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This short video is one of the last things I made in 2020. For the music, I used a song entitled "Further Discovery" by an artist named Blear Moon; the song itself is actually what sparked the idea of a little traveller travelling someplace. I made the video is a hurry, but it turned out well enough that I don't feel too embarrased to share it on the world wide web! Let me know what you think after you've watched it, okay? The Nomad from Douglas Gauthier on Vimeo .

While I'm posting pictures of the making of things, it's only fair that I post some Capsule Castaways work-in-progress pics. These are all from the first series of Capsule Castaways which I made in the summer of 2019. For this toy series, I tried to do as little shaping of the wood pieces as possible and instead attempted to "figure out" what the tiny bits already were (people, cars, houses, etc). It felt almost like doodling with wood, if that makes sense? I was only able to make these the way that I did, because I had kept all of the little cast-off bits leftover from previous wood toys. A couple of the finished pieces were too good to let go, so my wife and I each decided to kept our favorites. I kept this orange one below and she kept the purple bookworm underneath it. But the rest were up for grabs and there wasn't really a stinker in the bunch (but I might not be entirely objective in this matter). Looking back through these pictures, I'm getting a creat...