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Category Archives: bavastudio
The Shining Stage Curtains
Quick update from bavastudio, I’ve had some custom curtains made for the diorama window, and I think they’re pretty awesome. I got the idea from the fact that the carpet in the Grady Twins hallway scene is actually not the … Continue reading
Tasso and Erminia
Tasso the Stuffed European Badger I’m happy to introduce the latest additions to bavastudio, even if a pivot from 80s aesthetic. While walking though a flea market in Trento last weekend I spotted a couple of stuffed animals (in the … Continue reading
The Ice is Gonna Break!
I mentioned already that after The Shining diorama I was planning on re-creating a scene from yet another Stephen King film adaptation, this time David Cronenberg’s Dead Zone (1984). I was wavering between Johnny’s vision of the young hockey players … Continue reading
Shining a Light on Diorama Costs
Did you like my cheap pun in the title? Good, because being cheap is what this post is all about. I mentioned trying to keep costs down in my “Making of The Shining Diorama” post, and I wanted to spell … Continue reading
The Shining Diorama Flickr Album
The previous, extremely long post on this blog was taken entirely from a Flickr album created to document the process of building out The Shining diorama. The project features an iconic scene wherein Danny encounters the Grady sisters in a … Continue reading
The Making of The Shining Diorama
I had the concept for featuring the “Come and Play with Us” scene from The Shining in the Bav-O-Rama before it was even built out. Originally I wanted to include Danny on the “big wheel” (it’s not actually a big … Continue reading
Come and Play with Us
In the two weeks since being visited by Canadian angels I was able to finish up the “Come and Play with Us” Bav-O-Rama featuring the scene where Danny encournters the Grady sisters in the hallway. It was a tour de … Continue reading
Art Therapy, Bava-O-Rama, and Blogging about Blogging
I’ve been pretty busy as of late, even if the blog doesn’t fully tell the tale of the tape. In fact, it’s been hard for me to keep up. Here’s a quick tally of all my blogging debts: I’m almost … Continue reading
Some Dioramas Shine
…and some don’t! For a few months now my diorama ode to the greatest horror movie ever made was hitting a serious creative block. That little man that lives inside my mouth was not speaking to me, and as a … Continue reading
VHS Stack #3
I had these tapes running last week while I was working from the office, and I got to watch all of Crumb (1994) and Planet of the Vampires (1965) and most of DEVO’sThe Men Who Make the Music (1979) and … Continue reading