Happy Hallowinch! I Got A Rock vs I Gotta Rock, Making Messy Inchscapes
Happy Halloween from LOVELAND, Detroit! This is about as far as I got on a pumpkin this year. Oh hey dere lil guy. Not very scary, but fear is overrated:
I’m sad that the music video for my favorite Halloween video seems to be taken down everywhere but here’s audio of Kid Koala turning Charlie Brown’s “I got a rock :(” Halloween moment into “I gotta rock! :)” [UPDATE: Ugh, and it looks like it only lets me post 30 seconds of it here — you’re a jerk, internet, a real jerk.]
Yesterday I went to Home Depot and got some supplies for making LOVELAND artifacts, mostly square inch and square foot tiles. I dug up some dirt from Recovery — the first inchvestor property in Detroit — and experimented with gluing it to the tiles, seeing how real physical simulations of the property look as art works or souvenirs or tiny coasters or trays or landscapes however you want to think about them.
The square inches are pretty easy and look pretty cute, but I got into trouble with the square feet. A beautiful mess in progress:
Egad, Batman, it’s a sloppy Detroit Pollock earth pizza with extra Elmer’s!
And then Mary threw a ball into it and it fell on the floor:
As Kelly danced past the door:
Picture something like this:
But it’s like the shirt says, hunting is everything:
If you spend enough time in the forest you catch your shiz eventually. Now go eat some candy. Onward!
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