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Long Lost Friend Studio is my self-publishing imprint, the studio space where we work, and a YouTube channel featuring videos about art and creativity. This blog covers everything happening with me and Long Lost Friend Studio.
What Happens When The Dog STOPS Talking?
Two lawyers, a bank president, a farmer, and a hypnotist were sitting in a jail cell, passing the time with idle chat.
“We had it all worked out,” said one of the lawyers. “Gather the family for the reading of the will, inform them they had to spend the night in that creepy old mansion to get their share of the money, then scare them off one by one until the money was all ours.”
“It was a perfect plan,” said the second lawyer.
“Almost perfect,” the first lawyer sighed. “Those kids really threw a monkey wrench into the works.”
Mary Blair Haunted My Mansion
Admittedly, “mansion” is a monstrous overstatement when discussing my dank, spider-infested, subterranean art studio, but I needed a hook for the title. Speaking of notable titles, a book we brought into the studio the other day — Magic Color Flair: The World of Mary Blair — is something Michelle and I pored over for an hour, becoming more enchanted with every turned page, only stopping when the webs being spun around our immobile forms indicated we were in danger of being exsanguinated.
Monster Terrorizes Disney!
In 1995, Disney released the theatrical short, Runaway Brain. It was a 7 minute Mickey Mouse cartoon intended to run before a few of their upcoming features. The plot is a classic brain switch horror-comedy where a mad scientist puts Mickey’s brain into a giant monster, and the monster’s less-than-refined brain goes into Mickey. As expected, chaos ensues.
Making A Monkey Out Of Me
This week on our YouTube channel, we made Ben Cooper-style Planet of the Apes masks (and accompanying window boxes). We don’t have a vacuum forming machine, so we sculpted them out of papier mache and foam clay.