Now, for something altogether different. Everyone knows I have a ton of film strip gear. I’ve been promising myself since October that I’d do something with the gear itself. I finally did so and made a sculpture out of one of the projectors. It is fully functional, just much much more attractive (and cleaner inside). The plan is to make a few of these for shows…and make specific film strips for each projector.

Here is what I started with:

The end result is a “steam punk” looking projector and is my first try at hand painting anything since elementary school…much less attaching parts to things (first, I had an aborted “military camo” version, but it was accidental and sucked!).  Here are some shots:

Hopefully, I’ll add some more, smaller detail work to this but I’m just not sure what to add yet. I’d like to make the next ones a little more elaborate. I’ve ordered some neon/LED lighting…and I’d like to replace the inside projection lamp with something a little newer and a little less 500-watts-y. I’m going to be building a modern “sci-fi” one, a gore-covered “zombie” projector, and possibly also an Amanda Fucking Palmer Punk Rock Cabaret Special to give to Amanda. We’ll see.