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	<description>Polymer Clay Critters and Other Sculptures</description>
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		<title>Sugru</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday I went to the second UK Maker Faire in Newcastle. This is an event that gets together a whole lot of people in one building who have something creative and technological to show off, share or workshop. That&#8217;s a pretty broad remit; there was probably a slim majority of fun robotics projects, plus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/sugru</link>
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		<title>Anatomy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I stumbled on a science/art workshop led by Lizzie Burns at The Bowery a few weeks ago, part of the Edinburgh Interdisciplinary Discussion thing, which I&#8217;m quite excited about now that I&#8217;ve heard of it.
Lizzie makes jewellery and paintings inspired by various fields of science, and also runs workshops in museums and things &#8211; they&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/anatomy</link>
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		<title>Write me a Script!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to animate my beasties for years now, but despite being full of character designs I&#8217;ve never really had an animation idea good enough to inspire me to action. I may be a writer of sorts, but I don&#8217;t really do fiction.
That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m soliciting scripts. Specifically I&#8217;m looking for scripts which don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/write-me-a-script</link>
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		<title>How I Make Creatures That Aren&#8217;t Cats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a cat person; I always lived with cats when I was a kid, and their moods and body languages are deep-seated in my psyche. If I just sit down to doodle with a lump of clay, a cat tends to be what comes out. That&#8217;s no excuse though! This world is full of interesting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/how-i-make-creatures-that-arent-cats</link>
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		<title>USB Sculptures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been having great fun lately customising USB sticks1 using epoxy putty. The putty doesn&#8217;t require any baking, and it seems to be hard enough and strong enough to survive in pockets full of keys for long periods without any visible scratching &#8211; although it does accumulate smudge marks very quickly, they&#8217;re easy to wipe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/usb-sculptures</link>
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		<title>Old Ceramic Sculptures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

I moved to Edinburgh a few years ago, and when I did I left a couple of boxes&#8217; worth of clay sculptures in London. A couple of months ago I finally got managed to bring most of them up to Scotland with me. I guess I&#8217;ll try to sell most of them; some could probably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/old-ceramic-sculptures</link>
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		<title>Pixar exhibition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We caught the Pixar exhibition on its last day at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, and I&#8217;m glad we didn&#8217;t miss it. I found it fun and fascinating, if a little short on technical detail. It features several original polymer clay maquettes and many more cast polyurethane models, some marked with grids for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/pixar-exhibition</link>
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		<title>Epoxy Putty: First experiments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired initially by this excellent figure of an Ood (out of Doctor Who) and its co-creators answers to my questions about it, and spurred on by this thread in Flickr&#8217;s Miniature Sculpting forum, I recently purchased some epoxy putty for modelling.
I first got enthused reading about Magic Sculp, but eventually established that even the cheapest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/epoxy-putty-first-experiments</link>
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		<title>How I Make Cats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I start: Bear in mind that everyone is different; nobody ever taught me how to use polymer clay; and what works for me won&#8217;t necessarily work for you&#8230; or even for me on a different day. Experimentation is key, and if I ever had to stop messing around when I&#8217;m making my critters, I&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/how-i-make-cats</link>
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		<title>Different Kinds of Polymer Clay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many types of polymer clay available, if you know where to look, and they all have advantages and disadvantages. Many people will argue passionately for one variety or another, but I have noticed that some of the major brands are surprisingly inconsistent between colours, and possibly between batches &#8211; so sometimes I see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oolong.co.uk/zoo/different-kinds-of-polymer-clay</link>
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