Jeremiah Tolbert

This week was another heavy work week so I was unable to find the time to write a pod­cast script and get every­one together to record it.  With the Hiatus sched­uled now until December 8th, we should be able to get sev­eral scripts writ­ten and recorded.  I’m try­ing to move from writ­ing posts one at a time to writ­ing them in groups of sin­gle sto­ry­lines, and I’m try­ing to keep dif­fer­ent sto­ry­lines run­ning on the blog and on the podcast.

So, The Deadly Mr. Whiskers was a fun photo to shoot and chal­leng­ing to boot.  The model in this case is our cat Gildenstern (his brother’s name is Rosencrantz).   The toy was some­thing I spent the morn­ing mak­ing, and I have some behind-​​the-​​scenes pho­tos of it before the cats sav­aged it. It doesn’t really read very well in the cat photo unfor­tu­nately, but it’s made up to look like a lit­tle faery.  It had wings, but the cats demol­ished those early in the shoot, and they weren’t read­ing very well any­way, so we snipped them off.

Taking staged pic­tures of ani­mals is a pain in the ass.  Keeping the cat in the lights was impos­si­ble.  Getting him to play with the toy involved copi­ous amounts of cat­nip and even then, I couldn’t get him to attack it the way I wanted him to.  I have more pic­tures of my cats now than I ever really wanted.  This one was pretty much the best for what I was aim­ing for.  And with that, I’ll save fur­ther details for a members-​​only post on the Clockpunk site.

I hope you all have a won­der­ful week.

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