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Jul 30 2015
There’s nothing quite like a preserved bit of nastiness in a bottle. A specimen floating in murky liquid in a dirty sample jar just calls out to people. They want to pick it up, turn it around, and take a good look at what’s inside. The ickier it is, the better. This tutorial will show …
Jul 29 2015
Graham Bartram produced these nicely done bottled specimens and sent over some helpful tips: “I’ve made my first couple of bottled specimens and attached a couple of photos to so you can take a look. I hope you like them. What a learning experience that was. In hindsight I can see a couple of things …
Jul 28 2015
Another specimen from the Miskatonic University collection, this time from the 1927 expedition to the Congo. As usual, things didn’t end well. The glowing fluid is a by product of illuminating the interior of the jar with reflected light. The tabletop is lit by shop lights on both sides. Light passes into the jar and …
Jul 27 2015
Another preserved worm that just happens to be available on Ebay. With the crass commercialism out of the way… I think I may have figured out why the epoxy resin teeth on some worms pick up the dye used to color the water. Before I close up a jar I add a few grains of …
Jul 26 2015
This is a followup to Saturday’s post about the effect on long term immersion on the kind of latex creatures using in “things in a bottle”. After 48 hours out of the solution the worm has dried and shrunk back to it’s original size. Based on that I think it’s safe to say that the …
Jul 25 2015
Today I opened up a latex “specimen” that I bottled up in June of last year. Why? To test the effects of time on both the bottle seal and the critter inside. The seal, consisting of an internal and external layer of silicone for the lid and a coating of melted wax, was in absolutely …
Jul 24 2015
I think I may have made a major breakthrough in the field of “Thing in a Bottle” technology. It’s downright embarrassing how little discoveries like this make me giddy. Heh. One of the reasons I don’t make solid polymer clay or resin creatures is that they’ll eventually break after repeatedly hitting the glass inside a …
Jul 23 2015
I’ve been on a “things in a bottle” spree for about a month, cranking out Halloween decorations for friends looking for something to add to a shelf display or mad scientist’s lab. In the process I’ve picked up a few more refinements to the “Making a Thing in a Bottle” tutorial and its followups (here …
Jul 22 2015
This is a followup on the original post featuring the Making a “Thing In a Bottle” tutorial. Since then I’ve made about three dozen more bottled specimens, progressively refining the technique as issues impacting the long-term stability of the projects pop up. I’ve previously written about ways to insure an air-tight seal. This post will …
Jul 21 2015
Based on a few experiments I carried out over the weekend I’m going to add one more step to the Making A “Thing In A Bottle” project from back in March. As you can imagine, that tutorial has been getting an increasing amount of traffic as Halloween approaches. In the vast majority of cases it …
Jul 20 2015
There are a couple of tutorials for creating “Things in a bottle” floating around, but this is my approach. It’s a relatively simple process that’s designed to produce a high-quality prop from cheap, readily-available materials. First off, you’re going to need a “thing” to bottle. For this example I’ll be using a tissue sample from …
Jul 20 2015
To quote the description given at the new listing: “Hear how many languages Strange Jason mangles throughout this annual international episode! Music from DIRTY FUSE< MODERN MONSTERS, CLOCKWORK PSYCHO and more. Monstermatt Patterson deals with a Mattyslvania Coup in a MONSTERMATT MINUTE and we find out that the Krypt of Khaos is Duty Free in …
Jul 06 2015
To quote the description given at the new listing: “There’s so much new music in 2015, that we had to take another episode to celebrate the first half of the year. Music from SKURKARNA, THE REVERB SYNDICATE, THE HEX DISPENSERS, MESSER CHUPS and more. Monstermatt Patterson spends some time, spinning some rhymes, with another MONSTERMATT …
Jun 24 2015
To quote the description given at the new listing: “It’s the best of the first half of the year, and commemorate a fanastic first six months with music from THE MANGLED DEAD, THE TIKI CREEPS, WANTON, THE OTHER, THE JIMMY PSYCHO EXPERIMENT and other bands who don’t begin with THE. Monstermatt Patterson brings a legendary …
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