While living in San Francisco, I was employed as a lackey at the (in)famous  Colossal film studios. It was located in a run-down industrial neighborhood backing up to a water channel by Pier 96. Thus, many rats inhabited the back walls and out-of-sight places within the establishment, regularly making appearances scampering about the studio during commercial film shoots, scaring the bejeezus out of the ad executives. Thus it became paramount that Yours Truly's primary task was to stamp them out with extreme prejudice. During one of these shoots, the stage was painted in super ultimate blue, as was done for chroma keying in the video. The vibrancy of the blue imprinted itself in my mind as I was setting traps, and I had the epiphany to juxtapose the vibrant, cool color of the blue with the grime of the rodents as an artistic statement. This idea fueled my fortitude to press on with this shaky endeavor. After snaring each one, I would place it in a large ziplock bag, wrap it tightly in a brown paper bag, and put it in the studio’s kitchen freezer for later use. There were a couple of priceless occurrences with various staff forging around for lunch and uncovering our rodent darlings. After about a dozen or so, I had them freeze-dried in slumping positions.
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Voilà!
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