#BehindTheGish

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Setting up my "shattering plates into a million pieces" station. These plates were second hand and in pretty rough condition. Most of them I painted to get the colors I wanted. Smashing was hard work, done in a old rag towel (to contain the shards) with a sledgehammer. I organized all the shards by color in preparation for the next step: mosaic.

The mosaic is starting to take shape! It was extremely persnickety work.

Once I started wprking on the background, things really started to pop.

Complete! I just about keeled over in excitement.

The final mosaic! It made me so sad that you couldn't clearly see it once it was installed into the car (apparently, taking a photo of something huge, in a car with roof constraints, is...difficult!?). But here it is! --Danalynn

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Somewhere around 1am the first night of the hunt, I had the idea to add a small token representing each member of the team to our team flag-- which meant I then spent over an hour running around my house finding a selection of small trinkets I would be able to sew on to the flag. I ended up with 56 different options, and had every team member pick the ones they felt best represented them. Hidden among all the buttons on the final flag, you'll find all 15 of the tokens the team chose- plus a pride flag and a bonus sloth to represent our mascot Bernard! -Kaela

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Curse you, Eiffel Tower item! Lots of stress all week waiting for it to happen, but Nargiza came through! She was a rockstar proxy- this is just a small sampling of all the options she sent us!

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How not to board a boat, a series. -Jez

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We had a hard time deciding which photo to use for our biker ballet- neither of these was the one we submitted, but we just had to share them here!

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We wear fine things well AND we got to go on a cool boat! -Satu

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Robots are ready for their first acting job! Here you can also see the set up for the animation. -Shaked

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A large group of Gishers met up on Friday night of the hunt to paint The Fence- and we were fortunate enough to have three friends of the team show up to help! Erin, Chad, and Emma worked with the other teams to paint the fence itself, and then Emma did a spectacular job painting our team name and logo! 

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The dangers of filming Gish items on location- sometimes you have to improvise pockets and can't get your keys back out. - Kaela

Video captions: "So this dress doesn't have pockets. And I needed somewhere to put my keys, so... I put them down my front, like you do. Obviously. Like, that's what you do. Um... But now they're, like, here? In my corset... fortunately, my car is proximity, but uh, I can't get them out until I get home, so that's fun."

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There was definitely a lot of motion involved in capturing the 'Woman in Motion' long exposure picture!

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Our giant fortune cookie didn't just have one fortune, it had two! This one wasn't submitted, but we just had to share it here!

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Not sure just how giant that giant fortune cookie was? Well, have we got the image for you!

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I had never used UV resin before - that stuff is magical. -Evie

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I had intended for the lacey dress to show (it was a torn and stained originally-white dress I thrifted, and then I dyed it this tan color), but decided it was too distracting and not apple core-y enough, so it ended up getting covered completely!

I was shooting under and next to apple trees, but unfortunately it was still too early for apples-- I love that you can see the shoes in this shot! - Danalynn

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Pay no attention to the cat behind the curtain...

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My bug had a little caterpillar "helping" 😄 -Satu

Elli was like: OOO A CAVE? FOR ME? -Tiia