mr. Key at Hooting Yard but I suspect he turns pale whenever he opens the in-chute to find it crammed with inconsequential nonsense from me...
So, here she is, Tiny Enid the heroic adventuress using an environmentally responsible, and delicious, method of transport:

Outa_Spaceman Being:52 vs. Neural Circus: Daisy Bell (feat. HAL 9000)

The old music-hall song 'Daisy Bell' (composed by Harry Dacre in 1892 and probably better known as 'Daisy, Daisy') has a 'history' with computers...
It was the first song 'sung' by a computer, the I.B.M. 704, in 1962...
For me the most memorable rendition is by H.A.L. 9000 as he slowly has his brains removed in Stanley Kubrick's 2001....

The basis of my version is, once again, the Stylophone Beat Box...
I sampled a small music box for the harmony instrument and added a touch of Mellotron to give the second verse a lift...

Gotta go now, Linda and me gotta waltz...!

Update:
Now available for download here:
Daisy Bell

O.S.M. Ind: Decorated Wooden Box File....

Occasionally Linda insists that we visit IKEA...
I can, usually, manage to pass through the various exciting furniture purchasing opportunity departments unscathed...
I enjoy visiting the restaurant and the meatballs n 'taters noshing...
My downfall is always the 'Market Place'...
"Oh, wooden things 6 for a pound..."
"Oh, a throw (we don't use throws).."

I went through a period of buying wooden box files (I now prefer 'proper' box files) and have accumulated quite a few that live, unused, in the attic...

They're perfect candidates for some experimentation with finishes and decoration...
The first experiment involves a coat of old tea, a coat of iron oxide, some rub-down floral transfers and a final polish with bees wax:


That went well and nobody had to die...
I think I'll try 'verdigris' next...

Linda Paintings...

I was so impressed by the St. Valentine's day card Linda produced I nagged and nagged and nagged until she did a 'proper' version of it....
Here it is on canvas:

Linda also painted a bonus picture for me:

Linda can also 'do fingers'....

RailWorks - Ryde Pier Head to Ryde Esplanade

I just have to recommend Spongebag44's YouTube Channel...
His Open BVE trips are wonderful...

O.S.M. Ind: Clockwork Toy...

Taking a break form my musical endevours, I constructed a clockwork toy:

Now I need to find an infant to test it on...

St. Valentine's Day 2010....

We two are one against the world...

Somebody Loves Me...