Sometimes the best ideas appear when you stop planning and simply start creating. This weekend the SiP crew is running a small, spontaneous workshop around our ongoing Cinderella project. No long preparation, no complex rules — just a simple creative exercise built around a single character and a short visual story. Each participant begins with a protagonist: a minifigure from […]
Another Stuck in Plastic workshop has finished and it’s time to reflect and share my experience of this weekend’s activities and fun! This was my fourth workshop and once again it did not disappoint! Creative mess … Spending time with a group of people all around the world who share the same love of toy
All looked quiet and peaceful in Muppet TownMaybe too quiet… Or wait, what is that sound …. that snoring sound … Zzzz … Fozzie Bear was unusually quiet today, having given his fellow cast a break from his constant jokes and getting on their nerves. He was fast asleep on the sofa! The big question
Every workshop we set out to create a story with the whole group. We don’t know where the story will take us. We just know we have sixteen odd creatives, a basic set of characters to work with, and sixty minutes to complete it. So when we kicked off Fungi Times (the title was set),
What started as an experiment in the Spring workshop, has turned into a tradition where we get creative from the beginning and really model our own character after their backstory and get the paint sets out. This time it was no different and all participants got a black 3D printed figurine ready to paint to
Reflecting on the two amazing Spring workshop sessions and after attending the May #SiPspringworkshop2021, it came to light that this was going to be a very different workshop for me. Interesting, because participants were required to shoot a toy that was non-LEGO along with their chosen brick colour theme. It was important to add the
Let me tell the story of when the world almost came to an end due to the lack of chocolate eggs for Easter. Once upon a time, SmashMouse was playing with a big Easter egg and broke it accidentally. The egg was shattered into multiple parts that were scattered all around the world. stuckinplasticStuck In
Yep. It is time to get the registration going for our second workshop of twenty one. The SiP Spring Workshop. This year we decided to organize four virtual toy photography workshops with 16 participants each from all over the world (update: we are fully booked) stuckinplasticStuck In Plastic. The creative collective of toy photographers.
The best part of this already amazing week was the opportunity to meet other photographers, work together and share the fun of photographing toys. Yesterday Shelly and I hosted a toy photography workshop at the Bryan Ohno Gallery in Seattle with a group of curious photographers.
What would a Stuck in Plastic event be without a little toy photography? If we can’t have a toy photography meet-up, why not a toy photography workshop?