How to shoot a porno on the fly, in 4 easy steps...and some other stuff

Step 1: Find a local pizza establishment with a reputation for harboring exhibitionist flies with questionable moral conduct...

Step 2: Order your pizza, and while it's cooking track down your stars, who will no doubt be fiercely copulating in a flagrantly public place, such as on the edge of a stack of paper plates...

Step 3: Whip out your camera, stick it in the best thing to macro mode you can find, and snap away!

Step 4: Don't forget of course to break into your best London accent while shouting encouragement to your super-fly stars, such as 'Lovely darlin', now look back at me over your shoulder would you, that's pucker, yes more of that sweetie, you doin' awright back there stud, keep it up, terrific, how about a smile, that's wonderful!' while snapping pics all the while.

That's it.

Thankfully they taught me in the boy scouts to always 'be prepared' so I had my camera handy when opportunity struck.
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Something sculpture related...

I got some tree frogs on vines back from the foundry the other day. They're going to need a bit of metalworking, so I'll need Lee to pull me a new wax from the mold so Mike can accurately reproduce in metal the bits that need welding up and shaping with his sophisticated metal shapey tools. I'm pretty sure they're all air powered (there's often a large compressor generating industrious chugging sounds in the corner to power all manner of things).

The holes are cut into it for important reasons. My piece is being cast mostly hollow. It's right on the cusp of whether making it solid or hollow would work best.
When the wax version of the piece is dipped into the slurry that hardens into the investment mold (into which the bronze is poured) it has to coat the inside and the outside. When it fills up it gets heavy and could break the wax without holes to let the slurry drain out. Also, the air needs to get inside to dry the slurry before it gets dipped again for the next coat.
If the investment didn't dry out properly things could end up very messy.

I'm going to see if there's any ways the waxes can be chopped up for future castings to avoid holes and sprues going directly into the frogs, since it would be quicker and easier to work on the vine than the frogs in metal.

I got some bases made too. Shiny black granite with specially chipped edges.
I'm looking forward to seeing this one come together...
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This is a drag, but here's a quick update (just the facts) on my trying to get paid by that guy for my bronzes he sold over six months ago (and still owes me for) out of his gallery.
The collection people say he will pay them in installments. So far they've sent me my share of $250 (they deduct a chunk of that). I'm not sure if he's paid them more than that one installment, but I hope so.

I only managed to get one installment from him when he set it up that way with me, I hope they do better at getting installments than I did!

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