Home Again

We're back and truth be told the booth worked out great. I'm really happy with how it packs up. The backdrop worked out great. Lighting was a bit spotty but that was taken care of by a mad dash to Target.

I'm actually ready to get back to work on it... Just over two months until the Mission Tiki event!

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Retro-active posting!

Yes. Despite not having posted about it, Sunday did indeed occur. No need to throw away your calendars, they still work.

Most efforts were spent on finishing(?) touches on the sign and working on product. Now that we are in fact only a few days out on this shindig let's look at where we stand.

Booth

• needs to be packed -never made any cases for the tops but they should be ok this time.
• there are still a few things that could be tweaked but I have no time or energy for it now.
• Lighting - I have no idea if Joe will have something for this but we will have at least Troy's light.

Sign

• need to fill the bases with cement or something
• perhaps a few more finishing touches on the aging if there is opportunity

Everything else has come together pretty well. Most of the product is ready to go and while i will be working right up to the last moment, that is really no shock.

Saturday

While I spent the day working on product with the help of Maya, Caroline and Natalie,

Joe was busy working out how to mount the Fez-o-rama sign for the booth. With Ikabod's help it all went together rather easily.

Tomorrow we will start the finishing touches on the sign to make it look all neglected.

Monday

The Sign got its first coat of color today:
(picture to be added as soon as I take one)
The idea is to make it look like a worn-out roadside attraction sign.

The tricky part here is to make it look like it was painted by the un-skilled without making it actually look like it was painted by the un-skilled. This is totally against what I usually do. I'm usually trying to make myself look like I know what I'm doing...

Anyway, the plan is to distress to colors so they look like they've been in the sun and dirt for years, all while not paying for the right paints.

Sunday!

While we had many people over working on product and the Cult booth, a bit was done for the Fez-o-rama booth.

The signage had one more sanding pass and the front side got it's first coat of base paint. Many thanks to Caroline, Troy and Cannibal for working on that.

12 days and counting

Actually little was done on the Fez-o-rama booth today. Most of the focus was on the Cult of the Eye projects. We had the blessing of Tofujoe traveling from Oakland for the day to oversee the disassembly of the Tiki Booth and prep for the last of the work needed on that.

I was focused on CotE Fezzes, finally finishing the new version of the PontiFez for Stickmann.

1st Sunday after the 1st Full Moon after the Spring Equinox

Well after getting a later start due to having breakfast with my lovely wife, my mother and my grandfather; we went back to work on the signage.

Here you can see some more shaping done with a knife and Dremel then later, sanding blocks.
After that we attempted to fill in gaps with expanding foam. It worked fairly well but not perfectly. I'm sure there is a learning curve here but we have no time for that.


Tomorrow I will fill in the massive gap on the backside with foam and next week we will hopefully have this in paint.