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Made a new snail shell diaper, this time using minkee as the outer fabric - it has more body than the thin knit I used last time and works much better.
This is from the HHS pattern, size, medium. I like that the minkee outer doesn't creep into the thigh cream with the shell, help ensuring no wicking/leaks.
Made a new snail shell diaper, this time using minkee as the outer fabric - it has more body than the thin knit I used last time and works much better.
This is from the HHS pattern, size, medium. I like that the minkee outer doesn't creep into the thigh cream with the shell, help ensuring no wicking/leaks.
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Life is filled with such an unseen creatures! I found it in the middle of a forest.
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The Snail Shell Assassin figure recently released, and I got mine in a few days ago. Like Figma, Snail Shell has a very competent body that they tweak and provide for use in developing figures for the assortment of interesting character designs.
So I don't know the official names or anything, but this figure basically has two forms - some strange hybrid cybernetic animal form, and of course, the expected Waifu in skintight jumpsuit form.
It's an interesting design aesthetic, though for an assassin she seems awfully under armed, featuring a knife and a Grapnel Gun. The sheath for the knife and the harness for the Grapnel Gun plug directly into her lower spine. The interesting thing is that the hands are only meant to hold the knife - the Grapnel Gun is directly deployed from her harness... or that's what I think, as there's no real instructons.
Grapnel Gun comes with a coiled wire as well as three different tips, one for use when the tip has not been fired, and two actual projectiles to use with the wire.
Assassin is a return to average height for one of their figures, as Milk T Girl was just really short, though to be fair she was also really cheap to buy.
The cyborg mode head features multiple joints for articulation in the neck, covered with a fabric piece to hid the joints. There's also a joint at the base of the head, so overall this giraffe necked sculpt is actually very articulated. Compared to the normal head, which features effectively no neck articulation and limited head tilt, this feels somewhat like a step back.
Articulation has generally not been an issue with Snail Shell figures, and this is no different. mainly lacking a waist and butterfly shoulder joints. I've never removed the legs of any of the other figures (but this one I have to in order to swap out the groin pieces, and I notied the the hip design actually features some robust designs to allow for increased range of let motion without relying on a pull down hip design. The tail is actually articulated, tough the connection looks so fragile I'm afraid to actually manipulate the piece too much.
As always, use of the base will increase your posing options, and the base has cavities for you to store you spare pieces.
The two face plates are functional, and I can only presume they look like the source art. I can say, however, they're solid in terms of looking anime in nature, though again I wonder if this is simply because art direction insisted. There seems to be more rouge around the eyes on the finished product compared to the prototypes, and this shows up on the photos.
Otherwise, Paint and Build wise, pretty much on par with other Snail Shell items. in case you weren't aware, that is basically Storm Collectibles level of quality that should be coming out from these sets. Some questionable design choices as i've outlined above, but overall the figure certainly holds together than product from other companies.
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Mini garden in 12 inch pot with rocks, lichen, wood, oreganos, elfin thyme, assorted echeveria, mondo grass and a bench, pagoda lantern, pots and rake made out of polymer clay
Finally found a use for some of the empty snail shells that I have found down the back.
No snails were killed to obtain the shells :-)
A recording of my poetry reading at Longstone Heritage Centre, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, 17th August, 2006. Unfortunately this is incomplete because Flickr has a ninety-second rule for videos!
This one is a bit more sophisticated: I have added a series of pictures of the island of Samson.
Owned by Gulls
Bar Point at low tide. The beach a white hump,
With a single line of weed. Dune grass blued by brine.
On Dune Hill, a string of cairns from the days of Ennor.
Yellow furze, dormant ling, a line of opened tombs.
The petering path, punctuated by thrushes’ anvils
With their own snailshell cairns, and always,
The wind-flayed sternums of gulls, rock-pipits
And once-fearless wrens, the bleached wings still attached.
Down the hill, towards the spume-worn Neck.
Enter this empty, roofless home to your right,
Stoop beneath the rafter that would have been.
Silence, uncanny, unfathomable. Listen
For the wheeze of a Woodcock, clay pipe
Clenched in stained incisors. The air is thick;
It is hard to breathe. Emptiness, like the orbs
Of a gull’s skull.
Then up the slope towards South Hill,
Another house beckons you, the hard-hewn lintel
Perched, precarious as a bird, the low hearth
Lichen-bearded. The same silence, the same thickness,
The same constriction of the throat. You know
That you are breathing ghosts, not air. The half-heard sigh
Of a Webber, worn from kilp-burning, aching
To rest her legs beside the fire that would have been.
And back out into the vacancies of brown bracken,
Along this improbable deer-park wall, by these bluebells,
Half-open, grown wild from some garden long gone.
Owned by gulls, and the ghosts of all that would have been.
Source material: Inspired by a walk on Samson, 9th April 2004. Samson was most recently inhabited by humans between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, by two families, the Woodcocks and the Webbers, who made a meagre living from kilp (seaweed burned to produce raw ingredients for glassmaking), and whose houses still exist in the form of gaunt granite ruins. The last inhabitants of Samson were forcibly evicted by one Augustus Smith, whose grandiose plan to establish a deer-park on the island was thwarted by the deer themselves, who recklessly tried to swim back to Tresco. In prehistoric times, when the cairns were built, the Isles of Scilly were all one land-mass - a fact attested by the ancient field-systems which continue onto the beaches and into the sea - romantically known as Ennor. Samson comprises two unequal hills, divided by a “Neck”, low to the water. The island is now a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest on account of the large numbers of nesting seabirds which occupy the cliffs of South Hill in the breeding season. It is to be hoped, though any ornithologist would question the accuracy of the word, that Samson will now remain “uninhabited” forever. Poem by Giles Watson.
Made a new snail shell diaper, this time using minkee as the outer fabric - it has more body than the thin knit I used last time and works much better.
This is from the HHS pattern, size, medium. I like that the minkee outer doesn't creep into the thigh cream with the shell, help ensuring no wicking/leaks.
Seem to be running into a lot of snails out in the world.
I'm sure if I was some sort of prescient I'd fondle some meaning out of the coincidence, but mostly it's just curiouser and curiouser.
I love spirals. I also love snail shells. Took a walk by the pond, and selected a few pretty and empty shells. So tiny! This one is 13mm. Extension tube stack (68mm) added on top of my already awesome 100mm macro lens.
The snails died about half a year ago, but their shells still stick to the limb...
Die Schnecken sind wohl vor etwa einem halben Jahr gestorben, aber ihre Häuser kleben immer noch an dem Ast...
Bei Götterswickerhamm, Voerde (Niederrhein).
Made a new snail shell diaper, this time using minkee as the outer fabric - it has more body than the thin knit I used last time and works much better.
This is from the HHS pattern, size, medium. I like that the minkee outer doesn't creep into the thigh cream with the shell, help ensuring no wicking/leaks.
"Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly." ~ Ivan Turgenev
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7 November 2011: On my way to last night's lesson. A reminder from the little animal who carries its home with him wherever he goes, so fitting during this time of great transition in our lives.
My apologies to all of you for my prolonged absence. My online work and the vast amount of online paperwork involved in this move mean that my free time lately is spent anywhere but before a computer.
I value all of your thoughts, comments, emails, and faves ... even more now when you give them knowing full well it may be a while before I can reciprocate. If you are among those who know this and yet continue to encourage me, I thank you. Thank you.
Photo workshop today. Macro was the subject. I didn't had time to photograph my self so I did that at home. Natural light with bounced flash for fill.
Panasonic Lumix G3 with Lensbaby Composer Pro Double Glass Optic @f4
ISO 1250
I've been having some frustrations in getting my concepts for various 365 Projects to work out the way I see them in my head. In the meantime, I though I'd post an older picture, that I love to pieces.
The subject of the photo, a small, empty snail shell, was stuck to this abalone shell that I have in my garden with a fresh rain drop acting as the glue.
Taken with a +4 Macro lens.
Mexico City, MX - Polanco
A poster from the Paseo Reforma exhibit Migración Derechos Humanos (Migration Human Rights).Although the photograph is copyrighted by me, the image itself is copyrighted by the artist.
A little part of the other world for those, who love to dream...
Tiny Flower Gnome with his Cottage is one-of-a-kind handmade Waldorf inspired toy intended for all the forever-young fairytale lovers.
Woolen parts are hand-felted combinating wett and needle felting of plant dyed natural woolfell.
Set consists of:
* cottage with a straw roof and felt flower - diameter 3,35" (8,5cm), hight 4" (10cm) /flower-included hight is 5,5" (14cm)/
* Gnome: 1,6" (4cm) tall with two removable hats: Acorn one for everyday use and crochet one for a bed time
If You are missing some magic spell in Your life, or need a tender gift for Your little friend, please, don't tarry anymore :-)
About 1/4" in diameter.The front and back are so different -- a prominent spiral on the front but none on the back -- that I could think these pictures are not of the same snail (but they are). No doubt if I were more familiar with snails this wouldn't have surprised me.
In the view from the back (of the snail's underside, seen through the glass) on the right you can see what I'm guessing is the outline of the snail's foot firmly holding onto the glass (of one of our storm doors). See the note that I've added to the right hand picture.
When I came in through this door, saw the snail, opened the storm door that it's suspended on, and saw the snail's other side, I was reminded of this short, simple poem by Ryokan:
Maple leaf
Falling down
Showing front
Showing back
(This translation is from p. 85 of Steve Hagen's Buddhism Plain and Simple (c1997).)