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Super Flippy

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posted July 29, 2002 17:15

The giant prarie dog brought back fond memories of the summer when my sister and I went to art camp. We teamed up on the papier mache project and made a giant kangaroo, complete with joey in its pocket (we called it "baby kangaroo on-a-stick"). I wonder where that thing is now? I bet my mom still has it in the attic.

So tell, delve into your memory and relate your papier-mache triumphs and tragedies! Somebody out there must have a funny story about the balloon or lightbulb projects you always end up doing around 4th grade.

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neotatsu
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posted July 29, 2002 17:59

well, my brother did a lightbulb and decided to see what would happen if he screwed it in and turned the light on while the paper machet was only partially dry...long story short the light socket had to be repaired and there was glass and paper machet everywhere...

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Tut-an-Geek

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posted July 30, 2002 03:07

i made a globe, and painted it, it came out extrememly well

i also made another globe, i hung it, and my brother ran into my room, and he hit it, and “long story short” no more globe

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GrumpySteen

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posted July 30, 2002 10:51

When I was 5th or 6th grade, we had a class project where everyone created masks of characters from The Phantom Tollbooth and we acted out parts of the book in class. I created a Doctor Discord mask with huge ears. If I'm not mistaken, I threw it away after one of the ears got knocked off on the way home.

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Super Flippy

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posted July 30, 2002 12:45

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Originally posted by ilovemydualg4:
i also made another globe, i hung it, and my brother ran into my room, and he hit it, and “long story short” no more globe

Next time, fill it with candy before your brother hits it.

My mom made a paper-mache pinata for my birthday once, long ago. Even though she's an art teacher, this particular project gave her trouble (she used the Balloon Method). It ended up looking like a giant, fuzzy yellow beehive. Of course, we kids didn't care as long as there was candy inside!

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Snaggy

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posted July 30, 2002 13:33

The last paper mache thingy I made was a model of a scarecrow... paper mache stuffing, with straw and clothing and a little hat...

I used it as part of a hologram installation, shadowgrams of crows were scared by a hologram of a scarecrow, with illumination sinc'd up to a looping sound track of fields insects and squawking crows.

heh, it drove the gallery people nuts.

Anyway, the scarecrow model was at Geek Culture Headquarters v.1.0 for a long time. No one bought it at the Great Yard Sale, so I ceremoniously burned it the night before we moved out West... it went up in spectacular flames of glory!

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GrumpySteen

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posted July 31, 2002 06:30

Snaggy wrote:
I used it as part of a hologram installation, shadowgrams of crows were scared by a hologram of a scarecrow, with illumination sinc'd up to a looping sound track of fields insects and squawking crows.

That sounds awesome! I don't suppose there are any photos you could point us to, are there?

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