tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34545666881722231562024-03-13T05:04:09.324-07:00The Carol of the Christmas PickleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454566688172223156.post-26797365862057003342009-05-29T07:52:00.000-07:002009-05-29T07:58:22.980-07:00DFW IMAs - Best of Show Winner!The Carol of the Christmas Pickle took home the gold for Best Use of Video and won all the marbles with Best in Show honors at the <a href="http://www.dfwima.org/eima/">DFW Interactive Media Awards</a>.<br /><br />And there was much rejoicing, drinking...again.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/Sh_3WjA0AGI/AAAAAAAAAVE/KMDsO0Qe56M/s1600-h/photo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/Sh_3WjA0AGI/AAAAAAAAAVE/KMDsO0Qe56M/s320/photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341259649812529250" border="0" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454566688172223156.post-37999238332162040012008-12-19T07:38:00.000-08:002008-12-19T12:37:32.859-08:00Getting Interesting<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Getting some love from the 'Tubes! </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUvE_ERsQRI/AAAAAAAAAU8/6uTKTbtethY/s1600-h/youtube_logo.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 102px; height: 70px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUvE_ERsQRI/AAAAAAAAAU8/6uTKTbtethY/s200/youtube_logo.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281531575780786450" border="0" /></a><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUvE7aGGtPI/AAAAAAAAAU0/ezRkmrcchrU/s1600-h/youtube_canada.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 91px; height: 51px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUvE7aGGtPI/AAAAAAAAAU0/ezRkmrcchrU/s200/youtube_canada.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281531512918291698" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">30k views</span> so far on YouTube alone. More sites are re-hosting the video each day. Orsome! But what's most exciting up to this point is that <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.channelfrederator.com/">Channel Frederator</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>will be doing a podcast focusing on our little pickle production next week.<br /><br />For those of you that don't know, Channel Frederator is one of the most popular podcasts in the whole damn universe (at least) and is run by Fred...not just any old "Fred", but Fred as in the former head of Comedy Central, Hannah Barbera and frikkin MTV.<br /><br />Like, zionks, man.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUvDb-VOn3I/AAAAAAAAAUc/hZLFGRuc7ew/s1600-h/12383.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUvDb-VOn3I/AAAAAAAAAUc/hZLFGRuc7ew/s400/12383.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281529873377959794" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Loves us? Yes. You? Not so much.</span> <span style="font-size:78%;">(We keed)</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454566688172223156.post-60033352567626254862008-12-17T07:05:00.000-08:002008-12-17T08:20:29.766-08:00The Carol of The Christmas Pickle PODCAST!<div style="text-align: center;">Take a little holiday WTF with you wherever you go!<br /><br />Click the Podcast link to the right of the page.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cp%3E%3Ca%20href=%22http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheCarolOfTheChristmasPickle%22%3E%3Cimg%20alt=%22I%20heart%20FeedBurner%22%20style=%22border:%200pt%20none%20;%22%20src=%22http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/i_heart_fb.gif%22/%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyWpEka4XGnG61cl3_Bbl391SoiBr9UKi_MAQH_pMuFYaqj-1WOEYEWuyGyMhcAf83I4rEgmD8gpHYRzEoAIg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></a><br /><br />(If you want to see how the video was made, click the Making Of links to the right.)<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454566688172223156.post-91356131382643244442008-12-11T13:53:00.000-08:002008-12-17T08:15:33.744-08:00Launch Day: It's ALIVE!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T-tOh1hMCs"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SULRPA-xgFI/AAAAAAAAAQk/W5rVIpXndkw/s400/screencap.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279011769123176530" border="0" /></a><br />12/15/08 Update: Video also on <a href="http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/vidplayer.pl?IDLink=4079106">Fark.com</a> and on <a href="http://gorillamask.net/index.php?show_page=&start_results=25&">Gorillamask.net.</a>.. <span>And now <a href="http://www.adrants.com/2008/12/carol-of-the-pickles-stops-short-.php">Adrants.</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:130%;" ><br />20k views as of today!</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span>20 thousand people? Let's put that in perspective. Here's what 20 thousand people look like lying naked in a square:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgNsQU0bbI/AAAAAAAAASE/x4CkHWwiseM/s1600-h/610x.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 165px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgNsQU0bbI/AAAAAAAAASE/x4CkHWwiseM/s400/610x.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280485617039601074" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">"Dude, that better be a Christmas Pickle poking me in the back."</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454566688172223156.post-4846277662838304952008-12-10T14:06:00.000-08:002008-12-17T08:10:18.843-08:00Day 9: Chaos<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">This is the big scene: streaking, vomiting, running, passing out--basically, everything you'd expect from a weekend at Neverland Ranch but done with pickles. This few seconds of video took 80 brazillion hours to complete, but we kinda think it was worth it.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgZmp8LgPI/AAAAAAAAATs/yYc1unMtpwo/s1600-h/IMG_2011.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgZmp8LgPI/AAAAAAAAATs/yYc1unMtpwo/s400/IMG_2011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280498714975895794" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Oh, the veggiemanity!</span><br /></div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgZPi3rGKI/AAAAAAAAATk/ELOKEWpyVcY/s1600-h/IMG_2012.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgZPi3rGKI/AAAAAAAAATk/ELOKEWpyVcY/s400/IMG_2012.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280498317940955298" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">You do NOT want to know what you have to do to them to make their eyes bug out like that.</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgaBh8pxOI/AAAAAAAAAT8/D4Ij_g4bOp4/s1600-h/IMG_2007.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgaBh8pxOI/AAAAAAAAAT8/D4Ij_g4bOp4/s400/IMG_2007.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280499176686863586" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;">"Yay, miniature snow angel!"</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454566688172223156.post-71734519654663169482008-12-10T13:57:00.000-08:002008-12-17T08:09:22.179-08:00Day 8: The Final Push (Audio)<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SULe1177TjI/AAAAAAAAAQs/_cj0PJd_2Ro/s1600-h/1208081807.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SULe1177TjI/AAAAAAAAAQs/_cj0PJd_2Ro/s400/1208081807.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279026729824505394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">B</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:78%;">en searching his database for "vomiting". Surprisingly his query returned 9,000,000 results<br /><br /></span></span></div>There be Saints in this world, I tells ya, SAINTS! Ben down at <a href="http://fastcuts.tv/">Fast Cuts</a> saved the day. Though we were willing to settle for whatever audio we could pull together on Matt's Mr. Microphone, Ben and co. were nice enough to put together a choir, cobble together the s/fx AND mix it all down for us. Why? Because they believe in the magic of the Christmas Pickle.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.askmen.com/video/2006_mar/mar02_mr_microphone.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 336px; height: 140px;" src="http://images.askmen.com/video/2006_mar/mar02_mr_microphone.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Matt shown here with his Mr. Microphone<br />(As seen on the Zapruder film)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">You truly haven't lived until you've sat in a plush recording studio debating the finer points of vomit sound effects. I think we learned a lot about each other around the 33rd time we laughed aloud at the concept of a streaking pickle (watch the film). Clearly, when people refer to us as "professionals" they should do so while making little air quotes.<br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454566688172223156.post-64356996584300697182008-12-09T14:12:00.000-08:002008-12-12T14:42:21.460-08:00Day 7: Relishing the MomentOne of the greatest technological barriers we faced was how to make our pickles puke. Sure it sounds easy enough, show them how relish is made and <span style="font-style: italic;">PRESTO</span>! Not so fast. Nope, we had to go all Electric Light and Magic and employ (drum roll please) "visual effects."<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SULiHxoyPQI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/nzrPAoDILuM/s1600-h/1203081930.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 245px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SULiHxoyPQI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/nzrPAoDILuM/s400/1203081930.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279030336443006210" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Here Matt miracles up a batch of his homemade pickle puke</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">After much trial and more error, we discovered that relish (what else would pickles puke?) mixed with paste creates the perfect effect. Score one for science! </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SULkcpLq4oI/AAAAAAAAARE/t_7s-sYMBLQ/s1600-h/1203081842.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SULkcpLq4oI/AAAAAAAAARE/t_7s-sYMBLQ/s320/1203081842.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279032893973914242" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">"I think it just moved."</span><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454566688172223156.post-67915961887241125752008-12-08T14:25:00.000-08:002008-12-17T08:08:13.832-08:00Day 6: Zack and Cara vs. The Book<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SULley8pEwI/AAAAAAAAARU/AAI9orjHg9I/s1600-h/1207082116.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SULley8pEwI/AAAAAAAAARU/AAI9orjHg9I/s320/1207082116.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279034030466601730" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;">"If I squint just right, it looks awesome."</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Sure, making a few pages of a book turn all by themselves SEEMS easy enough. Not so much. Not to mention that we are filming all this on a FisherPrice</span> Kidcorder. White balance? What's that? Think you have to save up more box tops for that option.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SULnUBfDosI/AAAAAAAAARc/HH1rbs8qlXk/s1600-h/51zaPk%2BDkoL._SL500_AA280_.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 193px; height: 193px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SULnUBfDosI/AAAAAAAAARc/HH1rbs8qlXk/s320/51zaPk%2BDkoL._SL500_AA280_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279036044413739714" border="0" /></a><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Not Shown: Heartache, Loss of God, Lamentations, Gnashing of Teeth<br /><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454566688172223156.post-17329233958228675472008-12-08T13:03:00.000-08:002008-12-17T08:07:17.391-08:00Day 5: Snowball Fight<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">How do you make snowball fly through the air in stop motion? We can't tell you, so we sure as heck can't show you. Instead, here is a picture of our hallway.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgX99GEiQI/AAAAAAAAATc/a20IFjKKCV4/s1600-h/IMG_2004.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgX99GEiQI/AAAAAAAAATc/a20IFjKKCV4/s400/IMG_2004.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280496916231391490" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">It's nice to work at a place with an unoccupied 1st floor. It would be even nicer if somebody would turn on the heat once in a while. Whoever moves in down there next will have to have the smell of brine surgically removed from their soul, trust me.<br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454566688172223156.post-16868012711521275582008-12-08T11:55:00.000-08:002008-12-16T13:02:40.547-08:00Day 4: Keeping it Kosher<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Among other things, today we animated a kosher pickle walking his little pickle dog. Miniature fire hydrants are hard to find for some reason, so Cara worked one up for us. Oh, and we also drank...a little. That might be why it took until 3 AM to get the shot...that and trying to make pickle pup's tale wag just right.<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgWBjuUUiI/AAAAAAAAATM/9tlV0bnd68c/s1600-h/IMG_1978.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgWBjuUUiI/AAAAAAAAATM/9tlV0bnd68c/s400/IMG_1978.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280494779117097506" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgW-fn0AEI/AAAAAAAAATU/bPT21izOz_o/s1600-h/IMG_1977.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgW-fn0AEI/AAAAAAAAATU/bPT21izOz_o/s400/IMG_1977.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280495825988091970" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgV0DGNtrI/AAAAAAAAATE/FAlWXQeOTuQ/s1600-h/IMG_2010.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgV0DGNtrI/AAAAAAAAATE/FAlWXQeOTuQ/s400/IMG_2010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280494547020658354" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Vodka: the only possible explanation for this.</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454566688172223156.post-22285323606275820592008-12-08T09:38:00.000-08:002008-12-17T08:05:02.723-08:00Day 3: The Sway of Things<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Making pickles sway in time with the song might sound easy. We thought it would be. We were wrong...very, very wrong. Nobody told us math would be involved, but there was. I've purged it from my memory as to make more room for Family Guy quotes, but I know it was like long division and fractions and such.<br /><br />We had to mount (I suppose they would describe it as "impale") pickles on pencils shoved through the bottom of our set and then rock them all in unison via the ingenious application of foam core. Observe:<br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgS1rtncDI/AAAAAAAAASs/pWL37QKcLL0/s1600-h/IMG_2003.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgS1rtncDI/AAAAAAAAASs/pWL37QKcLL0/s400/IMG_2003.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280491276568326194" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">"You're going to put those where? Oh, hell nah!"<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgUh9IIuSI/AAAAAAAAAS0/rfuvrpbkilU/s1600-h/IMG_2002.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgUh9IIuSI/AAAAAAAAAS0/rfuvrpbkilU/s400/IMG_2002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280493136668834082" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">And you think your cubicle is cramped.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgSEPKjPHI/AAAAAAAAASk/WfCab2HK9oI/s1600-h/IMG_2000.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgSEPKjPHI/AAAAAAAAASk/WfCab2HK9oI/s400/IMG_2000.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280490427091467378" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Cara moves the "rig" using only her mind.</span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454566688172223156.post-83303351480526937322008-12-08T07:30:00.000-08:002008-12-16T12:38:20.454-08:00Day 2: Finishing Up the Set<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;">"Hey Rankin and Bass, check this out, you noobs." -- Cara<br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgQUJKfrdI/AAAAAAAAASU/HImza_Vnl88/s1600-h/IMG_1982.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgQUJKfrdI/AAAAAAAAASU/HImza_Vnl88/s400/IMG_1982.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280488501335272914" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgQLF0bSEI/AAAAAAAAASM/pUtVpBQOuyk/s1600-h/IMG_1979.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgQLF0bSEI/AAAAAAAAASM/pUtVpBQOuyk/s400/IMG_1979.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280488345818581058" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgRcs5UDEI/AAAAAAAAASc/kVJHRxILCbA/s1600-h/IMG_1984.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUgRcs5UDEI/AAAAAAAAASc/kVJHRxILCbA/s400/IMG_1984.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280489747877465154" border="0" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3454566688172223156.post-17257203647201487652008-12-07T06:05:00.000-08:002008-12-17T08:02:48.769-08:00Day 1: Wardrobe and Props and SomesuchesThanks to Cara's fine sartorial work, I now think of pickles as being either dressed or naked. Did you know that the fingertips from winter gloves make perfect pickle beanies? No. No you did not. Cara did...for some reason. And what couldn't be bought and mutilated, she created from scratch. The craft is strong with that one. The stands were soldered together by me, Will. I burnt seven of my fingers (badly) doing so. Clearly, the craft is weak in me...as was noted more than once, trust me.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUZkavF8z7I/AAAAAAAAARk/oft7cWTVr2M/s1600-h/1123081604.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUZkavF8z7I/AAAAAAAAARk/oft7cWTVr2M/s320/1123081604.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280018023619284914" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:78%;">Backstage: Yes. The beers are wearing hats.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUZliCeOxqI/AAAAAAAAARs/GJM216ZHTi8/s1600-h/1207081359.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUZliCeOxqI/AAAAAAAAARs/GJM216ZHTi8/s320/1207081359.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280019248592111266" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">The corks have eyes. Freaking me out, man.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUZl5tDd-pI/AAAAAAAAAR0/Ndc8TpfFq1s/s1600-h/1206081443.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PRDmeTHkNAo/SUZl5tDd-pI/AAAAAAAAAR0/Ndc8TpfFq1s/s320/1206081443.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280019655159577234" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Cara spray paints the "invisible" pickle stands...which are clearly invisible.</span><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0