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Jim and Jane Henson at their wedding, 5-28-1959. Photo by Del Ankers.
Miss Piggy from Muppets Take Manhattan, 1984
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Same people, different jobs.
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itsakaylee asked: Hey! I know it was a random generator that technically had me win but I just wanted to thank you guys so much for the compliment on my Wreck This Journal! Seeing my name show up as the winner got me all super excited especially since I share my birthday with this blog and Frank Oz himself! =D
That is AWESOME! And happy belated birthday, babe! It was one of my great disappointments in life when discovering a website that claimed Frank’s birthday was on the 27th (today, my birthday) only to discover later on it was wrong.
I thought I should explore a little on the blog of my winner. So yay! Another Doctor Who fan, too. XD
Congrats again. :D
Sorry because I’m late with this, so all notes counting… comes to 127! So that’s the number I’m putting in, but if I land on a like, it doesn’t count. Because I originally said so but people “liked” it anyway, so messes up the number game a little…
But they don’t count so there.
And the winner is…
Check her journal, won’t you? She seems like a pretty swell gal, all creative and stuff. And that Wreck This Journal looks mighty adorable.
Congrats to Kaylee!
In regards to the next give away we’re at 724 or something followers, so I’m going to do a give away at 1,000 followers … mostly because I STILL can’t decide on what to give away then. :X
(I mean I have things I can give away, but IDK. I’ll figure it out by then, I’m sure.)
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Holy moley, I finished it! Sooo, it didn’t turn out exactly how I’d planned (when does it ever?) but I’m still pretty pleased with it.
I had originally planned NOT to use black outlines, but when I started pencilling in all the little pi-rats, well, they were just too small to work without the outlining. I suppose if this piece was much, much larger, or maybe in a different medium, I could figure it out. But in the end, I decided “screw it”, because otherwise I was just fiddling and experimenting and afraid to actually commit anything to paper. I finally decided that it was better to do the best I could, even if it wasn’t *exactly perfect*, rather than just never finish it at all. And since I’m about to move again, I wanted to finish this before the move or else I was afraid I wouldn’t touch it again for a long, long time.
This was inspired by a Disneyland ride that never happened (alas and woe), featuring a described scene similar to this. This piece is an attempt to mimic the look of retro sci-fi movie posters. I’m reasonably pleased with how close I got, considering it’s my first attempt, and despite the black outlines (which give it more of a comic book feel, I think).
Rizzo turned out too dark, but I’m pretty happy with the lighting on the pigs’ faces. The scanning is questionable - this piece looks better in person. Plus, I had to scan it in 4 pieces and put it back together in Photoshop.
This is 100% hand done (including the lettering, which was either totally hand-drawn or else traced by hand from a computer print-out) in Copic marker on 14 x 17 inch smooth bristol board.
Dude. Are you telling me there was going to be a Pigs in Space RIDE?! Man, oh man, that is like the best and worst birthday present ever. XD
but this is BEAU-itful. Yay for Rizzo getting a big part! LOL.
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Jim’s script for The Great Muppet Caper with his annotations.
It’s Kermit! He’s beautiful. And I think it’s what he’d like to be.
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I was a huge Ninja Turtle nut back in the late 80’s/early 90’s. This is a scan of one of my old movie trading cards from the first TMNT movie, one of Jim’s last projects (and one of my favorite movies to this day).
The back of the card reads:
“Creature creator extraordinaire Jim Henson poses with Leonardo in-between takes. The Turtle costumes, operated by computerized radio waves and servo motors, can execute convincing back flips - shells and all!
This movie is awesome, I totally agree. I have some screencaps from the behind the scenes of the second movie. Kevin Clash as Splinter is nothing short of brilliant! (Pretty certain he’s the only performer to do the puppeteering and voice. The turtles were all dubbed. Correct me if I’m wrong.) It was gritty and dark and real and very fun.
Muppet Avengers, part 1 of 13(?) Probably 13.
Making Gonzo Tony Stark was the easiest decision. Gonzo’s slightly self-centered (he calls himself “the Great”), he’s a notorious womanizer (or at least chickenizer) who manages to balance that with a steady girlfriend, and he’s certainly extremely liable to dress in a stupid outfit, set himself on fire, and launch himself out of tall buildings.
And with that obviously comes Camilla as Pepper Potts.
Up next…I still believe in groovy heroes.
I’ll just be over here worshiping you from a-close.