It's Bink's birthday today.
We've known each other twenty-seven years. In the middle bit, we were partners. I remember watching Doctor Who with her way back when, on her little b&w TV.
To launch our new movie-making partnership, I made her this Dalek: Happy Birthday Bink!!!
The dalek is mobile: its base is a toy race car.
I used a funnel for it head; its body is cardboard covered in Asian gold joss paper; the arms are car parts I found in the alley; and the bosses and eyes are candy buttons (which I can't recommend: they melt in glue and slide all over the surface they are supposed to be sticking to).
Also blue tape, rubber bands, and glue.
Maybe there are some people who don't know what a dalek is supposed to look like?
Just in case, here's a photo of one.
They come in different models, but none of them are winsome.
Yet there's something adorable about them, like wacked-out cousins of Robby the Robot, even though all they ever want to do is "Exterminate."
[Knitted Daleks here.]
We've known each other twenty-seven years. In the middle bit, we were partners. I remember watching Doctor Who with her way back when, on her little b&w TV.
To launch our new movie-making partnership, I made her this Dalek: Happy Birthday Bink!!!
The dalek is mobile: its base is a toy race car.
I used a funnel for it head; its body is cardboard covered in Asian gold joss paper; the arms are car parts I found in the alley; and the bosses and eyes are candy buttons (which I can't recommend: they melt in glue and slide all over the surface they are supposed to be sticking to).
Also blue tape, rubber bands, and glue.
Maybe there are some people who don't know what a dalek is supposed to look like? Just in case, here's a photo of one.
They come in different models, but none of them are winsome.
Yet there's something adorable about them, like wacked-out cousins of Robby the Robot, even though all they ever want to do is "Exterminate."
[Knitted Daleks here.]
