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Tag Archives: Creepshow
Building a Blog You Can Walk Into
I’m working under the gun, as usual, and I have to put together a 20 minute presentation for the “Ooh Blogging is a Place on Earth” presentation I’ll be delivering in Dublin next week at ILTA’s 25th anniversary EdTech conference. … 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
Creepshow Beach Show
A few weeks ago I got a comment on a video I uploaded featuring elements of the Creepshow diorama I was working on for bavastudio. It was a solid piece of outreach for a coming event, to be sure, but … Continue reading
Mission Accomplished bava.studio
Feeling pretty good right now. A friend of mine in Trento, Andrea, passed along a message from the Trento Strano group somewhere on WhatsApp—or whereever it is Italians are Italian together online. I had told Andrea, and also mentioned the … Continue reading
Be More Bea
The designer I worked with for the Creepshow diorama “Something to Tide You Over” added the project to her website. I have to say it looks pretty awesome! I love the way she highlights the four panels created for the … Continue reading
Something to Tide Me Over
I was doing a little checking on the bavablog, and I have three blog posts titled “Something to Tide You Over,” which is probably not very good for delineation and discovery. Then again, bavatuesdays has always been a b blog. … Continue reading
bav-o-rama: Of Windows and Walls
The build-out of the bav-o-rama exhibit space is finished, and I’m thrilled with how it turned out. The plan was to have a window space to recreate movie scenes: think of it like NYC’s Museum of Natural History, just with … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi Video Looper on Zero Pi W
After some frustration with the motion detection bit of the Creepshow diorama, I took solace in getting a $10 Zero Pi W (version 1.1) up and running with Raspberry Pi Video Looper. Essentially this project turns the Pi into a … Continue reading
Creepshow Diorama: Lights, Camera, Sand!
Update: If you are looking for the actual finished diorama go to the end of this rather long making-of post. As the window area of the bav-o-rama is being finished, I’m trying to get the final pieces of the diorama … Continue reading
Something to Tide You Over
I’ve been making some progress collecting the various elements needed for the Creepshow (1982) episode “Something to Tide You Over” diorama. This will be the first diorama in the bavastudio space, and I’m pretty excited. I guess the first thing … Continue reading
