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April/May 2013: I'm moving stuff around behind the scenes. There may be some pictures that are not showing up & some background gifs missing. Bare with me while I do some spring cleaning on this website.
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OCWeekly: Disney to No Longer Seek to Trademark "Dia de los Muertos" [UPDATE] UPDATE, 6 P.M.: After a flurry of online outrage, Disney has decided to no longer pursue a trademark on "Dia de los Muertos."

In a statement provided to the public-radio network Fronteras, a Disney spokesperson told them they had tried to trademark the name because it might've been the name for a planned Pixar film that is to be Dia de los Muertos-themed. "It has since been determined that the title of the film will change and therefore we are withdrawing our trademark filing" the spokesperson said.

Gee, I wonder why the film's title changed in the course of less than 12 hours?

 

DISNEY: DON'T TRADEMARK DAY OF THE DEAD!

Day of the Dead

The Walt Disney Company filed 33 applications on May 1st to trademark "Day of the Dead" in anticipation of a future film. That Disney intends to make money off the name of a cultural holiday celebrated by millions of people of Mexican and Central American heritage is awful enough. That they intend to file for ownership of the name and tradition is downright unacceptable and incredibly offensive.

Tell Disney that culture is NOT for sale. Sign this petition calling on Disney's CEO & chairman to immediately withdraw all applications to trademark Day of the Dead.

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05/07/2013: Rediscovered "Orphan" Web Sections
While doing Spring Cleaning on the website I have found some web sections that had not been indexed anywhere. I call them "orphans" because they were not related to any topic. As I find these lost tutorials I'll list them here.
Air Dried Clay 09-01-09: Air Dried Clay and other alternatives to polymer clay. Find different brands at ClayAlley
Faux Abalone: Tutorial Prep 3-6-2013: Luny requested a "short order tute" on Abalone. I've been wrestling abalone with polymer clay since 2000, at least. "Haven't you already mastered that?" my sister asked in amazement. "Nope, it's an ongoing thing." I admitted.

03-06-2013: PDF Real Abalone Shell pictures and 3 links to polymer clay abalone tutorials. This will give us some real abalone shells to look at to help us work on mixing colors for our clay.

1999 - What you can get from a "sink hole" at the end of a large cane.

This is one of my first large canes and I made all together too much. I made flowers with a bunch of petals, with branches and leaves and when it was reduced it pleased me a great deal. What I found was the end-o-cane made huge "dog bone" and a massive sink hole in the center. I went YIKES.

12-18-11: The odd things I find when doing spring cleaning on my website. An optical illusion with Angelina Jolie.
Memorial 2011 - We need to express our loss and grief through our art. Sometimes when there is a death in the family of a ClayMate I've needed to express myself in a ramble. This web section will be set aside for the links and photos for this sad topic.
10-13-2009: Past Swap Items in 2007 CherylD sent me a box of swap items that were made by the ClayMates during the Newbie Box Swaps. I just found that box and here are some pictures of items made over the past few years.
06-23-09: Travel Kit Idea for Elayne Elayne asked for ideas for a travel kit for claying when on the road.

 Ox-2009
For more on blends
2 Color Bullseye,
Leaf
01-21-09 Pendants,
These are now linked to "Human Study" in "Man and Beast"
These sculpted faces, the molds made of them, the "iterations" of that mold impression was made for a web section called "BH4DO". It was a claymation project that focused on Black African characters. The "BH4DO" web section needs to be rebuilt because it was a FrontPage theme that the newer browsers do not recognize. Until that section is rebuilt I'm salvaging what parts I can, piece meal. These are just some of those sections.
04-20-08 Face Molds How to sculpt many faces from one.
05-08-08 Add Face Mold How to add more mass to an existing face.
05-13-08: Making a Face Mold with polymer clay
This is now linked in "Bakery" in "Mini Food"
01-23-08 Wheat Bread Index
This is now linked in "Family"
05-11-08 Mother's Day Index

My youngest son, Said Chadly, wanted to cook Mother's Day dinner for me.
April 2013: No new items on the website because of lack of access. Repairs to the FrontPage extensions required all the photos on the root directory be placed in a folder named "images". This caused a boatload of pages that got "red x" instead of photos and the Dynamic Web Page template to be broken. So, just like in other years in the past, all my energies went into fixing my website so it'll be somewhat functional.
 

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