Holy Crap!
Robert Shields added me as a friend on Facebook! How friggin cool is that? He’s one of my heroes!
This is what real Jazz sounds like
Well, the New Orleans stuff anyways. These guys are so awesome, and the singer kills it.
Hang Drum
A street performer playing a hang (pronounced “hung”) drum. Pretty wicked. I’ve seen people make their own out of old propane containers too, but they sound a bit more tinny and less wicked.
Charlie Chaplin Street Guy
Really cool Charlie Chaplin street performer. I’ve seen a lot of impersonators that are painful to watch, this guy is great:
Living Statue Costume + Box
More work on creating a box to stand on. This time I started by cutting up a fenceboard and making a frame, then glueing some OSB sides on:
I bought the cheapest cupboard hinges I could find at Home Depot, and realized that I probably should have cut notches for them before I glued the sides [...]
Stuff
So I went and bought some OSB, which I’ll make my stagey boxey thing out of. I’m going to make a frame and then cut panels to attach:
I painted one coat onto the shirt and vest last night, and today I did another coat of black on em and started painting the pants. By the [...]
Costume
Working on a costume. I don’t have any great ideas, and I’ve been to every thrift store around in the past week without finding ANYTHING cool. :’(
So I decided experiment on an old cheap suit jacket. Here’s the finished coat:
And a work in progress pic. It took about 6 hours of total work.
Lazy
Lazy lazy lazy. Tsk tsk. I kept up with my little cartoon strip for awhile then got distracted by another project (as per usual).
I’ve been trying just about everything I can find to make a good living statue costume – for makeup I’ve tried Kryolan and Ben Nye, and for the actual costume I’ve tried [...]
Living Statue
So I’ve decided to be a living statue on the street. Mostly for fun, and any change I happen to collect.
I wrote this on a popping forum I go to, on the history of living statues. I wanted to post it here too:
It goes WAAAAY back. From what I’ve read, many hundreds of years ago [...]
