Themendous

As you may already know, Themendous creates all the Google Sweet OS statues and lawn sculptures!  Giovanni is know as the 'Droid Dude' and we are ecstatic to hear what we will be building this year! For the Android N, Google has turned to YOU for help in naming the next sweet to debut this Friday June 3rd! Cast your vote here:   https://www.android.com/versions/name-n/ While you are picking your brain to think of the best SWEET that begins with 'N', have a look at the our previous years of work for Google Android: View our full portfolio at www.themendous.com  

A MONSTER MASH at MONSTERPALOOZA!!              Be sure to stop by Our Booth!!! If you're into monsters, syfy and the art behind this great genre, then  Monsterpalooza  is the place for you to be!  And since we certainly are, it's the place and show, for us as well. But what do we exhibit amongst such great talent like  Steve Wang ,  Rick Lazzarini , and  Stan Winston School of Character Arts ?   Well, in wanting to showcase our abilities and contribution to this nail biting and hair raising event, Themendous has teamed up with the great Emmy Award-nominated director, producer and illustrator:  David Hartman  to produce an oversized, fully sculpted replica of Hartman's "Monster Mash" from his amazing collection of illustrations at  Sideshow Monkey .   The final will be a whopping ten feet tall by seven feet wide, dripping with monster madness and some secret special effects!  The original...

A MONSTER MASH!   If you're into monsters, syfy and the art behind this great genre, then Monsterpalooza is the place for you to be!  And since we certainly are, it's the place and show, for us as well.  But what do we exhibit amongst such great talent like Steve Wang , Rick Lazzarini , and Stan Winston School of Character Arts ?   Well, in wanting to showcase our abilities and contribution to this nail biting and hair raising event, Themendous has teamed up with the great Emmy Award-nominated director, producer and illustrator: David Hartman to produce an oversized, fully sculpted replica of Hartman's "Monster Mash" from his amazing collection of illustrations at Sideshow Monkey .   The final will be a whopping ten feet tall by seven feet wide, dripping with monster madness and some secret special effects!  The original scene is a mash up of some of our favorite horror figures, including a towering classic Frankenstein, a creepy little Dracula, an...

Just completed this HUGE donut for Entenmann's Donuts... Just in time for #nationaldonutday ! This will be featured tomorrow:  June 6th which is National Donut Day... If you are in the NYC area specifically Washington Square Park,  come on down tomorrow Friday June 6th from 7:00am to 3:00pm and have a blast with Entenmann's,  Salvation Army, and ourselves: Themendous !!! Hope to see you there!

As most of you know, this past IAAPA '13 show was the first time in 15 years as members that we did not exhibit in the show, as pending projects and overlapping deadlines did not allow us to set aside any time to build a booth this year (we change our booth design every year.  Check them out here ).  As all of you know, the IAAPA show is very important to us and so while we could not exhibit, we decided to walk the show, not only as a buyer for a current project, but view it through an attendees eyes.  Something that I have always tried to do while exhibiting, but never had the chance as working our booth requires all hands on deck.  My experience as an attendee/buyer was amazing!  But I still had the blood of an exhibitor flowing through my veins.  So walking down the isles I was so shocked to see a number of things that exhibitors were both doing and not doing, that I thought I would share those findings with our community.  I invite you to rea...

Blast From the Past Sunday:  our hero prop chocolate sculptures for this TV commercial :) Lots of Chocolaty fun went into these cool sculptures including:  Melting chocolate coffee table, Cupcake and dog, melting chocolate walls

So it turns out that the Google HQ was seiged by some crazy rain storms this past Friday 13th and, well... our Giant 10ft Long Google Eclair went afloat! As most of you already know, our studio has created all of the Google Lawn Sculptures and so, we always find it cool to see all the activity of the sculptures there on the lawn.    "The Google Sculpture Lawn" in front of   Building 44   (as it is officially known) has turned into a tourist attraction stop because of the sculptures.  On any given day one will see several bus's filled with people, stop, get out and take photos in front of the Themendous* sculpts, get back in the bus and leave!  -WHAT?!?  WAIT !!! Where's everyone going???-   Many famous celebrities and role model personalities visiting Google have also posed in front of our Google Sculpts such as Lady Gaga, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Willam Defoe, Busta Rhymes,  retired General Colin Powell, and of course; the Andr...

We haven't posted in a while (again), and have been very busy (as usual :) but I thought I would take a moment to post one of our latest and greatest projects: a 10 foot tall Lady Gaga. Our "little monster" will soon be ready for hard coat and paint, which is when she will really come to life! Until then: keep your "PAWS UP" !!!

Wow! Just found this on YouTube! (gotta love Youtube) A project Blast form the past! We designed and made the flowers in this commercial about 13 yrs ago. Fake flowers needed to have a root system that dropped dirt as it was pulled from the pot. It was a cool challenge and if memory serves me correctly they got a steal at about $300! Since then we have made several projects for TVm theater and cinema, so if you need anything along those lines, don't be shy, give us a call!

Wow,  I can't believe it!  I still can't get over it. A GIRL!  I mean, I was fine with either a boy or girl, since quite honestly we already have a boy, but now that she's here, I can't even explain how I feel.  Excited for sure.  I think my biggest problem now is that I am torn between two names: Giovanna or Isabella.  I like both, so I guess we need to sleep on it until tomorrow. The other concern/problem is that I have to learn how to wash her after she does her "business".  I mean my son was easy there was nothing there for his "business" to get up into.  Man am I in for some surprises huh?  Well...looks like we have another product tester on our hands for our family fun center props and theming and black light minigolf.  We'll have to get her started right away!  

I know I promised that the next time I would post was to have an updated and complete rundown of our most recent works, but what can I say... there are more important things afoot! THE BIRTH OF OUR GREATEST CREATION #2 Yep, that's right!  Today (02/02/11) we will not be introducing our latest black light miniature golf installation or tremendous over sized 3D foam sculpture, but rather:  the birth of our 2nd child! Everyone is nervous and excited!   Our area has been getting hit with snow storm upon snow storm and even now, as I type, it is sleeting and the car is covered with ice-ice baby!  So off to a careful drive to our area hospital. Our first son Dante (now 5) is on pins and needles.  He is adamant about having a girl, but we won't know until the very moment!  Stay tuned... we will certainly post our latest creative shop endeavors, but first:  Our BABY !!!

So much to do!  So much to say!!!!!  We have fallen behind on our blog posts.  What can I do?  We're bizzzy!   Since the last post, our ship has obviously been completed and has set sail for.....FINLAND! Yep.  Finland  the really funny thing about it:  the ship is... on a ship! A container ship that is and scheduled to arrive in February for install at a family fun center there.  info to be posted as soon as I get it, or- as soon as I get to posting it!  :)     But I promise,  the next post will have a run down of what has happened since October all the way up to what we are currently working on:  "The Island of Dr. Moreglow"  Possibly our best black light miniature golf construction yet!  Stay tuned  :)

It's no secret that we are always working.  And that brings on many responsibilities... Like this dirty little secret!

Well, here we all are, January 5th 2010.  As the world eagerly awaits the news that Google will release something big, HUGE, in fact, we all wonder if the rumors are true.  Will it be the Nexus One that the internet world is buzzed about?  There were secret photos and youtube videos and they were quickly removed off the face of youtube and then there were and are videos and photos that seem to be there to stay.  There are articles and more articles .  Rumors and rumors.  Is it happening yes or no? One of the things we do here at the Custom Creations theming shop, is build oversized props. Last year Google Corp. had contacted us and asked us to build an oversized Android robot for the launch of Android.  we jumped to the occasion and finished that bad boy in 4 days!  Then came Cupcake at 8' tall, then came Donut at 8' diameter and then Eclair at 10' long.  Google has been good to us. Why?  Well, to toot our own horn, we do exce...

Technology blogs are awash with rumours about Google's forthcoming Nexus One handset. HOLY COW!!!  January 5th is the day that is announced!  Talk about starting off the year with a bang! Here at Custom Creations, we couldn't be any happier.  Truth be told, the biggest reason is that we are a big supporter of Google, especially since they are a big supporter of Custom Creations. Those who are familiar with our work and this blog, know that we had been hired by Google to build the varied over sized props that adorn the Google HQ in Mountain View CA.  those props include the 13' tall Android, the 8' tall cupcake, 8' diameter Donut and 10' long Eclair.  But what is next for us here at Custom Creations?    Well, for now, All I will say is you will have to stay tuned by Subscribing to our blog as well as following us on www.twitter.com/kraziegolf   or www.twitter.com/customcreation   ALSO,  if you wish to see video of our recent Go...

So COOL ! Google is introducing the Street View Trike ! At the 0:06 mark, the trike passes by Google HQ, where our Oversized Android Robot, Google Cupcake and Google Donut is sitting. Unfortunately, the video was taken before our Google Eclair was delivered, but hey, we are glad to see our product out there! I need to see the trike view of Google HQ now, just to see the props up close!

Eclair Originally uploaded by customcreationstheming Here's Gio contemplating what could be the next giant pastry Google Corp. will ask Custom Creations to make! A 10 foot tall flan? A dainty 5 foot creme brulee or even and old fashioned sundae? The possibilities are endless! The 10' Long Eclair has made it's way to the Google campus, joining the Android, Cupcake and Donut. We don't know what will come next from Google Corp. (or do we???) but we do know it will be HUGE!