I learned everything I needed to know about making wounds from Youtube (and a few other places)

I used liquid latex last night for the first time. I love it. It's a substance that looks like bad liquid foundation, but helps make amazing wounds of all sorts - and when it's drying over a layer of toilet paper on Igor's face, it looks like a horrible skin disease. I kept poking it.

When everything dried(two layers of latex sandwiching a layer of toilet paper)the effect was pretty cool, especially since the latex was "flesh" colored. At the start of the process I was a little worried even as I reassured Igor that 'no' I shouldn't put anything between the latex and his skin and that 'yes' it will peel right off when it's dry. (I think I sounded authoritative, but what did I know? I'd never worked with the stuff before.) Soon I will be a wound, bruise and decayed flesh making queen. Ah, just what I always dreamed of as a little girl.

I was excited before, but now I'm super excited for Saturday night to do the make up for the Zombie Prom.

Photos to come later (hopefully, if I remember my camera).



P.S.
Update: And people say I'm paranoid.

Want to read more about this pint-sized bug of doom? What if I told you that it was from an article called BAE lands US Army minidroid horde contract? I know, I'm a reactionary, pessimistic nay-sayer - but I won't deny that I think we should all be worried about a group of machines that are described as a "robo-bug army" that can "spy out targets and intel for human commanders to act upon."

I'm worried about the robots

I know how it makes me sound when I start going on about how in ten years time we'll all be the subjugated playthings of super robots - but I don't care.

Last week I spent most of my free time watching videos and reading articles on the smart machines that I will most likely have to fight when the war between biologicals and mechanicals begins.

Meet the foot soldier of the coming automaton plague:


Next we have the ones that we will first welcome into our homes, the ones that will infiltrate and then turn on us:

*be sure to read the "About This Video" for the full outline of all this little spy's chilling capabilities*

Finally meet the generalissimo, the commander (or as you will come to know it, you're benevolent and unfeeling dictator), ASIMO:

Here is a page outlining what those fools at Carnegie Mellon are doing.

Luckily for us, scientists have also found a way to help us grow back our limbs after they're hacked off by robotic killing machines

Now for those that are as worried as I am there is a book that, while not technically the most helpful, does have many useful tips. It's called How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion by Daniel H. Wilson.

P.S. Don't think, just because this post deals with my huge fear of a robot born apocalypse, it means that I no longer want to become a kick-ass human/robot hybrid (cyborg for the geeks).
I still can't wait to get my Luke Arm.