Took a photo with my phone before I gave it away at Steamfest. I just didn’t want you to think you were missing anything.
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Steamfest Sketches.
Ah, the best laid plans: Last year, for the first Steamfest, 600 attendees were expected; 1200 came. This year, 1200 were expected; roughly 600 came. Part of it was probably the change of venue from downtown SLC to a conference center in Layton, about fifteen miles north into Davis County. We in Davis are used…
Two shriney things.
I didn’t get a chance to take pictures of both of these before I took them to Steamfest (a semi-update post to come) — I only finished the second one this morning — but neither of them sold, giving you a second chance to observe them. Aren’t you blessed? I call this one “The Fetus…
July 24, 1847
From the journal of Apostle Wilford Woodruff on July 24, 1847: This, the 24th day of July, 1847, was an important day in the history of my life, and in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After traveling from our encampment six miles through the deep ravine valley ending with…
Heads and brains and such.
I have a half-dozen art and model projects in various stages of completion; with Steamfest this coming weekend, I need to sticks forks in some of them. First up, some improved shots of the spiderhead I showed last time: This next one is called The Book of Lives, and is as close to a “pure”…
Asking for the Resignation of Eric Holder.
In a perfect world, the flagrancy with which Attorney General Eric Holder has consistently abused his office for partisan and racially divisive goals would be a bipartisan issue; I don’t care which party you support, you should see that the man’s willingness to use the Justice Department for political ends weakens the trust that citizens…
12 Problems with Man of Steel.
When I came out of Man of Steel with my sons (it seemed like a guy movie), by fifteen-year-old said, “That was awesome.” My response was, “It was pretty good.” And then I spent the whole drive home listing my disappointments. Some of my complaints appeared in point form in yesterday’s Cheap Caffeine comic, and…
Revenge of the Ninja (1983)
Not a review so much as a collection of anecdotes. I think I first saw this movie in my teens; I’m not sure. Maybe not all of it. But that was when I lived in Canada. I watched it again about fifteen years ago, when I had moved to Utah, and had just finished working…
Does it yet wave?
For the past several years, my practice on Independence Day is to repost (with tweaks as they present themselves) an essay honoring America that I wrote a while back and didn’t think I could top. Then the server crash wiped out everything on my blog, and with the press of other projects I haven’t even…
Beware the head!
I’ve been working on this for several weeks, off and on. The lawn may not best the best backdrop, alas. That head is fully head-sized. I’ll have this for sale at Steamfest. Not sure about the price yet.