Monsters Out On The ShantyTown
Sometimes us monstsers get out from under the bed and get to see Shanty Town!
Distinguished monsters:
Monsters like to dance:
Rock Candy on her rocket block:
Monsters ready to race:
Reflections of monsters:
The sun, it is bright. Monsters on vacation:
Pink and white:
A manly pink monster (with a manly sore throat voice!):
Spikey monster spreading her wings:
Growling monsters:
Lauren and her mosnter hat of crazy awesomeness:
Monsters having a fireside chat (minus the fire) about the state of monster politics today:
Silly monsters:
Quiet time in Fort Shanty:
Camerahead monsters:
Monster vs. Robot:
Monster Band
Some of our monstery friends formed a Monster Band for our shanty! They played a couple shows over the month. here’s a few photos from the one I caught.
Monster Exquisite Corpse
In case you don’t know about the Exquisite Corpse drawings.. one person draws the head then folds it over so the next person only sees where the lines end. The next person draws the body and the final draws the legs and feet, all without seeing the other parts. You end up with a lot of interesting body parts that you might not think of putting together, which is perfect for a monster!
Here is a small sample of the Monster Equisite Corpse drawings visiting monsters made for us:
First weekend on the lake
Us monsters have been quite busy! It was a lovely weekend, with so many monsters visiting us. We were in such a whirlwind of getting our shanty going that we hardly had time to get the things inside going! But we managed to have some supplies to bring out the “inner monster”, a Monster Sketch Artist, some monster drawings, and lots of rawring. Expect more interactive things happening under the bed in weekends to come.
Monster Sketch Artist from the Monster Special Investigations Unit
Our permit from The Department of Everything Else: to eat children in the form of a hot dog – valid until all children are gone
Monster tending the fire
Monster grabby arm!
Little monsters reading
A horrible day to be on a lake! (aka Yay our shanty is on the lake!)
Tuesday it was in the 50s. But we decided to set up on Wednesday. It gave us more time to finish, we had helpers.. everything cooperated, except the weather.
One plus side of setting up a shanty in 20+ mph winds, freezing rain/snow on a cloudy day, is that our shanty wasn’t sinking into watery cracks made from sitting on the ice over several unusually warm days. In the midst of our exciting afternoon, we managed to save two shanties from their watery graves. They were further out than us and had created a warm spot, during the previously warm days. and were sinking in. And another shanty decided to set sail and be blown by the wind into a new location, which we redirected slightly. So, yes, it may have been a horrible day to set up a 1.5 story shanty, but at least it stayed on top of the ice and our shanty is far too heavy to blow anywhere.
Heres’ a few images of the first half of our day. You’ll have to wait to see the rest. It wasn’t quite as gloomy out as these images make it out to be, but it certainly felt that intense.
Photos by Felix Strates:
monsters under the bed shanty 