Hey there. I’m Jackson. I live in Cleveland, work freelance and spend entirely too much time watching movies. I also work on movies too, sometimes, when I’m lucky - typically as an art assistant and/or set dresser. I was there when they blew up the train in Noah Baumbach’s White Noise (you remember White Noise…right?); I puttered around the Warner Bros. lot for nine months for season two of Winning Time (which is a TV show, but work with me here) and even got to help set up a casino-smashing car chase for Eenie Meanie (it’s on Hulu; it’s pretty good!). My last full-time gig was some set dressing work on an action flick starring a couple of former A-listers, who shall remain nameless for legal reasons. That one got shut down a week into pre-production. Was the collapse due to certain higher-ups in the chain not having the finances they said they did? Who is to say. Such is life in this silly, occasionally wonderful, perpetually baffling industry.

Anyway, this isn’t a site about movies. This is a site about clay and the things you can make with it. For me, those things tend to be monsters. And pets, too. But let’s focus on the monsters because they’re the reason we’re here at all. I would say that I’ve loved monsters as long as I can remember, except that would be a lie because I can vividly recall the night my Dad sat me down to watch Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (the Raymond Burr one) for the first time. I was nine and my affection for lumbering beasts was already well-established. Bears, rhinos, elephants…the larger the beast, the better. I’d also been fully inundated with the analogue craft of monster movies, on account of becoming obsessed with Jaws at an even earlier age and watching both it and the accompanying making-of featurette on the 25th anniversary DVD approximately 80,000 times. So I suppose, on that fateful night, as I witnessed Japan’s largest movie star clobber Tokyo for the first time, those two preoccupations linked arms Red Rover-style and burrowed together into the deepest recesses of my brain. They have dwelled there ever since.