{"id":39529,"date":"2021-12-15T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=39529"},"modified":"2021-12-07T15:45:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T22:45:45","slug":"whats-on-my-junk-shelf-casper-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-on-my-junk-shelf-casper-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s on my junk shelf? \u2014 Casper Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casper Kelly<\/strong>\u00a0is a writer and director of TV and movies including Too Many Cooks, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell, Archer, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and the Cheddar Goblin section of \u201cMandy.\u201d He also wrote the short story collection \u201cMore Stories about Spaceships and Cancer.\u201d He\u2019s on Twitter at\u00a0@heycasperkelly.<\/a><\/p>\n

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I have a built in shelf in my home office that I haven\u2019t organized yet. In addition to part of my wife\u2019s Martha Stewart magazine collection that I have yet to move to her home office and my burgeoning blu ray collection (that I\u2019ve stopped adding to until I make my own movie) there is a bunch of things special to me including childhood things I hadn\u2019t thought about in ages until my parents recently downsized and foisted it on me. I don\u2019t really mind that the shelf is junky. I am certainly more of an Oscar than a Felix (vis a vis The Odd Couple) in the neatness department and who wouldn\u2019t want to be like Walter Matthau?<\/p>\n

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On the lower left<\/strong>\u00a0is the book of the artist Edward Kienholz who exposed me to the concept of art installations \u2014 so great! There\u2019s nothing like being INSIDE an art piece to feel moved.\u00a0Look him up here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 he would buy out apartments before they were torn down and recreate them as art installations with sad people living inside. He also did a piece with a pistol set off to fire once randomly in the next 1000 years and you could sit in a chair the gun is pointing at and contemplate your fragility!\u00a0But I digress.<\/p>\n

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Star Wars plaque and landline phone from Too Many Cooks<\/p><\/div>\n

Star Wars plaque<\/strong>. As a tiny child I had some cool neighbors from New Jersey. I think they\u00a0were the Bush\u2019s. In addition to having cool accents (to my southern\u00a0ear) and exposing us to the recipe for something called Italian Chop Suey they made me this amazing Star Wars plaque by shellacking a carefully cut out oversized comic book page onto stained wood. I love this so much, including the\u00a0old school soda pop top used as the hook<\/strong>. People were resourceful back then! It is above\u00a0the phone from Too Many Cooks<\/strong>\u00a0which although not connected to an actual landline also makes me happy.<\/p>\n

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Old school soda pop top used as the hook<\/p><\/div>\n

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“Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell” Russian nesting dolls<\/p><\/div>\n

Assorted desk figures<\/strong>. The TV network Adult Swim made Russian nesting dolls for my show \u201cYour Pretty Face is Going to Hell\u201d and I love it so much. I wish I had nesting dolls for every project I work on. Should be standard. I don\u2019t know if this is the company that did them but\u00a0here\u2019s a company that does custom nesting dolls<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Assorted desk figures<\/p><\/div>\n

Middle school silk screen.<\/strong> This was inspired by Frank Frazetta\u2019s \u201cDeath Dealer\u201d using a silk screen process in my school\u2019s art class. This was 100 percent sincere with no ironic or tongue in cheek layer. My art teacher sure hated this but I still love it. Middle school angst incarnate! I should probably frame it but I\u2019m not sure I want to think of Middle school angst that often. Also I am running out of wall space.<\/p>\n

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Middle school silk screen<\/p><\/div>\n

Art piece from my 20s.<\/strong> I started doing art after work just for fun. No agenda. I can actually draw a little better than this but I like the looseness and I left the pencil lines in on purpose. I call this \u201cMan vaguely resembling Kurt Vonnegut peruses the paper on a lazy Sunday while his neighbor watches a movie containing brief nudity.\u201d This makes me want to get back into making art.<\/p>\n

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Art piece from my 20s<\/p><\/div>\n

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