Video Credit: Joe Cremele

WANT SOME?

BE CAREFUL WITH “YES", (BUT…)

When Joe Cermele asks you anything, believe me… You want to say “yes”.

“Hey Brad, would you like to join me on the river tomorrow?”

Why YES Joe Cermele, I’d VERY much like to join you for a day’s fishing on a beautiful river, yep.”

“Hey Brad, is it true that you can roundhouse a sycamore straight to the ground?”

YES Joe… But that’s not me anymore, alright? I don’t want to hurt tree’s, I was a different man back then.”

“HEY BRAD, CAN YOU MAKE ALIEN LURES?”

Mmmmmmyoooowzers. Well shoot… Idk...

Still, It’s Joe, and you want to say yes, but…

Can you?

Have you, sculpted an alien

(Nope).

Have you sculpted anything particularly similar to what I’m inquiring about?

(Nay).

“You ACTUALLY believe, that with the aforementioned admissions made, you CAN, do this?”

Uh, Yup!

If ever you’re asked, try to be able to say yes.

Unless he’s asking if you’d like to join him for a night out “clubbing”, which as I’ve learned, is an excursion involving copious pints of beer, food which, you’ve not bought – rather merely *rented*,

and a trip to an establishment that goes by the name “Slick Phil’s”.

What goes on inside of Slick Phils?

Heinous, bizarre, completely awesome things.

Now I’m not sure how familiar you are, dear reader, as to just how grand in scale a publication like Field & Stream in fact is.

But… It’s the LARGEST PUBLICATION OF IT’S KIND in the KNOWN UNIVERSE.

So of course “NO PRESSURE” is the mantra that naturally loops the mind, right?”

When I was a small child I was allegedly dropped, (c’mon it was totally a throw) on my head.

As such, I believe that it is perhaps for this reason that my mind is perhaps less prone to take the “natural” approach in many instances – alien lures not exempt.

So what’d I do? How exactly did I bring these ideas out from behind my eyelids and into my hands?

I took conscious interest in a subject which had previously not appealed to me.

I’ve never even seen the films – a fact I made Joe aware of nearly immediately upon being asked.

But you can make damn sure that I subsequently can tell you most anything you’d like to know about a Chest Burster or a Face Hugger.

I of course began by sourcing reference material online, deciding to not rely too heavily on what I was seeing but instead study styling cues & method seemingly involved in the creation of the originals.

Next I consulted with a friend. She’s an actual artist, so her input seemed it’d be (and it was), very helpful.

Then… I grabbed the clay.

It could be fairly argued that this is exactly where the story is to end, and I’m going to submit that argument in summation…

I unwrapped a brick of polymer clay (Primo – by Sculpey), and I strapped in for lack of better expression.

Your ideas are astonishingly near actualized. I beg you to know that the ONLY thing separating you from your vision, is unfortunately… You.

I’m not interested in any manner of “My work will be better when I get _____” .

If you’re using bullshit lines like that to console fear of trying, I want you to know that fear, is never a good enough reason by itself to not try something.

Buy your clay. Actualize your visions. For help along the way ANYONE is MORE than welcome to reach out to me with questions. I will answer them.

Death to the dinosauric mentality running rampant in our silly little world of “lure”.

Hold tightly to what you cutely confuse to be “your secrets”.

Revolt isn’t much fun without at least a bit of resistance.

We know about them, you haven’t got “secrets”.

We, all of us, collectively are a large “we” now.

And it is your giant BIG boxy head, that is to be stepped on.

“It’s just fishing, Haaaaaaardy” -

Aware of that.

Still on rampage.

Still won’t relent.

It can still make positive change.

It can still subvert greasy rich people who do not fish.

A syndicate of sole proprietors are fast unnerving major industry players.

And I couldn’t be happier to be watching it happen.

Best,

BH

Oracle Lures