http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:phantomspaceman&section=today deviantART RSS for by:phantomspaceman en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:53:05 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://phantomspaceman.deviantart.com/journal/24021778/ http://phantomspaceman.deviantart.com/journal/24021778/ Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:23:02 PDT
Nothing new in real art, though... just sketches (though I'm lucky if I can even get decent sketches out these days.) Maybe some new photos coming.. and I need to take a picture of "Rice Paddy" so I can put it up here. Should've taken a picture when I finished. Oh well.

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And the merciful goddess costume is proving to be quite the caterpillar in my buttermilk. what with it's pain in the ass and all... i've already logged 32 hours on it, and i have like, one ring of hemp and half of the top attached. glarg. and its all hand-stitching. but... it'll be worth it when it's done, and far out-ranks all other goddess costumes! so there!

This should be me now: so I'm going to try to pull some writing out of my ass before an angry mob comes after me. Wish me luck!

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And oh god, was it hell! That robe took 154 hours. One-Hundred and Fifty-Four!!! That's... wait.. just a sec... six and a half days of straight work! No breaks, no sleep! That chest thing took almost thirty hours... I spent a good ten hours trying to figure out how to attach the leather facing to the rest of it... I'm just glad I'm a problem-solver.

The sutra is... not my best work. But it looks a helluva lot better than the craft-paper ones I've seen... and I think I did really well on the calligraphy. You can't see it in the picture, but... it's not horrible.

Still gotta fix the problems with the arm-warmers. You see, me and my friend had found these rubber frame circle things, but when I tried my original idea... no go. Apparently super glue doesn't STICK to rubber. I'm thinking of trying something with like, flexi-sculpey or rubber tubing (which was my original idea).

But ne who... now, I have to focus on my Merciful Goddess costume. Mother-f*@#&g joy.

]]> ~phantomspaceman http://phantomspaceman.deviantart.com/journal/20130497/ http://phantomspaceman.deviantart.com/journal/20130497/ Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:53:25 PDT And I'm almost done with the stupid bamboo thing! All I have to do now is wait for the urethane to dry so I can assemble it! And then I can finish the sutra once that stupid gddmn fabric marker gets here.

Also, I ordered some chinchilla feathers (don't sound right, do it?)so I can finish "Stormy Weather." lolz.. I think it's kinda funny that the Inuyasha Club added it to their faves... It DOES look like him,though! I can't deny it!

Yeah, and I might be posting some more cloud pics--I can't help it! I've been obsessed with clouds since I was a child. They're fleeting, and cirrus/cirrostratus clouds are beautiful! My favourite clouds are cirrostratus undulatus (you know, the ones that look like waves in the sky--looks like a friggin' ocean scene!) but they don't happen often, and usually when they do, I'm without a camera. (sigh)

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Last night, my moonflower bloomed for the first time!!! I was so FRIGGIN' happy!!! I had to comemmorate the occasion! Unfortunately, they only last for one night, so it's all shriveled up now... TT.TT but hopefully, it'll seed so I can have more next year!

And I took some pictures of this gorgeous white gladiola in my garden... it was just too pretty in the moonlight. How could I not?

My roses should start blooming again soon.. I didn't get any pictures the first time... which is sad, because they were GORGEOUS... but it was incredibly, IMPOSSIBLY rainy, and they got all wilted and stuff...

but yeah.

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'kay, so I just dug up some pics that I took last fall and put them up here, and two of them got faved in like, ten minutes of putting them up! I almost cried! So happy!

I finished that C/C piece and a bunch of other enameled pieces. Unfortunately, I have to give the kiln back. Damn. Love that thing...

And I have a LOT of soldering to do... gotta say, not that big a fan of soldering.

oh, and for future reference--pennies dating later than 1982 contain Zinc, and therefore, will get completely f-ed up in a kiln. Also, seashells. Never do seashells in a kiln. Words of the wise.

]]> ~phantomspaceman http://phantomspaceman.deviantart.com/journal/19735293/ http://phantomspaceman.deviantart.com/journal/19735293/ Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:20:02 PDT And I was able to finish that sakura-flower piece that's been fired more times than I can remember. It was actually the very first piece that I fired. And it is my favourite. Go figure.
But, I got some diamond flux, so I think I'll have a bit a fun with that.

AND, I finished a pendant, and the basis for a couple other pendants, but not only does my camera suck and my scanner make all my pieces blurry, but... well, that's it. And, I finally got my bails, so I have some soldering to do.

And, I FINALLY broke in the kiln enough to where I can get that pretty gold color on the copper, so I'm just a happy little clam!

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NEWho...

I'm working on a lot of enameled pieces right now. I've got the high school's enameling kiln because the wicked super awesome art teacher (who is a good friend of mine) let me borrow it for the summer! I've got a few half-finished pieces, that apparently Deviant won't let me upload right now. Probably doing like, maintenance or something.

I should finish that painting I've started... The one of the rice paddy sketch in my scraps. It's about... half-way done. But I'm still fighting my three-year artist's block/burnout/whatever the hell this is.

And right now, I'm also working on finishing the costumes that I was supposed to have finished a year ago... thank god my friend is understanding. And resourceful. And quick-thinking.

But yeah. That's that, for now.
I should probably go to sleep.

Peace.

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