Deep Stupid has a history of weird store clerk interactions, and this year was no different. The girl behind the counter at the toy store, was crying -- we don't know why and we didn't want to ask. Later on at the dollar store we decided to buy 24 cute stuffed fish and one jesus nite-lite. The clerk didn't know what to do with 24 items and ended hitting the ONE DOLLAR button 24 times. And to do that he needed some prompting from the deep stupid team. We couldn't decide to be happy or sad for him.

At the toy store we found the cool purple ball that instantly became part of the project. At the army surplus store we found the exact mesh netting we needed -- and really cool telescoping poles. We ditched the idea of the cheap PVC tripod and decided to shackle together three of these nifty poles. (These poles were apparently hard to keep track of since we had a difficult time sorting out what we needed.)

After this we picked up the needed shackles at the hardware store without major difficulties and decided to take a trip to the dollar store to see what groovy stuff they had. There our stupidity drew us to the Jesus nite-lite -- we needed one and then our project would even fit the stupid Beyond Belief theme!! Theme art!

Here is team Deep Stupid, assembling the tripod and fulfilling the prophecy that was uttered earlier in the project: "Hey, this thing is going to be all janky."

We even had time to add quality finishing touches... <& /comp/dsfooter, page=>2, of=>4 &>