Sometime last year, a co-worker and I kidnapped a fellow employee's treasured Burger King Yoda wind-up figure from her cubicle and held him for ransom. Thus began what became known as...The Cubicle Wars!
The reasons for the abduction are a little fuzzy now but it was all good natured and we had a blast creating and sending photos of the Master in various harrowing predicaments. A special "Force Inhibitor Visor" was created to explain the mighty jedi's inability to easily escape his captors. We posted the photos and demands on a blog and sent updates to the victims owner. I was also able to devise and photograph ever more insidious tortures upon the Jedi (without fear of actually harming him) after successfully tracking down a "clone" of the green one at a local flea market. After freezing him in clear carbonite, burying him up to his neck in the desert, he was finally melted into a lump of gears and plastic with a blowtorch and unceremoniously dumped on the owners desk.
In the end, the Jedi escaped and returned to his Cubicle after cleverly switching places with his clone. For the moment all is in balance with the Force...for now...
"There is now no need for the FIV (Force Inhibator Visor) as the Jedi has weakened to the point of rendering it all but useless. He will now be able to see the harbingers of his doom! Hahahahahahah….."
(Shot outside in the sun (to get the highlights off the ice) against a black plastic background while standing on dog cage panel. Darth Sidious, as his captor was revealed to be, is actually an old Edward Scissorshands figure.
(A strange metallic paperweight with telescoping clips (for notes or photos?) I had lying around is placed on top of the frozen Jedicicle adding a bit of inexpensive tech to the composition. A little photoshopping in the reflection completes the image.)
(Hanging the figure over a spillway in town during a lunch break.)
engine, engine, number nine
going down the railroad line
if the train should jump the track
you might just get your jedi back
(Shot on the way into the office one morning. Added the train's light in "post production".)
(These photos were shot using a flashlight in a completely darkened room.)
