{"id":1610,"date":"2013-04-08T05:57:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2013-11-20T12:22:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T19:22:46","slug":"what-do-nikola-tesla-meth-addicts-and-grumpy-republicans-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wallypots.com\/?p=1610","title":{"rendered":"What do Nikola Tesla, meth addicts and grumpy Republicans all have in common?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week’s firing yielded a trio of mugs that were made for the sheer fun if it.\u00a0 I have no idea if these pots will sell, but I really like them.\u00a0 A few weeks ago I was drawing in my sketchbook and I started coming up with some really funny images that needed a “hook” to turn them into full-fledged designs.\u00a0 The aha moment came when I decided to make them a series of pro wrestling style match ups.\u00a0 The first one to evolve is the one most most grounded in reality: “spacey kindergarten teacher vs. grumpy republican”.\u00a0 It is important to note that the grumpy republican character was inspired by a snarky anti-Democrat email cartoon sent to me by a conservative friend who lives a charmed life.\u00a0 Picture a guy who retired from the defense industry at age 55, lives in a dream house in Maui and he gets his kicks sending dumb political emails to his hard-working, humble income, never-to-retire buddy. Grrrrr!<\/em> But it guess I shouldn’t get too grumpy myself because that dumb email inspired a good cartoon.<\/p>\n

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“Meth addict vs. giant sand worm” is a lovely match up between a pair of scary monsters.\u00a0 The red lines in the black background are a new scraffito technique that I developed while creating the Bowie-Pop mug series<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ve always said that if I had never made pottery for a living and I saw something like this in a craft gallery, I would buy it in an instant.\u00a0 I think mugs like this are magical objects!<\/p>\n

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And further along in the spectrum of weird, we have “Nikola Tesla<\/a> vs. lobster girl”.\u00a0 This mug was inspired by the book, “Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla”<\/a>.\u00a0 I just finished it this week.\u00a0 What a fascinating eccentric genius!\u00a0 He developed so many of the scientific marvels of our modern age but he failed to adequately capitalize financially on them.\u00a0 I’m\u00a0 a little annoyed by the fact that the electric car company Tesla Motors<\/a> ripped off his namesake for their company title.\u00a0 But I suppose it would be somewhat ironic if this company were to go belly-up in the future, wouldn’t it?\u00a0 So if you want to help me<\/em> capitalize on the genius of these three new designs and help to ensure that my company won’t go belly-up in the future, you can purchase these items and more at my online store.<\/a><\/p>\n

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