Archive for the ‘Site News’ Category

Art and Craft Supplies

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Yesterday, I bought some professional modeling clay, so papier mäché is on the horizon. The local craft store was sold out of Super Sculpey, but it was also holding a 30% off sale on all clay and sculpting supplies, so I finally bought some Super Sculpey Firm, which is supposed to have a phenomenal capacity for capturing minute detail. There was only one other package left, and this is the last day of the sale, so maybe I’ll buy the last one before I go to work this afternoon. Danny Boy bought some acrylic paints so we could start painting puppet heads. We had used Liquitex acrylic paints in tubes for the Harry Potter puppets, which worked well, so we decided to use them again after my brief and unsuccessful experiment with Ceramcoat liquid acrylics (which are very inexpensive, but have poor texture for our purposes and a dull matte appearance).

In related news, I added Sculpey.com to the links page of the Cuparium.

Harry Potter Puppet Photos

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Although I do not have any photographs of the puppet shows I performed at the Harry Potter release parties of 2005 and 2007, I have photographed the puppets individually and posted them on The Puppets of Harry Potter and the Land of Oz, located on the pictures page of the Cuparium.

Puppet Links Updated

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

I have added Videos of Puppets to the links page, and I have corrected one broken link: PuppetBuzz.com (not “PuppetryBuzz.com,” as I had formerly listed it).

Minor Improvement Made to Links Page

Friday, August 24th, 2007

The links page has been modified to enable one to skip to a category rather than having to scroll down to it. I have also added two new links.

A Slight Change of Name Scarcely Worth Mentioning

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

I have changed the masthead of the Cuplog again. Formerly, it was “Cuparius.com Cuplog” — it made sense for bookmarking purposes (I guess). Now it is simply “The Cuplog” — I think it looks and sounds better. Is this worth an entry? Probably not. Oh, well. I already wrote it, so I might as well post it.

Links Updated

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

The links page has been revised and new links have been added for the first time since 25 September 2006. I added 18 links in four new categories (all of which are puppetry-related), deleted several television network links, and deleted all of the newspaper links. The puppetry categories are the last four on the page. Eventually, I’ll add navigation links at the top of the page to each category.

The old links page is still online for anyone who may be nostalgic for it.

Odd References Increased

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

I haven’t been very good about posting news of updates to the Cuparium lately, but I’ll try to do better. As may be seen on the odd reference page, everything there has been updated this month, and there are two new pages: Ships of Star Trek (added in June as a subcategory of the Spaceships of Film and Television list, because there are far too many Star Trek ships to include in a general list), and The Original Federation Starships page, which attempts to trace the history of the naming of Federation ships in Star Trek: The Original Series. (Admittedly, the last few lists on that page, “Proposed List of New Constitution Class Starships” and “List of Miranda Class Starships” are present purely as notes to be used for the development of an unofficial Star Trek-based role-playing game [the notes of which can be read in the Fudgerylog] or possible future fan fiction.)

Ships of Star Trek Survey

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

The ongoing addition of Star Trek ships to the Spaceships of Film and Television page has proved unwieldy, so I have transferred them to the newly established Ships of Star Trek page in the Cuparium. Do not, however, expect to see any vessels from Star Trek: Enterprise, for it is anathema as far as I am concerned. The spin-off series are bad enough (except for Star Trek: Voyager, which has its merits), but a prequel series? Bah!

I shall desist from ranting further on the subject… for now.

Secret Site No Longer Secret, but Still Obscure

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Fudgery.net is the name of the heretofore secret site to which I have long alluded, but never before hyperlinked due to the slowness of its construction and the narrowness of its interest. It is a site devoted to games: board games, card games, war games, parlor games, and especially role-playing games (especially one called Fudge). I started posting to the site in 2004, but only recently has it approached a viewable state. The site is my very first foray into the realm of Cascading Style Sheets, so it represents a new stage in my humble progress as a Web designer. My emphasis has been content and clarity above all else, but rest assured that there will be visual content as well in the near future.

The Fudgerylog is the Web log connected to Fudgery.net, and there I post news of all updates to the site in addition to various articles and musings.

I know the site has limited appeal to the public at large, but so does the Cuparium for that matter.

Be seeing you… :-?

Regarding the Site Problem

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

The site problem mentioned earlier has been fixed. Huzzah!