Posts tagged with "pictures"
Thursday, 8. November 2007, 17:25:00
travis, custom, mod, katana
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It looks like no one else wanted to be Travis Touchdown for Halloween. Despite me saying for nearly a year that that's who I was going to go as, work became so time cosuming that I only had time to even begin working on my costume on November 5th. Why did I even bother? Two reasons: I really wanted to go as Travis Touchdown, and there was still 2 days to enter pictures in the N+ Halloween Costume CoN+est.+
Click here to Digg this sweetness and support tinkering/honest fun.
+ I was just informed this is the Opera Community top news story,
here.
- Thanks, Espen+ Naoko from Grasshopper Manufacture sent me
a message.
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Nintendo Wii Fanboy likes it, too.
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GoNintendo likes it.
+ Well, now when you
search Google for Beam Katana or
Travis Touchdown, there's a bunch of first page results about this.
+ Kotaku
really likes it.
Wait, who is Travis Touchdown?
The main character (characters page) in No More Heroes, a game coming out for Wii in Japan in December and the US in February. Travis, an otaku, buys a Beam Katana in an online auction and ends up battling assassins in the town in which he resides, Santa Destroy, CA. (gallery)
I decided to make the Blood Berry Beam Katana because it's far more complicated and looks a lot less like a traditional light saber. I used a Star Wars Force FX Light Saber as the base, among other supplies. The best part is that the prop retains all of it's original durability. That means that just like a normal Force FX light saber, you can swing and smash this thing into anything and the sounds and durablity aren't sacrificed.
It still rests on the Force FX base as well, but I think I'm going to make a special wall mount. And if I can figure out how to get it to not turn off after a minute of not being used, I'm going to turn it into a powered lamp by taking out the battery/speaker unit that is politely designed as a single piece and just wiring it up and adding a plug. This way it won't make noise as a lamp and I can always put the battery pack back in for portable fun/death dealing.
The handle-looking things I later realized aren't handles at all, but I had already made them super sturdy, enough that you can swing this thing around by them if you wish. And yes, there are two, it takes a lot of screen shot analysis to say that with conficence. 
There's a bright red master switch located within prime thumbing area, and that glows pretty bright thanks to an LED from my box of LEDs I ripped out of stuff.
In the video game, Travis needs to re-charge his Beam Katana every now and then by shaking it. So for fun I decided to include a Battery Meter. (larger pictures here) It really is a nice touch, and when you shake the Beam Katana, the needle moves.
There's already a million things I want to do differently, like not to forget putting on the orange piping before I took all these pictures. And I'm not satisfied with the tip, I had no way of making it gold under the time constraints. But for only 2 days worth of off-and-on work, and very little planning, I think it came out pretty sweet.
The total cost was around $150-160, with $120 of that being the original light saber purchased specifically for this task. No, I didn't just use one I had. If that makes you angry, I'm sorry. I spent 2 hours in Home Depot, 1 hour in a craft store, a quick stop at a Radio Shack, and went to 7 stores looking for Travis glasses, and I ended up using glasses I had. Had the jacket, too. Made the shirt from two shirts I got at a thrift store and a lot of sharpie markers and sewing. I think I spent the least ammount of time on my hair, ironically/considerably less than I spend on it before I go out. I haven't sat around and worked on something in a loooong time. This was totally worth the cost and effort.
Capt Seagull (1:46:35 AM): what would be so fitting (but dont do) is to sell it on ebay! hahaha
Battle Happen (1:51:00 AM): haha i know
Battle Happen (1:51:05 AM): i should add that to my post
Check out my Blood Berry Beam Katana gallery and let me know your thoughts.Digg this.
MyOpera Story.
Wednesday, 7. November 2007, 20:10:35
Nintendo, pictures, mystery
Friday, 20. July 2007, 14:54:44
stick, ericsson, documents, tag
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I really like statistics. More and more, we're able to see usage trends, counts, and more as people start categorizing empirical data rather than just throwing it out.
A few weeks back I decided to see what I could gather about my phone use (I actually started writing this post then), because I'm looking to uprgade again, probably to one of these:I thought, hey, this says a lot about me, and might be interesting to others (in the spirit of not throwing out collected data). So I decided to start a new blog tag trend related to mobile stats. Some phones (like Sony Ericsson's) make it really easy to get your statistics if you know where to look. 
Model:
Sony Ericsson w810i Date activated: Dec 18 2006, I think
Days in use: about 210
Messages and Data
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SMS Sent: 4121 *
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MMS Sent: 51*
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Data Sent: 16801992B (about 17MB)
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Data Received: 74697293B (about 75MB)
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Time Transferring data: 28:49:37
Calls
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Last Call: 00:01:06
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Total Call Time: 96:53:02
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Outgoing Calls: 40:33:09
Memory
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Phone: 15MB free
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Memory Stick: 45MB free
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Pictures: 141MB 719 files
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Videos: 56MB 151 files
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Sounds: 203MB 111 files
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Themes: 3.6MB 14 files
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Web Pages: 1kb 5 files*
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Games: 1.6MB 4 files
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Applications: 5.9MB 19 files*
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Documents: 195kb 13 files
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Messages: 179kb 63 files
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Downloads: -*
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MSN Messenger: - *
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AIM: -*
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Yahoo Messenger: - *
Contacts
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Contacts: 162 (1000)
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Numbers: 211
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SmartChip: 222(250)
*that's about 20 text messages sent a day.. every day, wow that actually surprises me.
*this has to be wrong, since I upload pics and video frequently, perhaps this is the count that I get charged for when not using a data connection (which I understand is the primary means for my picture and video uploads on Cingular/AT&T).
*I don't really use this option much, but I probably should to communitcate with my European friends easier.
*I use the applications on my phone more than any other feature, primarilly Google Maps and Opera Mini Dimension. And so, since I said this was a tag-style entry, I'm interested to see what
Espen,
Leila,
Jon,
Anton,
Dustin,
Ian,
Joe, and
Chris do with thier phones.
Wednesday, 11. April 2007, 00:43:44
n+, evwiiwhere, Wii, pictures
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Holy Crap i found a naturally occurring Wii.. in a West Virginia Scion Car Show poster!
Wednesday, 21. March 2007, 22:51:56
office, .ed, nerd, work
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As, requested by Espen, I've posted an album of 20 pictures of my office.
The coolest part is that when labeling all of the pictures I realized the album is similar to a room in Hotel Dusk, there are even mysterious things. Also, there's some kicky sweet images of my ultimate dry erase board, Metroid inspired furniture layout, and pixel perfect floor plan.
Secret Power:
.ed receives Nerd +1 when left alone:domo:Checks it outs.
Tuesday, 20. March 2007, 13:29:41
strangers, girls, parties, mustache
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Uh... well, I do like a fake mustache from time to time. It is the funniest thing divided by cost on earth, besides flatulents (well, we all pay for flatulents, but still).
So as I continue my foray deep within the depths of my hard drive to clean the beast, I realized I'd already found enough fake mustache pictures to give them their own album, no really, there's a ton.
So since I have yet add captions or tags, if you have any questions with any of these new albums, just ask. A lot of them are questionable.Please to enjoying!
Monday, 19. March 2007, 16:45:28
otakon, anime, vash, mustache
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Since I'm doing some structured storage on my home PC, I've been finding a great deal of pictures of me when I was in a costume for one reason or another. From Halloween, to Western and Super Hero parties, I've grouped all of the pictures I've found so far of me in costumes into this album.
The costumes include:
- Cocheese from Sabotage
- MCA from Intergalactic (during a lip-sync competition that my team dominated)
- Half-assed Punisher (5 minute costume for a Super Hero party)
- in-store Batman (in a store)
- "Ed getting attacked by giant ants"
- a thug from KITE
- Ted Ramekin (for an episode of a friend's internet sitcom)
- Vash the Stampede (black variant figure, for Otakon)
- Tommy Lee
- A Giant Robot Pilot
- a Golfer
- etc.
As I find more, I will add them, but there are also some pretty entertaining other categories I still need to make.
Friday, 16. March 2007, 16:01:52
albums, .ed, pictures, me
I was doing some housekeeping on my computer and started to organize some photos. SInce I rarely get photos of myself, I decided to share what I found in my pictures of myself album. There are now 78. Like this jewel of a photo to the left.
...stunning I will add info and descriptions to them in my down time.
Friday, 22. December 2006, 01:35:12
.ed, opera mini, santa, dogs
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Ha! This picture was on the bulletin board of a local pet store... people paid a few bucks for a polaroid of their pet w/
Santa. I had to share this one.
(50%)
WIDGETIZE