Mass Grave

Cellar Dwellers

Workshop Tour

Short video over on Instagram of some props in the basement (framed out the stuff for 2024 [haha])...

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In The Basement

Now Playing: Signal Lost

By Tineidae.

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The Martian Project Sculpture Design Contest

In anticipation of the 85th anniversary of Orson Welles’ infamous radio broadcast in which Martian tripods were said to have landed in West Windsor, West Windsor Arts, in collaboration with the Historical Society of West Windsor, is hosting a sculpture design contest! The winning design will be used to create blank, fiberglass sculptures, which will be given to local artists to decorate, and the designer will win a cash prize of $500.  This creative Martian invasion will be on display at various West Windsor locations during October 2023. 

More information here.

Thanks, Mike!  This is a very cool contest.  My Martian in the basement is showing signs of life.

War

There was something fungoid in the oily brown skin, something in the clumsy deliberation of the tedious movements unspeakably nasty. Even at this first encounter, this first glimpse, I was overcome with disgust and dread.

Suddenly the monster vanished. It had toppled over the brim of the cylinder and fallen into the pit, with a thud like the fall of a great mass of leather. I heard it give a peculiar thick cry, and forthwith another of these creatures appeared darkly in the deep shadow of the aperture.

I turned and, running madly, made for the first group of trees, perhaps a hundred yards away; but I ran slantingly and stumbling, for I could not avert my face from these things.

H.G. Wells

Where Do They Come From? The Dust. Where Do They Go? The Grave.

More Basement Shots

These guys have been watching me build some stuff lately...

Lurking In The Basement

 

Workshop Light Show

Workshop

It's War

Space Monsters

Saw this on the Classic Movie Monsters blog today - Seymour Simon's Space Monsters From Movies, TV, and Books.

I owned this during the formative years, and I feel like I carried it around a lot.  Took it places.  Like a Pastor who carries around an old Bible.  A real buzzkill at family events I'm sure (me and the Pastor).

So I looked the author up and found that he has a site and discusses the book:
seymoursimon.com

Very cool.  Loved this book.  Constantly read it.  Drew the monsters in it.  And wanted the Martian from War of the Worlds as a pet.

Found a couple pages from it here.

NASA Curiosity Rover

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Story here.

And here.