Every day is an adventure
When you're mentally unstable
So, after finishing my AutoCad class this morning I decided I would go to Columbus. I had heard rumor of a magical place, and had to see if such a place could actually exist. My efforts were rewarded....
I found a Dick Blick store!
For those of you who don't know, I'm extremely retarded when it comes to art supplies. They refer to me as a "silicon-whore" up here, which is a joke about a company called Smooth-on, they make super high-end molding and casting products. Whenever I get bored, I find myself researching materials. The two best places I have found online are Dick Blick (www.dickblick.com) and Douglas and Sturgess (www.artstuf.com). Van Dyke's taxidermy out of South Dakota is pretty fucking awesome too, but the two previously mentioned are my favorites. After going to Daytona to FX Warehouse INC. to try and buy some latex, only to find out it was exclusively a warehouse for an online business, saddened me. So, I assumed all the wonderful web-sites were indeed too good to be true, and only existed in a virtual world. I was wrong.
I can't recall being so happy walking into a store, especially one that size. It's smaller than Michael's, but it is PACKED with goodness. I spent 20+ minutes on one aisle alone. Their sculpture row had all kinds of tools for clay modeling, kiln equipment, precious metal clay locked up in a case, water-based clay for ceramics, oil-based clays for modeling, wood for carving and appropriate tools, stone for carving with appropriate tools, all manner of brass and aluminum tubing, sheeting, mesh, bars, and rods for model-making, glass rods for glass sculpture, a wide assortment of sea sponges, and a quarter of that row dedicated to molding and casting materials: clear casting resin, moulage, plaster, latex rubber, rubRmold, FIBERGLASS bandages (I have never even heard of that shit before!), plastic casting resins, alginate kits, micro-crystallin modelling wax, Moldwax, paper-clay, instant papier-mache' brands, and a few things on the bottom row that I didn't look at. It was beautiful, I even developed a crush on one of the girls who worked there. She led me to the silicon-color shapers on the paint row, I felt like i was being led by an angel. We talked for a moment, and she left me in my state of bliss, coming in to check on me a few more times before I left. In retrospect it was probably because I looked like I was trippin balls or something, staring at everything on the shelf like I had never seen anything like it before in my life.
So, I was star-struck by a store. I even signed up for a Dick Blick preferred members card, it'll save me 10% on all purchases for no cost, and they'll send me free catalogs for life (they still do in charlotte for all the shit i bought online).
It's funny, for the first time I actually thought I could be happily-married...to that store
I know it's nerdy, but if you only knew what those boxes of powder and clay can become in the right hands. If my life were a video game, i just received a +3 to all art skills
I'm thinking about attempting a torso cast on me, by msyelf tomorrow. We'll see how it turns out...
So, after finishing my AutoCad class this morning I decided I would go to Columbus. I had heard rumor of a magical place, and had to see if such a place could actually exist. My efforts were rewarded....
I found a Dick Blick store!
For those of you who don't know, I'm extremely retarded when it comes to art supplies. They refer to me as a "silicon-whore" up here, which is a joke about a company called Smooth-on, they make super high-end molding and casting products. Whenever I get bored, I find myself researching materials. The two best places I have found online are Dick Blick (www.dickblick.com) and Douglas and Sturgess (www.artstuf.com). Van Dyke's taxidermy out of South Dakota is pretty fucking awesome too, but the two previously mentioned are my favorites. After going to Daytona to FX Warehouse INC. to try and buy some latex, only to find out it was exclusively a warehouse for an online business, saddened me. So, I assumed all the wonderful web-sites were indeed too good to be true, and only existed in a virtual world. I was wrong.
I can't recall being so happy walking into a store, especially one that size. It's smaller than Michael's, but it is PACKED with goodness. I spent 20+ minutes on one aisle alone. Their sculpture row had all kinds of tools for clay modeling, kiln equipment, precious metal clay locked up in a case, water-based clay for ceramics, oil-based clays for modeling, wood for carving and appropriate tools, stone for carving with appropriate tools, all manner of brass and aluminum tubing, sheeting, mesh, bars, and rods for model-making, glass rods for glass sculpture, a wide assortment of sea sponges, and a quarter of that row dedicated to molding and casting materials: clear casting resin, moulage, plaster, latex rubber, rubRmold, FIBERGLASS bandages (I have never even heard of that shit before!), plastic casting resins, alginate kits, micro-crystallin modelling wax, Moldwax, paper-clay, instant papier-mache' brands, and a few things on the bottom row that I didn't look at. It was beautiful, I even developed a crush on one of the girls who worked there. She led me to the silicon-color shapers on the paint row, I felt like i was being led by an angel. We talked for a moment, and she left me in my state of bliss, coming in to check on me a few more times before I left. In retrospect it was probably because I looked like I was trippin balls or something, staring at everything on the shelf like I had never seen anything like it before in my life.
So, I was star-struck by a store. I even signed up for a Dick Blick preferred members card, it'll save me 10% on all purchases for no cost, and they'll send me free catalogs for life (they still do in charlotte for all the shit i bought online).
It's funny, for the first time I actually thought I could be happily-married...to that store
I know it's nerdy, but if you only knew what those boxes of powder and clay can become in the right hands. If my life were a video game, i just received a +3 to all art skills
I'm thinking about attempting a torso cast on me, by msyelf tomorrow. We'll see how it turns out...