I Love My Grandson

The last time I talked to my oldest son Mark he put my grandson on the phone.

"Do you know who I am?"

"Yes, you are my Grandpa and I love you."

My heart melted.

Whale Wednesday; City in the Sea

Whales In Need of Kind Souls. Winks the micro-nation created to save whales.
A floating city to give aid to the whales.

Mermaid Monday: Imagination for the Sea

The top drawing is on the envelope of my birthday card. Drawn by the bravest woman I know. She lost twins in childbirth and is brave enough to be pregnant with a girl as I write this. My grand daughter asked her to draw those mermaids and she can draw in a way I can't, she can draw like a child.

The second drawing is of my concept for a sea city called Winks. The country of Winks will have a mermaid to protect sea life and to teach children to swim.

Saturn Saturday; The Long Way to Saturn

He transfered all his winkers to his sons. It was strange to handle paper money but when the micro-nations and micro-corporations took over the Solar System they put in place laws about the large transfer of money.

Winks

The first flag of Winks made out of poster board.



The forming of a Micro Nation is a silly thing and I feel I have captured that moment of stupid power mad ego with the above photo. In that moment of devine creative spirit I came up with the name of my mighty nation and the future flag of a not so great super powerless. I am the only citizen of Winks but I have high hopes as I have named my country Winks and not Wink.

Our motto is; We believe in everything but not at the same time!

Doll House Bash

Burned out on writing and painting yesterday, so I started to combine three plastic doll houses. I cut off the broken front porches of two of the doll houses and scaled back the clock tower and put it on top of the bashed together doll house.

Whale Wednesday; Baby Blue Space Suit

Photo Nat Geo

I've decided to put my Baby Blue Whale in a space suit. I think I can make it cheaper than trying to make realistic whale skin.

Mermaid Monday; Linden Wolbert

Photo Copyright Mermaids in Motion / Linden Wolbert.
Used with permission by Linden Wolbert.

I'm a day behind on everything! I'm writing Mermaid Monday on Tuesday. I've written a new mermaid scene in my second feature script of the summer. This time the mermaid has a scene with a robot the size of a horse. I've started building this giant robot puppet but that is another story. This story is about Linden Wolbert a real life mermaid.

I don't know Linden Wolbert but I'm a fan of work. I've exchanged a few emails with her about my current movie project which has a mermaid scene (now scenes) in the story. I've never shot an underwater scene and I first contacted her about doing some consulting work on the movie. This story isn't about my movie project, it about how Linden and all the real life mermaids of the world help young girls learn to swim.

I never engaged my sons when they were little in the fairy tale world. They never believed in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy and we never talked about mermaids at all. My grand daughter of two years old believes with all her heart and soul that mermaids are real. Linden Wolbert made me believe in mermaids. To see a twinkle in my grand daughter's eyes as she watches Linden swim in the ocean in one of her many videos as a real life mermaid is priceless.

My grand daughter loves the water and went to a beach on the Gulf of Mexico this summer to look for mermaids with her parents and Aunt Torrie. I see her play in her small pool in her front yard with her mermaid dolls in the water with her and think how important that belief in mermaids really is. The water is her friend and mermaids made the water safe in her young mind.

She'll never have the fear of water as I did when I first learned to swim. Mermaids like Linden showed her the way to the waters edge. To the Northern Queen of Mermaids Linden Wolbert thank you for living your dream and bringing a little joy to my grand daughter.

Please take a peek at the web site Mermaids in Motion.

Two New Puppet Concepts

Here are two new full size drawings.

Saturn Saturday; Space Lottery

Behind on everything. Will update all three Saturn Saturdays on Sunday.

Doll House Project

My Grand Daughter came over today and wore me out. To keep her out of things I started the Doll House Project in January of this year. I bought her several dolls on sell or at thrift stores. Then I bought her one very used plastic doll house and her parents found three more free plastic doll houses and being the very silly grandpa that I am I'm working on combining all four of the doll houses into one big doll house.

Puppet Paintings Update

I wanted to finish these puppets paintings before I started the mockups in 3D but I've run out of time. On the bottom you see the original artwork.

On July 17th I replaced a blurred photo with the newest version of the painting of Red Fin and Owl Bug.

More Flags of Micro Nations

Why all the silly flags? I'm writing a scene that is a parody of the United Nation and I didn't want to use Macro Nations. All the flags of Micro Nations will be made into parody flags.

Whale Wednesday; Baby Blue Project Update

Here are photos of the process of starting the Baby Blue Project. The concept is a 25 foot model of a baby Blue Whale as a skate board float. Skate boarders would use their skate boards to move the weighted inflatable whale along a parade route.

In the lower photos you see my unfinished mural designs. Only the History of Robots was made into a mural at a museum. I found out a week ago it has been painted over. The Dinosaur and Riverboat were rejected early on by the museum I worked for.
I plan to finish all three now as I get ready to pitch to another museum.