We finished the chair in time to take it in with us today, when we visited lil’ Piper. She fit in it perfectly. Unfortunately, she was in a really grouchy mood the whole time that we were there, today. I think that she was trying to fall asleep, when we arrived. So, to her, our visit was just pushing back nap time. I would have been annoyed, too. Here is part two of the chair building exercise. Again, no jaw-dropping editing or anything special. Soundtrack is Mighty Dub Katz, remixed by Norman Cook.

Here are a couple of more photos of working on the chair. I should have actually named this post “chair overkill” Because, I’m realizing that is what’s going on here, as I wrap this thing up.

Ok, obviously this project isn’t so secret, if there is a movie about it on the interwebz. One of our good friends painted a little chair for Piper, not too long ago. It is really cute, and Piper likes to sit on it. But she hasn’t quite grown into it yet (i.e. her feet don’t quite touch the ground when she is sitting in it). So one of her therapists suggested to Reagan that we get Piper a smaller chair, in the interim. Instead of buying her one, I thought it would be fun to make one for her. So, I got started on it Monday night. I drew it up, cut it and assembled it. The batteries died on the flip right before I started putting it together. I think that it is just as well. Because, this video is at 10x speed and it is still 4 mins long (kind of  a large time commitment, I know [especially if you have as short of an attention span as I do]). There are a few extended shots of my booty. Be sure to enjoy those, hahahaha. Reagan will be in charge of painting it. Hopefully it will be done by the end of the week. I’m not much of a video editor, and I didn’t really get creative with the sound track either (if you hate Girltalk, mute it). Having the disclaimer out of the way, here is part one of the chair build:

People tend to get stir crazy, when they are sick and it is too cold spend any sort of quality time out doors. We do, anyway. Saturday, it was barely in the double digits outside, and it felt even colder because of the wind. Reagan had an appt on the UWS early in the afternoon. I decided to pick her up afterward, so that I could say I had been out of the house, hahaha. When we were trying to figure out what to do for the rest of the evening, I came up with this kind of corny idea about making some miniature ppl and photographing them. There were a few things that I have seen recently that gave me the idea. There was this thing that I saw on Boing Boing. There was also a thing that I saw on a blog kept by some of our acquaintances from Harlem. Finally, let’s not forget this Seth Green-esque weirdness.

So, we stopped by the Michael’s on the UWS and picked up some FIMO, then picked up some burritos at Ch#$%$, and headed home. Kelly, I would like you to know that per your fine fine suggestion, I have now added a burrito tag and category.

We made various little models, so that we could have a few options of scenarios, to shoot.

By the time that we finished building all of the little guys, and baking them in the oven, we were kind of running out of energy to get really fancy with the photos. But, we did have a lot of fun with the underwater scenario (shot in the fish tank). Reagan suspended a little scuba diver and mermaid from some of her hair. Yes, she tied one of her hairs around them (her idea [an awesome one]). Hahahaha. The baby convicts and the gold fish were the funniest part about it. They were so incredibly curious about what was going on, that they are in just about every shot. Look how curious the little convicts are in the shot below, when Reagan first dropped in the mermaid.

Ok, so here is the real ripoff. Our friend Zach always puts together these awesome time-lapse videos of stuff that they do. I have been super curious to try my hand at making one, for a while. I didn’t get very fancy, like he does, with the music and everything. But, if you want to see my first crack at a time-lapse video, click play below, to watch Reagan and I building little Fimo guys.

If you want to check out a few more photos of the Fimo ppl and some other randomness, click through here.