I should blog more...

I most definitivly should. Almost two months since last time, and that was just about cakes. Silly cakes... More substantial posts to come soon.

Cakes! Because you're worth it.

Here's some more sugary goodness. It's fun creating stuff out of flour, egg, sugar and fat. And marzipan!
(Eating them are quit fun too)

When I am not sewing, hammering or gluing...

Being in the start up phase as a freelance prop builder and costume make in a rather small town is hard. There's just so many projects going on at any given time - and you are not on top of the producers list - simply just because of lack of experience. On top of that, not having a driver's license, limits my possibilities to offer my services elsewhere.

So what do I do? I fill the time doing something creative and completely different. Well, it might not be THAT completely different, just switched the tools and materials with something else; namely sugar, egg and flour.

Dimensionally Transcendental

Feel bigger on the inside today. No, it's not just because I've watched "Journey to the centre of the TARDIS" several times the last few days. I'm bubbling on the inside. So much I want to do - so many ideas. But the everyday things I have to do stops the fun plans. In the end, I just don't do anything...

Scrambled eggs?

EGGS-EGGS-EGGS-TER-MINATE!

A dear friend of mine is building a dalek these days. Don't know what a Dalek is? Shame on you, your pop cultural knowledge is severely lacking. I'll explain after the jump. Anyway, he's building one, a NSD to be correct - the one both of us think look the best of them all.

Time to make some costumes again.

Did have a clean up to figure out what we have and what we're missing of textiles for the Graaland project. 4 weeks for the deadline and I better hurry up to get the costumes done in time. A lot of wool, faux fur and pleather along with some other synthetic fabrics.

First studio set up

Did work as a scenographer for a Oslo based publisher earlier this fall. Colours! Colours everywhere!

Pirates, o'hoi!

"Speak like a pirate" Day passed by yesterday and BraSt is having a pirate themed party tonight. I was asked to make them a treasure chest to be used as the prize of a treasure hunt on the campus of Hedmark University College. What I didn't know; they planned the hunt to start 08:00 AM, not PM as I had presumed. shite

On location with Epica ("Skogen")

In late April, Epica had a medieval workshop, just to practice on action sequences. Of course we could have done it all in our regular clothes, but where's the fun in that? Our love for history and fantasy won over and the workshop got medieval inspired. After all, bows and swords are a whole lot cooler than guns.

Beautiful archer, deadly aim!  (photo: frame grab)

More after the jump. 

Prison guard costume sketch ("Skogen")

While working on ideas for the not-yet-named project next week, I figured I could just call it Skogen (the forest) as the setting is in middle of a forest. Without knowing more of the backstory, I have given him dark colours, making him kind of a bad guy. After all, he is the prisoner's guard - it's not nice to keep prisoners. At least when the prisoner is more of a slave. :P

New project!

The locally based Epica is having a workshop this coming week. The idea is to improve their action sequence skills. Which means, experimenting with camera angles, shots and editing. I have been asked to assist with costumes and props. The shooting is in five days, we still don't know who's going to have which roles. Not easy making costumes from scratch then. Gaaah!

Sketches and more actual work soon!

Welcome to the Stiiigur World!

I build my world out of cardboard and cookies, and glue, and sugar, egg, flour and loads of love.

Welcome to the Stiiigur blog, a site dedicated to the work I've done - either by myself or projects I've been a part of. May it be animation or film, cakes or catering, carpenting or knitting, or maybe modelmaking?