Here is a video short I worked on with my friend Jason. We entered it into the Evil League of Evil application contest. It was low budget to say the least.
If you haven’t seen Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, this may not make much sense.
The bathroom cabinet is finished. I’m really happy with how it came out. My bathroom no longer has that “Michael Corleone leave the gun, take the cannoli” feel anymore.
I was surprised with how easy it all came together. Plywood and pocket screws are so choice, if you have the means, I highly recommend picking them up.
Just about every week, someone on my block throws out one of those ugly floor lamps. You know, that lamp you owned in college.
I’ve saved some from the dump from time to time (always making sure the neighborhood dogs haven’t gotten to them first), they’re great for parts. I’ve used the cords, sockets, and switches for some of the lamps I’ve built. But I have a lot of pipes from the base lying around.
So I cut some down, capped them with some turned pieces of scrap, and now I have this canister. But until I find a treasure map or need to deliver the antidote to a deadly nerve toxin, I have nothing to put in it.
We had a Pinewood Derby at my office last night. It was fantastic. We had 15 people build cars, which is about 11 more cars than I thought we were going to get. I came in second but won Best-In-Show.
The highlight for me was racing my original Cub Scout car that my dad and I built twenty some years ago (we built it, right, like I was allowed to touch the thing) in an exhibition match. I blew its doors off. Granted the car had one broken wheel and has been collecting dust for over two decades. But a wins a win.
I admit it, I put way too much time into this thing.
Finished the magnetic ping pong ball eyes last week, since then I’ve developed an odd habit. I’ve been attaching them to metal objects to create instant faces.
Pretty much anything can look like a Muppet if you stick eyes on it.
Drawing Artistic Robot Two THousand.
My office had an art show, the theme was “Nerd” my entry was D.A.R.T.TH. Basically, a Silo cup with 3 Sharpies hot glued to it (it also has some sweet Darth Vader sound effects I ripped out of a magazine ad).
Everything that it draws looks like a gaint spirograph though.
Hey, I actually finished something!
Granted, it’s a pretty simple project, simple ply-wood frames, but finished is finished.
I still have the licence plate from my first car (I miss you The Express) and recently picked up an old New York plate at a flea market in Chelsea. I thought it would look cool to frame them together, show off my old home state and my new one. You got to love the old plates, the new ones look kind of tacky.
