And I talk about the dodo, and how the dodo became extinct, and then I talk about Spinoza.

Even the dodos are laughing now.

In my house, Dodo. Oh, my poor littlebitty house.

So what I did was, again, like I did with the dodo skull,

See, while museums all over the world have dodo skeletons in their collection, nobody not even the actual Natural History Museum on the island of Mauritius has a skeleton that's made from the bones of a single dodo.

There's the dodo skeleton folder.

And I looked down at this Sculpey, and I thought, maybe, yeah, maybe I could make my own dodo skull.

Everyone was very excited about this archaeological find, because it meant that they might finally be able to assemble a single dodo skeleton.

And I thought to myself, wouldn't it be great if I had my own dodo skeleton?

No dice no dodo skeleton for me. But the damage had been done.

You can see that I even made a museum label for it that includes a brief history of the dodo.

This guy I love this guy! He put a dodo leg bones on a scanner with a ruler.

He put a dodo leg bones on a scanner with a ruler.

Dodo suddenly called out 'The race is over!' and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, 'But who has won?'

See, while museums all over the world have dodo skeletons in their collection, nobody not even the actual Natural History Museum on the island of Mauritius has a skeleton that's made from the bones of a single dodo.

As the last dodo was dying, Spinoza was looking for a rational explanation for everything, called eudaemonia.

And over a few hours, I eventually achieved what was actually a pretty reasonable dodo skull.

I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my Creative Projects folder it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.

And then you can start going back further, and you can start thinking about dodos, and you can think about other species.

About four years ago, the New Yorker published an article about a cache of dodo bones that was found in a pit on the island of Mauritius.

Storm trooper costumes. Maps of Middle Earth that's one I hand drew myself. There's the dodo skeleton folder.

So what I did was, again, like I did with the dodo skull, I blew all my reference up to full size, and then I began cutting out the negatives and using those templates as shape references.

Now, the island of Mauritius is a small island off the east coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, and it is the place where the dodo bird was discovered and extinguished, all within about 150 years.

And over a few hours, I eventually achieved what was actually a pretty reasonable dodo skull. And I didn't mean to continue, I it's kind of like, you know, you can only clean a super messy room by picking up one thing at a time you can't think about the totality.