November 01, 2012

The PSA: Odds And Ends

This is my version of a DVD's director's commentary, just some jokes and pictures that disappeared in the making of the Halloween PSA, including an Epilogue!  But first...

This is my favorite picture from the entire thing.  The desk, carpeting, books and lamp are decorations for a dollhouse.  Prof Mallard is balanced on a stack of quarters, and the whole shebang is positioned inside one of my bookcases.  The faux wood makes for good paneling, no?  Unfortunately, the best little joke in the entire PSA disappeared in the final product... his word balloon covered up the painting on the wall (which is photoshopped up there, of course).  The painting?  Renoir's The Duck Pond.  That's just one of the little references I threw into the strip.  For example, you'd think that the "D.D." in Prof D.D. Mallard's name might stand for "Donald Daffy" or something like that.  Actually, it stands for "Delos David," a hat tip to one of my favorite Heinlein characters.  It's unlikely that anybody else would get that, but if I can't amuse myself, what's the point, right?

I posted an edited version of this picture almost a year ago as a teaser to the "photojournalism project", but this shows the basic layout of the "lab" photographs.  The key to the whole thing was the LED strip I found at Menards a while back.  Looked just like the overly bright fluorescent lights you'd see in a white-tiled lab/holodeck/thingy.  The floor and walls are, again, for a dollhouse, and it's ridiculous how much that crap costs!  That's $25 of thin plastic sheeting right there... still, it looked good on camera, and that's what matters.

The Epilogue is below...
 

EPILOGUE:

I always intended to include this in the PSA, but... um... I couldn't find the picture last night.  See, I've got five different directories on four different hard drives and a SD card on two computers and a camera, all labeled "PSA", just in case of a nastyuglyick, and various sub-folders inside those.  This one just got lost until this evening, when I found it misplaced in a duck pictures folder completely unrelated to the PSA.  Call this a little tribute to Momzerduck, who often stopped into the Duck U Bookstore carrying a couple of tuna-fish sandwiches for me: "I was in the neighborhood..."

JOKE EXPLANATIONS:


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1 RE:  "... no idea where I picked it up..." - afraid I recognized this right away.  I think it must be left over from our Pern-infected childhoods:  "... sickly gray surfaces that heaved and dipped. Heat as massive as a tidal wave. Fear! Terror! An inarticulate longing! A scream, heard in her mind, a scream like a knife on raw nerves! Don't leave me alone!" (By the way - don't be tempted to reread these books as an adult.)

Posted by: Vaucanson's Duck at November 02, 2012 04:52 PM (OFJiW)

2 OMG!  You're right!  From when F'nor went to the Red Star... oh my aching arse!

Posted by: Wonderduck at November 02, 2012 07:30 PM (lS5Cn)

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