Category: Art
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METROPOLIS ART FAIR – 1997
As multiple posts on this site can confirm, I am someone who is inclined to get aesthetically obsessed with stories I love. Often that obsession is focused on a prop or two or a particular set, but for Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, it’s the whole damn pie. Everything about the show…
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THE WAVERIDER: BUILDING THE LEGEND
Somewhere in the multiverse is an Earth where every property gets the toy line it deserves. While we (regrettably) don’t live in that universe, we do live in a Golden Age of geekdom—one where the idea of creating your own toys is absolutely viable with the proper set of circumstances. I’ve always loved the design…
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The One with the Quarantine Costume
Pandemics suck, especially on Halloween… when it falls on a Saturday… and there’s an extra thanks to daylight saves… and there’s a full moon…. Absolute waste! So, instead of being with our real friends this year, a wonderful SoCal woman and yours truly decided to spend the day with some fake Friends instead. A two-person,…
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The Discovery of Magic: Prop Tutorial
The attachments I form to stories could be generously described as abnormal. As a fan, my mind tends to live in the aesthetic of one fictional world or another for weeks on end. I think that is why the physical representations of those stories, the props, are so endlessly fascinating to me. Replicating and decorating…
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BoP Goes POP! Vinyl
There are a ton of things that fans never get to see when a show is canceled after 13 episodes. With a few notable exceptions (sidebar: Firefly fans are so spoiled!), 13 episode shows never get good media coverage, behind the scenes featurettes, timely DVD releases, or that all-encompassing word for everything that fans…
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