They are back again! John, Jim, and James (well, not quite) whom you've already met for "Contraption" (see the first comment, please). They are still searching for the Center of the Universe. And this time the Dimension Skipper™ accidentally brought them to Sprout Forest, a particularly thick forest, truly uncharted territory. At the end of that ominous day James went missing. But what happened? To find out, John (the guy in yellow with the phone, the latest and greatest "Pear uPhone 9z Plus Pitch Black SE™") quickly summoned Detective Cagney of SFPD. Soon a suspect was found, Peter Croc, who had lurked about the scene of the crime for a while. Here is an excerpt from the record of interrogation:
Det. Cagney: I see particularly and suspiciously clean teeth here. Did you brush your teeth in order to erase all traces?
Peter C.: Get chat ching oug of my mouch, I can'g chpeak. I alwaych bruch my teech after dinner. And lunch. You chould do cho, too.
Det. Cagney: What did you have for dinner today?
Peter C.: Chrpouts. We are in Chprout Forecht. Now will you pleache...
Jim (kneeling): James? Are you in there?? Can you hear me???
Peter C.: Chtop yelling into my mouch, my chroat tichles!
Jeremy (new team member, the guy with the meter stick / arrow): Detective, I'm not quite sure whether it is possible that our suspect has, err, swallowed our colleague. Ever since James remembered to always bring his lunchbox, he, well, has put on quite considerably. Not sure if he would, ahem, go in.
Peter C.: Chere! I tolg you, I was innochent!!! I'm a gourmeg, nog a gourmang! Now geg chat ching oug of my mouch, my jaw hurtch!
Jeremy: Sir, may I...?
Det. Cagney: Peter Croc, you are still under suspicion to be involved in the disappearance of James. Further investigations will be necessary. Until further notice you are supposed to stay within Sprout Forest limits. Jeremy, you may remove the arrow now.
Jim: ?!?!!! Hey, Jeremy, wait a sec....
Three questions remain: Will they find James? Did the suspect tell the truth? And did Jim get out in time?
Thank you for your kind comments, I appreciate every single one, and your faves! Vielen Dank für Eure tollen Kommentare und Faves!
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
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That was the plan...
This is a rare glimpse into a top secret laboratory located somewhere in the Alps. The device you see is the so-called "Dimension Skipper™", a vehicle constructed for space and dimension travels. The special construction of the Dimension Skipper™ allows travels to other planets, solar systems or universes, and dimensions/parallel universes within seconds. An important part of the device is its "Home Anchor™" which "remembers" the journey's starting point in case you should get lost between the dimensions or got rerouted to another designation due to dimensional interferences or "pollution". The laboratory is located deep down in a top secret tunnel system in order to prevent said interferences.
Here you can witness the final preparations for the Dimension Skipper's™ maiden voyage, a moment of utmost concentration and precision. Coordinates were set to the centre of the universe, but, alas, one thing led to another, John (the guy in yellow) forgot to close the lab doors properly, Jim (the guy in green in the middle operating the Home Anchor™) happened to be a little jumpy at the prospect of writing history soon, and James (on the right) remembered at that rather unpropitious moment that he had forgotten to bring his lunchbox. In the end they found themselves on my living room table. "This is the centre of the universe? Man, this place looks cluttered."
Dimension Skipper™: plastic compass with mirror, a pin, my Mother's old thread counter, headphone jack adapter, Preiser traffic cone from a "channel digger" set
The whole "device" is 5 cm (= about 1.968503937 inches) long.
A Happy Macro Monday everyone!
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Destination Moon
Tintin's rocket - J, J, & J style: Do you remember John, Jim and James (please see first comment or the album)? This is a prequel to their adventures with the mighty Dimension Skipper®. John somehow got hold of the construction plans of the test rocket XFLR6, and one sunny day they took off on their first journey to space - to the moon! Or did they?
Recorded aboard the XFLR6, the atmosphere was somewhat edgy, tense...: "John, are you sure you've got the complete construction plans for the XFLR6? This thing feels kind of clumsy, as if a child had drawn the plans." "Oh, oh, good old Jim, always the charmer, aren't you? If you think that you can do better than me, just do it yourself!!!" "Please, John, calm down. You are so squeamish ever since you've quit smoking", Jim said. "It's just... this thing feels so half-baked... Maybe we should have delayed the launch." At this moment James joined the conversation: "Seems we are getting slower. Maybe we are running low on fuel, I'll just check... Yep. John, please light up some matches!" "Matches? What are you talking about?!? Do you guys ever listen to me? I've quit smoking! I didn't bring any matches!! I don't want to risk a relapse. Sheesh!!!" "Err, John???" Jim felt a certain panic rise inside himself... "You DO know that this is a match-fuelled rocket? We were talking about this just before take-off?" "Don't be pathetic, Jim", John barked. "We are almost there, and of course I've packed some floaties." "Floati...!!!! No! This isn't real. This is a nightmare, got to wake up, got to wake up, got to get out of here...!!!" ... "Jim, Jim, hey, honey, wake up!" Jim heard Lucy's (Jim's wife; editor's note) voice from afar... then he felt a pinch on his arm - and woke up, and looked into Lucy's big brown eyes. "Oh honey, how often did I tell you you shouldn't read your old Tintin books at night. They'll just give you nightmares. Will you ever grow up. John just called, he said the Dimension Skipper® is ready for launch. Oh, and he specifically asked me to remind you to bring some matches. Weird. I thought he'd just quit smoking... Oh well, there goes another New Year's resolution. No grit, he didn't even keep it up 'til February..."
Size of the scene: 7 cm / 2,7 inches, arranged upside down, then rotated the image to the left. Match attached to the back of the rocket with adhesive tape. Thin strip of black cardboard attached to the rocket with adhesive tape as well, attached to a sheet of black glitter foam sheet with a clamp; I then retouched the black cardboard strip with the Healing Brush. Had a glass of water within reach, just in case the paper rocket would catch fire, but to my astonishment the match went out by itself everytime, and the rocket is still intact ;-)
By the way, this is my 500th photo on Flickr ;-)
A Happy Macro Monday Everyone ;-)
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Mr. Croc at the dentist('s) 😉 And who likes to see the dentist...
This is Mr. Croc's second appearance on Flickr, you can find the first one in the first comment. Mr. Croc is a Schleich figurine, and unlike most Schleich figurines that are just that, figurines without any moving parts, Mr. Croc's mouth is openable. So this was an easy choice for the "Open" theme, especially when it's Shocktober as well ;) I'll leave it up to you to decide whether the rather unenviable dentist ("You had one job!") is James who went missing in Mr. Croc's first adventure. But what is sure is that he's an H0/1:87 figurine used in scale modeling scenes. I picked him up used along with other H0 model railway figures from the spare parts box of a shop that is specialized in rare second-hand scale modeling supplies – a real treasure trove.
With a width of 4,5 cm/1,7 inches the frame is a little on the bigger side. This final image is the result of another in-camera focus stacking. Light sources were one LED light from the left, and my small LED flashlight handheld from above/behind the scene. To block out any daylight I've again used a small black cardboard box and a black tile as "stage", and I've also wrapped black velvet foil around the scene so that I'd still be able to illuminate the scene from behind.
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!
Wer geht schon gerne zum Zahnarzt...
Dies ist Mr. Crocs zweiter Auftritt bei Flickr, sein erstes Abenteuer findet Ihr im ersten Kommentar. Mr. Croc ist eine Schleich-Figur, die, anders als die meisten Schleich-Figuren, die keine beweglichen Teile haben, ein Maul hat, das sich öffnen und das sich – wie ich angesichts der nicht ganz ungefährlichen Lage, in der sich der wenig beneidenswerte "Zahnarzt" hier befindet, anmerken muss – leider auch wieder schließen lässt. Perfekt also für das "Open"-Thema.
Die Entscheidung, ob es sich hier um James handelt, der in Mr. Crocs erstem Abenteuer an ganz ähnlicher Stelle "abhanden" kam, überlasse ich Euch. Unwahrscheinlich ist es nicht, aber da das Thema ja "offen" ist, können wir auf ein Happy End hoffen ;)
Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne erste Oktober-Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
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