MarninSaylor

Thomas was asked to design a pin for Bizarre Beasts Show, featuring the teeny tiny Brahminy Blind Snake 🐍 and you can now purchase it through Bizarre Beasts Show!

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Thomas Marnin is one half of MarninSaylor, a Seattle based toy brand known for their characters, the Pastry Pets. Thomas is a lifelong lover of the natural world. Thomas is actually writing this right now. He has never used third-person narrative to talk about himself, and is considering embellishing his accomplishments. Thomas is best known for winning the Nebula Award for science fiction as well as a Nobel Prize for actual science in the same year. When he’s not on his biodegradable, earth-friendly mega yacht, he’s rehabilitating flightless birds to take once again to the skies.

Here’s what he said about the Brahminy Blind Snake pin design:

“This was somewhat of a challenging pin design. The snake itself basically looks like a worm. I wanted to convey its size, as that is the most immediately interesting aspect of the snake. Thankfully, the snake is so small that I could actually represent it at lifesize. To reinforce the true scale of the snake I had it wrapped around a coin the size of a quarter. I enjoyed learning about these little wonders. I guess we’ll have to balance it out and make a lifesize pin of the world’s largest snake.

The (short-lived) era of the MarninSaylor onesie is coming to a close. We’ve been asked for years to make them, so we made them … and then they didn’t really sell 😹 But it’s ok! It was a fun experiment and we loved the excuse to put MiS0HAPPY's sweet illustration on another product. 💖

We’re not reprinting these so if you’ve been thinking about getting one, MEOW is the time. 🙀 Available at Pike Place Market and MarninSaylor.com!