Mad Caddies - Hell's Kitchen - Tacoma, WA

I don't know why it took so long to see the Mad Caddies in concert, but it was worth the wait. They were one of the bands that I listened to a LOT when I was in that really impressionable stage of music discovery in college. My friend Lisa and I got to go see them live at an extremely small venue called Hell's Kitchen in Tacoma, WA.

I contend that there is no better way to enjoy one of your favorite bands then live at a venue so small you can smell them. They did not disappoint, they rocked the crowd like they were in an arena of 10,000 people. Words cannot explain the electricity that was flowing through the room.

I split my time between dancing/ruining my voice singing and taking photos. I was surprised to get a couple of good photos despite the dark room and raucous crowd around me. At one point I even lost my SB-600 flash on the floor when I jumped into the fray. I was able to recover the flash later, so all was OK.

After the show I was completely exhausted, and I might have caught the flu, but it was worth it 100 times over. You can see some of the photos I nabbed on my flickr photostream.

Faux Finish - Toy Gun

I just finished up putting a new finish on this plastic toy gun. I employed a lot of the techniques I learned at Scott Allen Caplan's "Faux Finish" panel at SteamCon. You can see the work in progress photos along with descriptions of the process on my flickr page. This was a fun, cheap, and easy project. It is ideal for someone who is interested in prop making. I plan on using these techniques to finish some from-scratch project I have planned for the future.