[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-wigging-out":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Hurrah! Do you like my new wig???\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wigs_sarah-a377e5aba6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI just designed a bunch of hairpieces for my beastly boutique in \u003Ca href=\"http://www.discover.org.uk/schoolsandgroups/event/exhibition_welcome_to_monsterville_-_story_telling_workshop/\">Monsterville\u003C/a>, the real-life, 3-D monster village I'm building with Ed Vere, Neal Layton and the design team at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.discover.org.uk/\">Discover Children's Story Centre\u003C/a> in Stratford, northeast London. It opens on May 28th, so I'm trying to get as much finished as possible before I leave for America tomorrow. \\r\n\\r\nI won't be around on the blog as much for the next couple weeks. But I'll have lots to tell you about my trip when I get back, about \u003Cfont size=\"3\">\u003Ca href=\"http://www.moccany.org/content/mocca-festival\">MoCCA comics festival\u003C/a>\u003C/font> in \u003Cb>New York City\u003C/b> (Table K10 in the UK/Irish section) and \u003Cfont size=\"3\">\u003Ca href=\"http://www.stumptowncomics.com/\">Stumptown comics festival\u003C/a>\u003C/font> in \u003Cb>Portland, Oregon\u003C/b>. If you're in the States, maybe see you there. Come say hello and tell me who you are!\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wigs_ellen-a2e184cadf.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wig_lauren-baf9563ae8.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ci>The luscious \u003Ca href=\"http://www.littlewhitebird.com\">Ellen Lindner\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://whodunnknit.com/\">Lauren O'Farrell\u003C/a> (aka Deadlyknitshade)\u003C/font>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nEven though I'm rushing about like a crazy person getting ready, I had to dress up my studio mates in these fab wigs. Oh, and Elliot the intern. And Neal and Ed. I keep getting distracted putting wigs on people.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wig_gary-9106183934.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wig_elliot-d2f1bec6a5.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ci>The monstrously dashing \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://surrealistetiquette.blogspot.com\">Elliot Baggott\u003C/a>\u003C/font>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more wigs and a tour of Oxford's Story Museum!-->\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wig_neal-131ff9cf1a.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/wig_ed-cc6463dced.jpg\">\\r\n\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ci>My beautifully beastly co-designers \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neallayton.com\">Neal Layton\u003C/a> and \u003Ca href=\"http://www.edvere.com\">Ed Vere\u003C/a>\u003C/font>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nAnd if you can do a bit of Photoshop work, here are a few wigs if you want to dress up you and your friends! (If you put them on your blog or Facebook, could you please mention \u003Ca href=\"http://www.discover.org.uk/schoolsandgroups/event/exhibition_welcome_to_monsterville_-_story_telling_workshop/\">Monsterville\u003C/a> somewhere, so people know where it's from?)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/studio/sarah_wig1.jpg\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarah_wig1_sm-166414dd89.jpg\" width=\"170\">\u003C/a> \u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/studio/sarah_wig3.jpg\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarah_wig3_sm-e713c88d89.jpg\" width=\"170\">\u003C/a> \u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/studio/sarah_wig4.jpg\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarah_wig4_sm-e107b18035.jpg\" width=\"170\">\u003C/a> \u003Ca href=\"http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l27/jabberworks/studio/sarah_wig2.jpg\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarah_wig2_sm-e39b4e3b40.jpg\" width=\"170\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>Click on the wig for a larger size\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nOn the same monster theme, Irish writer/illustrator \u003Cb>Niamh Sharkey\u003C/b> just blogged her \u003Ca href=\"http://www.librarymice.com/2011/04/fabulous-five-niamh-sharkey-presents.html\">five favourite monster picture books \u003C/a> over on the Library Mice book blog. She included \u003Ci>Morris the Mankiest Monster\u003C/i>... thanks, Niamh!\\r\n\\r\nOkay, now we're moving away from London and Monsterville to an entirely different city, Oxford. BUT THERE WERE STILL MONSTERS! When \u003Cb>Philip Reeve\u003C/b> and I visited \u003Cb>Oxford's yet-unopened Story Museum\u003C/b>, we spotted this great light fixture above the door. (How cool is that?!)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/story_museum_2-ab8dc1ec10.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd then some monsters nipped our finger tips. So fab. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/story_museum_3-5d449056ca.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIt's still very much a building site, but there's a lonely dinosaur in a room that used to be a canteen, when the building was a telephone exchange. Philip has blogged much more about the museum itself, \u003Ca href=\"http://philipreeve.blogspot.com/2011/04/story-museum.html\">pop over to his blog to have a read about it. \u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/story_museum_7-c965ae05ad.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's the Story Museum director, \u003Cb>Kim Pickin\u003C/b>, showing us one of the garrets that they're hoping to use as a space for writers and artists in residence. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/story_museum_4-bb80428142.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIt's like something out of \u003Ci>The Little Princess\u003C/i>, and any rat found living there really ought to be named Melchizedek. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/story_museum_10-66f862b6e6.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/story_museum_5-7b11321e5f.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/story_museum_11-5c3d2fe6d9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nIt's a HUGE space, all these buildings around a central courtyard. And so lovely in a higgelty-piggelty sort of way. I can't wait to see how they'll use all the buildings' strange quirks to build a world dedicated to storytelling. Have a look at the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.storymuseum.org.uk\">Story Museum's website\u003C/a> to find out more.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/story_museum_9-f3c333d353.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nKim showed us some old photos from the building's rather fascinating past.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/story_museum_1-9235c1dcf4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nView from one of the windows:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/story_museum_8-96abb33063.jpg\">","2011-04-06T12:27:00.000Z","wigging-out",[],"wigging out",1776628719978]