MadDog Mike's Platterful of Pupule - El Tiki/Ben Wilson Wall Finished - Other Crafts

V VanTiki Member Hawaii Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 1046	V VanTiki Posted posted on Mon, Mar 7, 2011 6:29 PM Mike - genius as always! Back in my FX days we worked on the movie called The Relic, and I had to fill a "museum specimen room" set with thousands of dead animals in jars. A friend of mine and I molded a wide and exiting array of real dead animals, then cast zillions of urethane copies for the set. During the Month Of Smelling Bad (as it later became known), I often thought of trying some gyotaku prints with the weird critters we had - a rattlesnake gyotaku print would be cool! Unfortunately, all our specimens were soaked in toxic preservatives, and I handled them as little as possible. We did get a GREAT mold off of an octopus, and I have a cast of that little fellow on my studio wall. Can't wait to see the glazed fish - I bet a nice oxide rub would make the detail pop! Henrik

Mike - genius as always!

Back in my FX days we worked on the movie called The Relic, and I had to fill a "museum specimen room" set with thousands of dead animals in jars. A friend of mine and I molded a wide and exiting array of real dead animals, then cast zillions of urethane copies for the set. During the Month Of Smelling Bad (as it later became known), I often thought of trying some gyotaku prints with the weird critters we had - a rattlesnake gyotaku print would be cool! Unfortunately, all our specimens were soaked in toxic preservatives, and I handled them as little as possible. We did get a GREAT mold off of an octopus, and I have a cast of that little fellow on my studio wall.

Can't wait to see the glazed fish - I bet a nice oxide rub would make the detail pop!

Henrik

Post #579306 by VanTiki on Mon, Mar 7, 2011 6:29 PM