New video on Old and Spooky! This was a lot of fun to make, and certainly a lot of fun to research.
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This week’s video was a fun challenge. I had to sculpt a ghost dog in an interesting position. Even if it wasn’t entirely successful, there are context clues. I really enjoyed painting the little nighttime street scene.
Lots of clay, lots of paint, lots of terrible, terrible jokes.
About a year ago, I started working on a bunch of stuff. Among them was a retro-horror channel called Old and Spooky, where I would discuss 20th century horror. I was almost done with my first video, when disaster struck. Disaster named ADHD. I accidentally deleted my data, and thanks to Microsoft (it’s complicated, but they suck) I could only restore a tiny amount.
I was devastated. I couldn’t look at it for months.
Then I started My Messy Desk, which is a whole lot of fun. Problem is, there’s a lot of downtime while I wait for things to dry or cure or whatever, and I don’t have much else to do. I decided to work on Old and Spooky during that downtime. It felt great. It feels great. And now, the first video is out.
It’s about one of my all-time faves: Dan Curtis. If you don’t know who that is, I bet you do know Dark Shadows and the Kolchak movies, right? Well that’s Dan Curtis.
Here is my inaugural video. My reading is a little stiff, but that will get better with time. Overall, I’m pretty proud of this. *flexes*
Another shadowbox this week, and it’s a doozy. Well, the outcome was pretty simple–though I really like it! It’s just that the journey to get there was…complicated. Mostly mold-making, because that’s always time-consuming and complicated. But soooo worth it! I will be using this little guy forever.
Tags: #crafts #art #ghosts #halloween
So, I have a YouTube channel. Well, a new one. Sort of. And since I’ve updated on time (more or less) for a whole month, it’s time to announce it here!
It’s called My Messy Desk, and to avoid filling my entire house up with little makes, I give everything away. Or at least I will once it’s grown enough to get the comments. I only want five! FIVE. Eventually.
The important thing to know is TURN ON CAPTIONS. There’s no voiceover, and if you don’t turn on captions, you’ll miss my scintillating commentary. And spackle jokes.
What I do there won’t always be spooky, but for the next few months, all spooky, all the time!
Catching up with Nick of NightMind and his annual Candy Bowl, where his faithful acolytes submit horror shorts. A nice spooky way to spend those first few days after Halloween.
Since the vid is age restricted, I can’t put it in the post, so here is Candy Bowl 2023.
My fave so far is What’s Inside with Mark.
Artisans Coop is an online marketplace for ONLY for handmade items, run by its member artists and supporters. I’m a founding member and volunteer, so I get to see the workings. It really is what it says on the package. No outside investors we’re beholden to, no megalomaniac billionaires at the helm. Just us. Just artists and people who love them.
And yep, I have a shop there. With permission from the Countdown, I’ll be featuring shop items on the blog during October. And after October.
I’ve even added a shop page here, so you can look things over in Spooky Moon style.
Right now, it’s all brooches, so today’s item is my Red Skull Brooch (no, not that Red Skull. It’s just a red skull).
Tell everyone! Tell your dog! Tell your gecko! You could tell your cat, but they probably won’t care.
I watch a lot of YouTube. I have a wide range of interests, and I dig watching people do their thing. NightMind, by Nick Nocturne, is one of a handful of creators I love so much I support them on Patreon. He covers Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) and Unfiction, two of my favorite things in the world. He’s thorough, interesting, and fun. I have sat through 4-hour streams for this guy. So, naturally, I had to get a plushie. I mean, that’s what you do, right? I also got a pin, which I proceeded to put on the plushie.
Nick has two channels, his main channel, Nightmind, is for meticulously researched scripted explorations of cool stuff. Nick Nocturne [Astraline], is where he posts his Twitch streams of Unfiction and ARG. They’re long, but so much fun because you are looking at new things with him. Astraline is its own world of characters, of which Nick is one, and I can’t wait to see where it goes.
