http://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtByAelia?ref=seller_info It was the custom whale tails that got my attention. I was looking for something to remember Orky and Corky by, loved the idea of a mommy and her baby or babies on a charm bracelet.
Real life has thrown us another "WTF now?" still with the car wreck. ~scream~
For me it's chocolate rectangles, about half way finished and I plan to take pictures, computer work with organizing files and stuff. Maybe doing some more printing since I finally bought ink.
I have a paper doll idea that I printed half the stuff out for, how cute are Bonnie Bows? Now to figure out the other half.
Just as things were going better with the Easter Borzoi not jumping on us to greet us in the morning. Clover gets a little too excited some times but these two are such a better fit than the labrodork.
Part one with a special ending http://youtu.be/GODk00Db844
Part two http://youtu.be/O0kwtnATN14
Just been making chocolate rectangles, fussing with an oven that refuses to heat up like a normal oven, and being unmotivated to do anything.
And resting my back where I can because sitting on the floor and sorting the DVD fort alphabetically did not seem to agree with it. Finally we got all of them together, except for like my multi region ones I don't want to have to repetively explain why they don't work, and put up with all the someone would toss out things like Star Trek and 21 Jumpstreet and just about everything else I've bought because she doesn't like them. I don't like dog and pony movies but I wouldn't throw away someone else's DVDs.
Imagine how long it took to explain we can part with some DVDs because the bells and whistles director's cut is better.
On the good side I found we have a copy of One Hour Photo, which I saw once awhile back, and it's one of those movies I would like to see again and would have if I knew we had it. You see, someone had the idea that stacking DVDs 2 and 3 deep in a dark corner is a great way to store them. Or let's put a sheet over them to keep the dust off! Unseen DVDs never get watched and what's the point in having them if you can't watch them.
You know what I need to watch if I'm stuck not able to use my arms too much, the Re Animator trilogy. It's been a good long while. Or Castle Freak. I think I saw that once and it's a bit foggy in the memory. Yeah, the Jeffrey Combs Stuart Gordon movies share a lot in common. Faust, I never got to see that Faust we have.
I might get in to the newest doll making book and see about making a pattern for the core then seeing if the styrofoam I already have will work.
As for movies I made myself sit down and watch I finally got around to Just One of the Guys. It's not... It's one of those unstisfying movies. Without giving it away the ending makes you wonder if any of the characters advanced in being better characters. I was more interested in the background characters and found myself pleasantly distracted by Stu Charno as Reptile.
Yes, he got a prom date and yes she was "frumpy". You know what would have been neat, he shows up with a girl with an even bigger snake. Reptile who stands in his own light and makes it shine brighter than the sun with a quirky girl while the two are wrapped by a boa constricter. Stu Charno is one of those people that if he were twins it would throw the earth off its axis because it would devide by zero or make more wholphins or something.
So there's this sit come about an Aussie dad who's a former pop star having a midlife crisis while managing the world tour of his opera singing buddy while they try to hook their kids up. Turns out it's just the new Wiggles. But seriously, what did I just create? And Cpt Feathersword is a better candidate for Anthony's heterosexual life partner than Simon. Simon's just one of those guys like Greg who takes BEST JOB EVAR to heart.
Yes that's Tilikum who according to Cracked.com is the first whale that can be categorized as a serial killer and Orky from Marineland was even bigger by the time he shagged himself out. As both were/are the only wild captured bulls in captivity they're here for two things, and they're all out of fish...
Still free writing which is good, thinking about watching some other DVDs be it the first time or again. Today doesn't feel as scattered as yeasterday but it doesn't feel focused yet. Time doesn't get faster as you get older, there are many things that can still take forever.
If not for the whiplash, which I am on a better healing track of because I understand better how to do it myself, I would be making more chocolate rectangles. Instead I'm doing one at a time and no more than one an hour so not to further stress my shoulder.
Wondering who Orky the killer whale's mommy is is one thing, getting ready to search for resemblances in saddle patches and mathing how many of the A5 pod females would be old enough to have him, A7, A8, A9 is stuff for graduate students in Seattle.
Looking at videos on You Tube wndering if Corky remembers going to a rubbing beach and continues the behavior and taught it to Orkid and others might be borderline needing human contact.
Well I did get all the verigated triangles finished and can start on the chocolate bars in the owl cape.
So that feels good and I've stopped while my shoulder still feels good. I suppose the whiplash will heal on its own and eventually I'll be able to get back to rerooting.
In between it all I'm doing some free writing by hand in a notebook to get it out. Not that I plan to share it or anything, some stuff requires a much braver than I partner in crime, but as always writing is writing. If this leads to wanting to get through the last really depressing story in Xavier's book than great, if it leads to anything else its still good.
I ended up watching Forbidden Planet last night. Aside from reflecting the era in which it was created it really is great insight in to the human condition and I suggest everyone see it at least once. And yes, that is Leslie Nielson as the captain. It did help me put visuals to some of the sound bites used in the DMC remix of Blue Monday. Which then reminded me that I have the Cure Standing on the Beach songbook and I've always wanted to play The Walk on something like the xylophone. I have the hammered dulcimer, I just have to remember I have it some times.
Note to self you want to play Brown Yah Ur, or what ever it is, the instrumental by Zep.
Getting back in to gear. This book came in awhile back, it's kind of sold as a part two to the Alice book.
This book does stand alone and you can make a doll with it. It is not as step by step by step as the Alice book, it has mold making and casting. If you are good at figuring out what's going on with only pictures and looking for the local equivalent of supplies you will do okay. If you already have other ball joint doll making books, even the Alice book, this is a good supliment. It goes further with joints and has the mold making and casting. There are full scale plans for the doll and clothes.
ISBN 978-4-7980-3728 for 2000 yen so don't over pay.
Still have cetaceans on the brain but it's working its self out.
Genetically modified Flipper has even had a baby of her own.
And they've been teaching Orkid the super smart killer whale how to count.
Now that is kind of a cute idea, especially with the great idea I just gave myself.
The regular doctor told me that heat, massage, and muscle relaxants, like the topical kind, are the remedy for whiplash. The chiropractor couldn't tell me that? Still haven't seen a report aboutt he X-rays either and part of me wonders if there's anything with the bones.
Slowly my shoulder si coming back or I'm getting more used to the pain. Hopefully tomorrow I'll wake up with the want to do a new thing. I can't sew or reroot yet but if I work for a little while in the mornings I might be able to start doll making or something. I do have a something I want to sculpt.
This time I am pretty sure I'm going to go step by step with hte odll making. Being that this latest one has a pattern to follow and some very sensible instructions I think it might get through. I hope it does.
Meanwhile I make a few triangles in the morning and unravel ruffle scarves while watching TV in the afternoon. I want to remake the ruffles. They're good that way.
So at least I have a visual representation of doing something for myself. Got real life business tomorrow which will disrupt my usual schedule so that might get something going.
Not paricularly sad today, got a great idea for something to make out of Apoxie Sculpt, just not much of an urge to do anything.
The bigger squirting baby, the brother, is the belly dancer.
And I found the old Marineland site. It would appear that Orkid's smarts and 'tude come strait from her dad, but her mom was a bit moody too. Each whale is their own special personality. The belly dancer is a charmer, it'll be cute when he's 22 feet long and weighs elebenty tones. His daddy is Tilikum the serial killer, hopefully Nakai will be a doll.
The best thing to happen recently was findinf someone had footage of Sea World in 1987 where Orky has 4 ladies and you can just hear him saying "Giggity". It's the part with a bunch of whales in the Sea World tank. Being that I haven't seen anything like a dating video out side of comedy shows this was about it.
And that's been about it.
Yeah I'm looking in to trading off the Queen of the Irish fairies Barbie to someone who will enjoy her more but in general I'm just not feeling very dollish. Just not feeling very anything.
It's got to pass sooner or later. It's not the worse I've ever had, I just feel gloomy and bored.
Right now anything I do feels like it's something to do to pass time. I'm working on the owl cape, it was unraveled back to the beige part with the cables and the varegated bit after turned in to triangles to start the entrelac. If I get enough Shamu I have things to watch and read.
A bit of this time has been decompressing perhaps but a good bit of it is attached to the accident and the general you've got to be sh*tting me that's been going with it.
I do need to dust the dollhouse. It's been the way it is for awhile now. I'd like to put some more displays together but I feel a bit tapped of ideas.
I want to start adding pictures of stuff to my typed journal pages and clarify some parts, especially the stories I'm working on at times. Not the minute changes but the basic ideas so I can track if it changes names, merges with another, or morphs in to something else.
Something will happen to turn it all around. Even getting back in to the fun and romance of Orky and Corky, one of their babies Spooky was born on Halloween, got me thinking a bit.
Hell, the trainers used to stick their heads in Orky and Corky's mouths and they had to live in a Dixie Cup and they liked it that way.
Naw, he was a sweetheart. If you're in Florida his daughter is Kayla, the really really big girl, only Tilkum their bull is bigger. And it looks like both of Orky's girls have his big hands.
IRL I'm fighting gloomies and all that related to the accident and stuff I wouldnt be dealing with if not for.
Doll business wise I've offered to trade my loose Irish Fairy Queen. It's one of those things where she should be off to someone who would enjoy her more and I'd rather have Wiggles or a head for the Dollzone dragon, or something else I'd enjoy.
I live in California, when I was little I went to Marineland of the Pacific, it's probably where I got my dolphin plushie Swingy who along with his once white and now as grey as he is sealion companion Seymour. They were my constant companions for many many years through many many things and still have a place of honor near my bed.
Anywho Marine land had a pair of Killer/Orca whales named Orky (boy) and Corky (girl). They're the pair on the Partridge Family and hanging out digging the music is totally them.
They had the first captive bread calf, none of their babies survived, and tank problems aside part of it could be genetic. When Marineland closed they went to Sea World in San Diego. I want to swear they performed under their names and I saw them there.
The pair at 2:40 is them, Corky has a tall strait dorsal fin and you catch a glimpse of Orky's flopped over fin as he does a belly flop. I say Orky and Corky could have had genetic problems because upon arrival Orky was introduced to a pair of Seaworld ladies. His daughter Orkid was born to Kandu in San Diego in 1988, she's the "baby Shamu" they fussed over and mom Kandu is the one who died after trying to be dominate over Corky. Orky died 3 days after Orkid was born. She performs at Sea World San Diego to this day with foster mom Corky (more in a moment).
Orky's other daughter is Kayla who was born to Keanu. Kayla has moved around from park to park and had a daughter named Haylin who died suddenly. It is possible that Kayla could have more calves so Orky could possibly have grandbabies some day.
Corky lives on at San Diego with Orkid. All I'll say to the release Corky people is what about Orkid who would lose the only "mother" she's ever known?
If you've ever seen a Shamu commercial for San Diego since 1988 or a show chances are you've seen Corky. Sure they pretty much call any orca doing the bulk of the show "Shamu" like "Lassie" and they'll call her 'him'.
But most of the time they're all Corky. She has a strait fin, a notch out of her left fluke, and notice how her white eye patches are a bit pointed at the front. She's a big girl too, only the bulls are bigger. She's also a sweetheart, Corky has never attacked a trainer, she's the first whale new trainers start with, and she's one of the whales they still get in the water with. If a celebrity or news caster swims with a whale it's usually Corky.
The few times I've been to Sea World and seen a whale show it was Corky. Last time we were on the sky walk over the orca tank and the janitor was talking to baby Shamu Orkid and she was talking back. She was also relatively small so it's been a long long time.
If you're searching You Tube and find videos of a whale attacking a bird the culprit is usually Orkid, who they no longer go in the water with because she's shown agression. Maybe her daddy is looking down from whale heaven smiling as she noms them birds.
To end on a happier note, here's Beluga whales talking on a cell phone.
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