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1 year ago
"I Don't Want To Miss The Regatta, Especially As I'm Leading It-"

"I don't want to miss the Regatta, especially as I'm leading it-"

Happy Tugs 34th anniversary! A proper celebratory art piece.

I have this idea of giving the tugs special paint jobs and accessories for the Regatta, @escapism-sailor suggested a tuxedo appearance for Top Hat. :3

Hope y'all had a great day! Peace and chicken grease. ✌️💕✨

And, y'know, Top Hat day, and also the lead of the parade. UwU


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1 year ago
Anyone Else Remember That Brief Period In The 2000s When Every Band Was Dressing Like This?
Anyone Else Remember That Brief Period In The 2000s When Every Band Was Dressing Like This?
Anyone Else Remember That Brief Period In The 2000s When Every Band Was Dressing Like This?
Anyone Else Remember That Brief Period In The 2000s When Every Band Was Dressing Like This?

Anyone else remember that brief period in the 2000s when every band was dressing like this?


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Sepia Tone Shot Of Steam Punk Goggles On A Top Hat.

Sepia tone shot of steam punk goggles on a top hat.


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11 years ago
I Made This Tiny Top Hat Last Week For A Mad Hatter Costume, Which Was A Great Success.

I made this tiny top hat last week for a Mad Hatter costume, which was a great success.

Sadly, I didn't get any photos of it the day I was wearing the costume. And I still haven't had a chance to do so, because I've been busy getting ready for a craft fair I'm vending at on Saturday. So I guess if this doesn't sell then, I'll take some time to photograph it and put it up for sale on my Etsy page.


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11 years ago
This Is An Edit And Remake Of A Mini Top Hat I Made Last Spring. The Adjustments To The Design Made It
This Is An Edit And Remake Of A Mini Top Hat I Made Last Spring. The Adjustments To The Design Made It
This Is An Edit And Remake Of A Mini Top Hat I Made Last Spring. The Adjustments To The Design Made It
This Is An Edit And Remake Of A Mini Top Hat I Made Last Spring. The Adjustments To The Design Made It

This is an edit and remake of a mini top hat I made last spring. The adjustments to the design made it quicker to construct, and more tidy once assembled. It's also slightly smaller, so it fails to fit on people's heads a bit better.

It's up for sale on my Etsy page, too! And I'm pretty happy with the design, so I think I'll leave it up as a product that I can always make!


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8 years ago
Heres The Hat I Painted To Complete A LARP Costume, To Go With My Assless Chaps. The Game As A Whole
Heres The Hat I Painted To Complete A LARP Costume, To Go With My Assless Chaps. The Game As A Whole

Here’s the hat I painted to complete a LARP costume, to go with my assless chaps. The game as a whole had a specific post-apocalyptic aesthetic. My character was the crazy old man from the outskirts of town, and I wanted a bold, simple tagline to put on a hat. I ended up doing this while thinking of a Mountain Goats song, about a retired wrestler growing old in the southwest. I was pretty damn happy with the font and design I came up with.

And, in good news, I avoided dying during that LARP!


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6 years ago
Tiny Top Hat! Always A Delight To Make. I Was Super Happy That I Had One Made When We Did This Photo
Tiny Top Hat! Always A Delight To Make. I Was Super Happy That I Had One Made When We Did This Photo

Tiny top hat! Always a delight to make. I was super happy that I had one made when we did this photo shoot. I think I’d made it the day before, and shipped it out to the customer the next day. 

Do not eat that mushroom.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/175158885/mini-leather-top-hat


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5 years ago
CAREFREE (Dir: Mark Sandrich, 1938).

CAREFREE (Dir: Mark Sandrich, 1938).

A frothy RKO romance; the 8th pairing of the incomparable Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

This one has Fred as a psychiatrist and Ginger as his patient and fiancee of his best pal (Ralph Bellamy). Things get complicated when she falls for him and he hypnotizes her to remain faithful to the groom. The movie's outcome is clearly signposted from early on, but there is considerable fun to be had on the journey, nonetheless.

With only four full-blown song and dance numbers Carefree is less a musical than a screwball comedy with the occasional break for a song. The Irving Berlin score is pleasant enough, but by the composer’s own high standards is not especially memorable. 'Change Partners' and 'I Used to Be Color Blind' are the possible exceptions; both are considerably enhanced by Ginger and Fred's fabulous footwork. The highlight is undoubtedly Astaire's solo 'Since They Turned Loch Lomand into Swing' in which he ditches Rogers to partner a golf-club, proving as adept on the fairway as he is the dance-floor.

Allan Scott and Ernest Pagnos screenplay, while implausible, does include a fair amount of humorous moments. While director Mark Sandrich, by now a veteran of the Astaire-Rogers movies, handles the comedy and the dance numbers with equal aplomb. It is all a lot of nonsense, but all is forgiven when Fred and Ginger take the dance floor. There was never a classier screen couple than Mr Astaire and Ms Rogers and support is offered by a particularly distinguished cast, notably Ralph Bellamy and Jack Carson. Unbilled and underused in one of her many domestic help roles is the great Hattie McDaniel.

As its title suggests, Carefree is lighthearted, featherweight stuff. Often regarded as the weakest of the Astaire-Rogers partnership, it does pale in comparison to classics such as Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935) and Shall We Dance (Mark Sandrich, 1937). Still, at a little over 80 minutes, it doesn't outstay its welcome. The old adage "they don't make 'em like that anymore" certainly applies here; fluff it may be, but it is consummately produced fluff, expertly performed by its legendary cast.

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Carefree (1938)
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Carefree (Dir: Mark Sandrich, 1938). A frothy RKO romance; the 8 th pairing of the incomparable Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

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4 years ago
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TOP HAT (Dir: Mark Sandrich, 1935).

From RKO Radio Pictures, Top Hat was the 4th of 10 pairings of the inimitable Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Where to begin? The screwball plot is some trifle about mistaken identity (isn’t it always?), as Ginger, believing Fred is the philandering husband of a friend, rebukes his advances and marries her dress designer instead (or does she?). Topnotch support comes from familiar faces Edward Everett Horton and Helen Broderick are the real husband and wife, Erik Rhodes the cuckolded couturier and Eric Blore as an asinine but resourceful manservant. As convoluted as it sounds the whole thing works beautifully. But who in the audience is really here for the plot? What we are here for is Astaire and Rogers at their artistic peak dancing up a storm to one of Irving Berlin's greatest musical scores and happily that is what we get.

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Top Hat (1935)
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Top Hat (Dir: Mark Sandrich, 1935). From RKO Radio Pictures,  Top Hat was the 4th of 10 pairing of the inimitable Fred Astaire and Ginger

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9 years ago
Inktober Day 1 I Haven't Used Real Ink On My Drawings In Forever.

Inktober day 1 I haven't used real ink on my drawings in forever.


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4 years ago
!!!!CW:GORE!!!Goretober Day 13:Murder

!!!!CW:GORE!!! Goretober day 13:Murder

"Oh God, Golden Ice...what have you done....stop staring at me like that!!" Also gotta love how I keep getting later and later with these lol.


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