After talking to Margaret and seeing her paper exoskeletons I was wondering about how to get materials to seem alive. A little movement, a little sound. So I started thinking about blankets. Some time ago Margaret made a little green cloth worm-like thing with a lego motor inside with a gear attached to the motor. When it turned on, it wriggled. Very subtle movement, and it appeared to be alive.

I've been trying to figure out a good way to construct animals and environments for the workshop. Environments, I can imagine how I want to do them, and I've made some that I like. That seems easy. Animals have been harder to figure out than I expected. I haven't even tried adding the crickets yet. I am still just trying to figure out a good way of making creatures that will be able to move or respond in an interesting way. So far, it has worked to think about endoskeletons and exoskeletons.