Leather

The lovely Kyle Bean set our class a project a little while ago. We were given a list of materials to chose to make a project out of, and I picked leather. I immediately thought it would be funny to make a cow out of leather, then that it would be even funnier if it could turn into a shoe. Gotta love a bit of leather.

Check out the little guy in action

It's behind you!

Or under your bed, to be precise. This project was called "The Art of the Accident", which I was initially not impressed with, because it demanded that you were spontaneous, which by it's nature is quite difficult. But then I saw one of the topics we could work with was "When Animals Attack". It was love at first site. The creature at the top is a soft toy visualisation of the result of a game of consequences I made my family play, in order to create a monster that I would have no control over. Turns out the little fella has a mind of it's own, I left the camera on over night and he went all Toy Story on me.

Not content with making a little monster, I decided to make myself into one, after a mask making workshop with the very awesome Riitta Ikonen. I felt that the next natural step from a mask, was to make a giant tentacle and get under my lovely friend Ed's bed and pretend to be a monster. It was pretty awesome, not gonna lie. The video came out a bit sketchy, so I'll try and sort that out and post it up, so for now, you'll have to be content with these in no way terrifying photos :D