To compliment my Combat Garden Gnomes in the standing and kneeling positions, I’m offering up a batch of prone gnome riflemen. As you can see from the pictures, these guys are every bit as detailed as the others, but with the grim, concentrated expression of a cold-blooded killer about to pull off a head shot from 500 yards.
My gnomes stand just under a foot tall. Lying on the ground, this guy’s hat is about five and a half inches high. He weighs somewhere between one and ten pounds, and each one comes armed with the venerable AK-47 assault rifle. Your gnome will be delicately packed in the finest imported bubble wrap, laid in a luxurious bed of gourmet packing peanuts* or vintage newsprint, and shipped directly to your door by a professional, uniformed carrier through USPS Priority Mail. For your ease of mind, you will receive a tracking number once your gnome has shipped so that you can check on his progress as he makes his speedy way from my workshop to you.
The original was hand sculpted by me, an unemployed sailor/artist/philosopher/craftsman. Once I’d created a working mold, the original was destroyed and then lovingly reproduced in solid, American-made, urethane casting resin with various things added in to make them heavier.
To paint these, I locked my 85-year-old Croatian grandmother in the basement and refused to feed her until they were finished. Quality work like this is expensive though, so If you’d like to save yourself a bit of money, you can buy one of my unpainted castings (listed separately) and paint them yourself.
Because of their handmade nature, there will be slight variations in your particular gnome. I will also be selling other Combat Garden Gnomes in different poses as well. Next up: gnome throwing a hand grenade.
*Do not eat the packing peanuts.
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The Target: Make Something that Makes Your Customers Say “This is the Coolest Shit Ever”
Love it. Said by Kevin Rose - here’s an excerpt from TechCrunch:
“Will Digg have cultural relevance?” Arrington asked at the end of the talk, remarking that as a community we need some closure on Rose’s first company. “It’s tough,” Rose responded, saying that Digg’s traffic was at 20 million uniques last month, to which Arrington added optimistically that the company brings in $10-$15 million in yearly revenue. “Can they pull off something that gets 20 million people to say, ‘This is the coolest shit ever?’,” Rose asked rhetorically.
(Source: TechCrunch)
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