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For my brother's birthday I decided to make him a number of characters from the ngmoco/hand circus game Rolando 2 - Quest for the golden orchid. The original characters were designed by Mikko Walamies and can be seen here at the rolando 2 website

From left to right; the Floating Friend, Lord Derby Disraeli (royal treasurer), the King rolando, Major James Cardigan (royal spiky commando), Turgut Reiss (reformed pirate) and Mr Scruff, the DJ who made the music for the game. I posed them with a 30 cm ruler and a standard wine bottle to give you an idea of the scale. The small rolandos were patterned off a superball. The King was patterned off a lemon, and the Floating Friend from an orange. They are made out of polar fleece and/or corduroy, hand coloured and embroidered.

My brother took some (much nicer) photos which I have included just below:

The floating friend has two forms, the one I made was the huge floating sphere the friend becomes when he eats chilli.

 I hope you enjoy my interpretations of these rolandos.

It's at 8:29 in the Portishead short film To Kill A Dead Man 

I'd recommend you watch the film even if you are not a fan of Portishead; as it has a chilling score and incredible noir atmosphere. Well worth a look.

  And 8:29? Well I decided to embroider it. Which was a terrible idea. As a general rule, embroidery is done of small motifs and designs, rather than PICTURES, this is because it takes forever. It is possibly the slowest art form ever, even slower than assembling someone's face out of the circles cut from a hole puncher. To embroider as much as I did took TWO DAYS (it's about life sized if you want to know) so I decided to call it finished.

Why embroidery? Well I love its richness and its dimensionality..I'm not actually very good at it though. Oh well, c'est la vie, I can't just draw/paint things all the time.

Hopefully this is interesting enough. I went sewing and made this vest/waistcoat out of corduroy. I made the petticoats a while ago. Just an excuse to dress up really.

It's got Scottish Highland buttons!

If you want to know who takes my photographs, it's my friend Emma

The probability dress is an unfitted garment made from two old sheets, with no buttons or zips. The design is drawn on in laundry marker.

This dress is covered in probability trees related to the number of times a dice is rolled. For each roll of the dice (depicted are the outcomes of rolling the dice 3 times) there is a 1 in 216 chance that you will recieve a 3, for instance.

I would have kept going with all the lines but I would have had to draw over 1000 more..so I didn't

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This "waistcoat" or vest was made out of an old pair of jeans. It is entirely reversible, with buttons on both sides. Not shown is the denim side, with one white button and one blue one. The lining fabric was plain pink but I stencilled on a design by hand.

This skirt was made from the top of a too-tight pair of jeans. I widened the sides with floral fabric and added 3 layers of fabric to the bottom.

This shirt was a plain yellow one that I stencilled with a design of finches that I drew in Flash.