goosebumps, photographs, and scale model fun.

well im starting to settle in here…. good ole san diego. warmer than chicago but absolutely lacking culture and diverse people. i have yet to explore thoroughly so i wont pass such heavy judgement… yet.

you all have to check out this guys website —-> www.collinmartin.com

everything he seems to do is dang near gold. amazing art and a great blog too. he has one of the best set-ups ive ever seen in chicago. amazing studio spot and a rad outlook on his days. i picked a few of my favorite shots of his but this guy isnt just a photog. he fruitboots too. i ripped all these off his website (via screen saves) so all credits point to him.

my good good good friend patina sent me this link to another razzling amazing artist. she does these incredible paintings that look like models. and im into models so for me it all comes together with this! thanks patina for the shout!

i dont know what it is about scale models but shoot it pulls the inner child in me right into the living room floor. i want to bust out my legos and lincoln logs. that sorta reminds me of when i was a kid and lincoln logs were all the rage. my family was a bit on the poorer side during some of those old days so my folks made 3 huge canvas sacks full of lincoln logs for each of us boys (i am one of 3 brothers). my dad individually sculpted each log and my mom painted every one of them, color coordinated too! and we never new it. amazing thing was we always had the best set of anyone we knew. and that challenge still stands.

speaking of family, i recently gave my sister angela all of my goosebumps books. when i was a kid i freakin ate those books up. i had a huge collection (over 50?). eventually they just became trophies on a shelf piling dust more than new worn pages. angela is a teacher so i passed them along to her for her classroom. the kids were geeked. she sent me this snappy. makes me proud!

alright, well i have bombarded you kind folks enough with this novella of a post. go enjoy your sun-shining day.

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