Credits:
All illustrations, text, dioramas,
and modelmaking by Roger Dowd.
Diorama photography by Stephen E. Munz.
The following list describes the techniques and materials used to create the Hurt Expedition "artifacts".
Scene 1: Sound track: recorded and manipulated in SoundEdit16. Figure is an action figure dressed in a velvet-like cloth outfit with fake fur trim.
Scene 2: Manly Deeds Library cover: Illustration: pen and ink drawing. Logo: Created in Adobe Illustrator, with QuarkXpress. Printed coventionally and distressed to look aged.
Scene 3: Photos taken in Suffern and Goshen, NY. Hurt's epitat was typeset and composited in Adobe Photoshop.
Scene 4: Diorama was constructed in a variety of materials. The ship was modified from a wooden model kit of the American Civil War steam/sailing battleship, The U.S.S Kearsarge. Foreground figures are G.I. Joe dolls dressed in a velvet-like cloth. Sleds, barrels, boxes, etc...were made from balsa wood. The sled in foreground is based on Arctic explorer ??? Eleswoood, on display in the New York Museum of Natural History.
The scene was constructed in forced perspective on a platform of gessoed canvas covered with styrofoam and salt. The sky was spraypainted photoraphers noseam.
Scene 5: Same as Scene 1.
Scene 6: Diorama was constructed in a variety of materials, but mostly balsa wood. The Idol is entirely out of steamed and shaped balsa, but the wall and crocodile figure were made of pine blocks. The figure is a G.I Joe doll in a velvet-like cloth. Background icebergs were made out of Sculpy and styrofoam.
Scene 7:Wall was constructed of pine blocks and wooden match sticks.
Scene 8: Translation of the wall was created in Adobe Illustrator.
This entire website has been created using the following applications: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Pagemill, in combination with SoundEdit16, BeyondPress, and B.B.Edit.