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Make Your Own Watchmen Rorschach Mask Effect

chris — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:52:40 +0000

This is a pretty cool DIY filmmaking video from Indy Mogul showing you how you too can make your own Watchmen Rorschach mask effect for just under $20.

Erik from Indy Mogul recreates the inkblot effect from Rorschach’s mask in ‘The Watchmen’ movie and for those who are too lazy for their own inkblot animation there’s a free animation for the effect that you can download from IndyMogul.com and use in your projects. That’s what I call quality service.

Patience you’ll need young Jedi when building Star Wars papercraft

chris — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:10:38 +0000

OK. I wouldn’t make a good Jedi. That whole patience thing just doesn’t fly with me. So I can understand that Anakin guy – from a certain point of view.

A Jedi needs patience.
Patience.
But for what?

As it turns out it’s not for fighting the Sith or solving interplanetary conflicts but for building awesome Star Wars papercraft. And I’m not talking about your 5-minute-quick-folding stuff. We’re talking Jedi Master level here.

I lack any sort of skill and motivation for this kind of task. Any task, really.

To elaborate, here is a drawing of an AT-AT from me. It took me about 4 hours to get all the fine details done. You can clearly see how much effort I put into this.

He is as clumsy as he is stupid:

And this is how the papercraft looks like that I will never be able to build.

Impressive, most impressive:

As you can see, there is a slight difference in skill here.
So if any of you feel like spending the rest of your lives folding paper, be my guest. And send me one, please!

via Tomopop and Spanky Stokes
Download the ~~Deathstar plans~~ papercraft blueprints here.

Things that needed to be done: The Portal Gun has been built

chris — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:33:52 +0000

Although this is just a copy it gives me hope. Hope, that one day someone out there will actually build a real Portal Gun. And give it to me. Me alone. Step 1 in my plan to take over the world. Step 2: Deathstar (Isn’t it great how I manage to sneak in a star wars reference into almost every post?).

Details are as follows (let’s get technical, shall we?):

It lights up both blue and orange along the tube, in the barrel, and in the “indicator light” on top. The light switch is a two-way toggle in the back by the handle. It’s 22″ long including the prongs and weighs about 15 lbs.

for more pictures fire up this convenient link to the flickr page.
via Kotaku

Space Battleship Yamato built from LEGO

chris — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:38:43 +0000

Lego stuff is cool. That’s what I keep telling myself so I can keep on buying Star Wars Lego and replay Episode 3 the way it should have been (with Jar Jar ending in a Lego lava pit). For a little moment I even considered buying that Lego Deathstar. But to be honest, there’s too many pieces in that set and I run out of patience so quickly that I would just end up looking at the packaging instead of building the damn thing.

The guy who built this cool Lego Space Battleship Yamato though… not only does he have angelic patience and skills. I’m sure he also has a mental problem. Why else would you spent around 40 hours playing with tiny little bricks? Was there nothing on TV?

Obviously I am just plain jealous of his skills. The guy with the awesome skills is, of course, an artist from Hong Kong and goes by the name of Vincent Cheung. He has a gallery up over at Brickshelf with many more awesome Lego pictures, so go and check it out.

I want that ship, not excuses:

via Tomopop, The Awesomer, Klocki

Something to do at the weekend: DIY catapult

chris — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:53:15 +0000

I am not good at DIY. In fact, I suck at it. Hammer and nails and me just don’t get along. Also, I am left-handed. At least I always use that as an excuse if something need to be done around the ~~house~~ micro-flat I live in.

However, I hear that you can actually do some cool stuff with DIY, even if you’re just half-able. Like building a doghouse. Or a tree house. Or maybe even a giant sized catapult the Romans would be proud of. If that’s what tickles your fancy.

As soon as someone figures out how to built a DIY Deathstar I’ll get my tools.

via Geeks are sexy