A Change of Meds

Sunday, January 28, 2024

Time for another health update. I am now on sick leave from work, enforced by my consultant, who said, "Health is more important than work", which, when it comes to the crunch, it surely is. Anyway, it has now been nine days since my last dosage of Methotrexate, which strangely stopped working for me this past month or so. I now have to have a flu and covid jab and await a home visit from "the Biologics Team", who will give me my first of forever-more fortnightly injections of the expensive and, apparently, miracle drug Dupilumab. After being instructed in its storage and use, future injections will be administered by myself (or, more probably, my wife, lol). If this medication is as fantastic as all the consultants and nurses say it is, the future looks 🌞...

Ramshorn Water Snails Nano Tank

I recently set up a nano rams-horn snail aquarium from an old jar, a couple of moss balls and some green sea glass I have gathered over the years during my numerous beachcombs. The snails seem to have settled in well, and they have been feeding off the debris among the old moss, and the tank should become a self-care environment. They self-regulate their egg-laying depending on how well they are dining, so it should be easy to tell whether I need to add a few flakes of fish food to the jar...

 

Guy N Smith - The Cadaver (Lego Book Cover Version

 Saturday, January 27, 2024

Kleenex was used for the ground mist, whilst incense smoke provided the air fog.

Guy N Smith - The Wood Book Cover (Lego Version)

 Friday, January 27, 2024

Today's Lego diorama attempt. Tried a few different heads and had to make do, as Lego just doesn't get that pulp horror look right, lol.

 

Guy N Smith - A Trio of Lego Book Cover Versions

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Alligators, Werewolf by Moonlight and Doomflight by Guy N Smith (lego versions). These are coming together fast and furious now...

        

       

        

Guy N Smith -The Pony Riders (Lego Version)

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

"They ride like the wind... and shoot like the devil."

Guy N Smith - The Puto Pact (Lego Cover Version)

Tuesday, 23 January, 2024

This was one of my more difficult book covers to recreate using lego:

The Pluto Pact by Guy N Smith

Lego mini-plates with lego chains

 I used the Grunge feature on my mobile phone
camera to grittify the cube

 

The finalised image

Wolfcurse by Guy N Smith (Alternative Lego Cover)

 Monday, 22 January, 2024

Stehen King - Salem's Lot (Lego Version)

Sunday, 21 January, 2024

My lego version of the scariest scene ever filmed - the floating vampire boy in his pyjamas scratching at the bedroom window in Salem's Lot. Scroll down through the photos to see how I achieved the effect of floating and how I managed to leave enough light through the side of the piece to give the boy an ethereal glow.

Also, to add to the effect, click play on the media below:

Guy N Smith - Crabs Moon (Lego Version)

Saturday, 20 January, 2024

Today, I  mostly worked on a Lego version of GNS' Crabs Moon:

The Witch

Friday, 19 January 2024 

Next up in my folk horror library of folk horror is one of my favourites - The Witch. "Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?"

 

Sunrise over Swansea

Thursday, 18 January, 2024

The morning sun burnishes the sky whilst the Port Talbot steelworks add to the distant cloud cover

Bjork ~ The Juniper Tree

Wednesday, 17 January 2024

It's time to start organising my personal film, TV and book library on my favourite genre, folk horror. I'll start with this beauty of a film. It stars the one and only Bjork and is based on the classic Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale. The BFI Blu-ray release is pristine and is loaded with extras, including some rare old folk horror shorts. The first pressings also hit the shelves with an informative guide to the film and its restoration.

Gin Bottle Lights

After emptying the contents of the above bottle or raspberry gin :o/, I stuffed it with some old Christmas Tree lights. I have to admit, I rather like the result :o)

Stephen King Lego

Monday, 15 January 2024

I finally found a vampire head and white hands for my lego pyjama boy. Can you guess what Stephen King scene I am working on?