With various shades of flesh, dark browns & black to accent some of the features and confuse the eye with the rest.įinal step was to immerse the thing in some sort of liquid to match the story. The overall paint job was purposely blotchy I used gray yak hair for, well, hair that I secured with latex. For general surface alterations I used SculptaMold, two part epoxy clay and Liquitex molding paste. The teeth in one mouth are actually flat tooth picks and the mouth with three teeth are actually shark teeth and do bear some resemblance The eye was a ball of two part epoxy into which I mounted an albino iris I found eBay. Unlike the original arm less version, I added a pair of stubby clawed arms and other stuff to confuse any I went into my stash of scrap plastic and failed 3D prints which proved to be more helpful than I had anticipated. I printed out several screen shots I had from the original TV program as a reference points for the thing's appearance though I soon departed and chose my own
Probably about as close you'd want to get with The Jar! As it turned out, I ended up distorting the head so severely, a simple ball of foam would have been adequate and less expensive. Jar's contents (sans liquid) started out has a life size Styrofoam manikin head I that I purchased at Hobby Lobby. Third size version but I found a two gallon specimen jar that suited my needs perfectly on eBay (where else?). The hardest part was to find a jar suitable to set up to duplicate the scene full scale. That always stayed with me and a chance reviewing of the episode inspired me to try my hand at reconstructing “The Jar”. There was a very creepy element about the story Here's a link to theĪnyway, I first saw this story on the Alfred Hitchcock Hour when I was a mere lad of 14.
I won't spoil the ending for you but you can see two TV versions of the story on YouTube (the Alfred Hitchcock version is the best) or you can read the story to see how it turns out. Some memories of their past which still haunt them. When he returns home, he and the jar become the center of attention in the small community, a status,Ĭuriously, everyone that looks into the jar sees something different and/or it stirs So taken in is he with the jar and its contents, he persuades one of the carnival workers to sell to him. Thing (very Lovecraftian that) floating in a jar.
“ The Jar” is a macabre short story by Ray Bradbury which concerns a country bumpkin at carnival sideshow who sees an indescribable
That's Billy Barty posing with the jar in the 1964 episode. Screenshot of the Alfred Hitchcock version of the story.
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