Clockpunk: The Deadly Mr. Whiskers
Filed Under: Music, My Writing, New Art Photo, Podcast, personal
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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