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After three coats of Varathane:

I’ve been noticing my head turning every time I see one of the posters or billboards for the upcoming film, The Dark Knight. This one is KILLIN.

I smell a cult classic. And as for Heath’s Joker, can you say Most Popular Halloween Costume of the Year?

Check out this cool piece by Alan Becker.

Needs four coats total.
One thin coat every day.
Sanding in between.

Missed STP in Vegas a couple weeks ago for last minute reasons. Ended up doing a school night rally the other night here at the Hollywood Bowl. Beautiful night. Wish I had more pics. This is the only one I’ve got, courtesy of Big J.

Decent show, but I have two complaints:

1. No beer poured after 10PM???
2. NO STILL REMAINS???

Been taking a little bit of a break this past week, with a brother from another mother crashing on the couch. The other night I did get a start on touching up the existing floor adjacent to the outside of the piece. I used Minwax Golden Oak 210B, which seems to be working fine. One thing I noticed (read: live and learn) is that some of the wood filler I applied to the crevices on the outside got soaked up by the freshly sanded oak, and subsequently doesn’t take the stain exactly the same way as the real wood. Semi-ugh, but I’ll just consider it one of those disclaimers they tag on wood or leather products declaring that “any imperfections enhance the beauty” of said product.

After this I’ll probably need to sand the edges of the whites, and then it’ll be time to break out the Varathane.

“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.”
– Aristotle

Discovered in a barley field in Wiltshire, the most complex crop circle of all time is a coded representation of the first ten digits of pi: 3.141592654.

Bluh’ee ‘ell, tha’ is fucking cool. I’d like to by those blokes a round of Bass.

(via Telegraph.co.uk)

Snapped this morning on the bluff. The overgrown brush at the close of spring has become a canvas for the creative spiders of the night, with the entire ridge of White Point riddled with web after web after web. Beautiful stuff, particularly in the horizontal morning sunshine.

I tried taking a long view pic to capture dozens of ‘em in one shot, but the cell isn’t capable of catching the detail. So, here are a couple close-ups of their masterpieces.

Love this one. This weekend I spent an evening with Paulie and his wife Gina, the Genius Disney Lighting Effects Queen. Back in their studio she had a clay gargoyle she sculpted.

I would’ve been all over this in the sixth grade. My own personal Middle Ages. I’d read Tolkien, I played Dungeons & Dragons. Some kids played Cowboys & Indians or Army; we’d play the backyard version of D&D, making medieval weapons like flails and maces out of broomsticks and boxing gloves. I even made a shield out of plywood and painted a griffin on it. And yeah, I did a research report on gargoyles, plagiarizing the hell out of the G volume of Encyclopedia Britannica.