Last Update: Saturday, 14 May 2011
Our backyard gazebo: a work in progress. Updates here in a more recent post as they happen (and I remember to take pictures). Most recent picture to the right. More after the jump:
I Shoot an Arrow at It
Apr 22
Mystery Machine
Apr 14
Banana Dragon
Apr 14
Look at this dragon carved from a banana.
Just look at it.
From Japanese artist Y Yamaden,via Laughing Squid by way of Fark.
SWFF: One Year Later
Mar 15
Sherwood Forest Faire (see previous post) is in the middle of its second season, and I’ve been back five of the eight days they’ve been open so far. (They are open weekends through April 03, plus Friday, March 18.) While not without blemish, my experience has been a whole lot of fun, and in many ways an improvement over their great inaugural season. Read on for specifics:
1413 2nd Street, Santa Fe
Mar 11
Spotted from the street in the vicinity of 1413 2nd Street, Santa Fe NM was this wonderful metal dragon. (Photo is copyright 2011 MDH and appears here with his permission.) Unfortunately, I don’t have any further information about the dragon itself or who created it.
Little Big Planet 2 is a video game for the Sony Playstation 3 console. One of its most interesting features is a robust set of tools for users to build and share new levels. This article contains a detailed discussion of the tag and sensor components available within the LBP2 level creator. It will be of interest chiefly to readers who have some experience creating LBP2 levels, and who have at the very least completed the in-game level creation tutorials.
What Is This I Don’t Even
Jan 19
I got a great gift recently, and I’m really not sure what it is.
Here’s what I do know: There are three of them. They’re sized per the picture, and weigh between 126g and 132g each. I like them, and will use them to Make Things.
Sunday, January 16th, 2011 is the eighth annual Appreciate a Dragon Day.
I assure you, dear reader, that I share your complete disdain for silly made-up holidays synthesized by a committee and fabricated from some unholy admixture of boredom and profit motive. In this particular case, however, 1) Dragons, 2) the holiday was invented by an actual person, to promote a book (and not to enrich a greeting card company), plus 3) Dragons.
Dawn Treader
Dec 20
Some brief musings on the latest vaguely Narnia-themed theatrical treacle:
If you happen to like any linear combination of dragons and/or Art Nouveau, you should probably go see it. Treat it as a slide-show of visual wonders, occasionally interrupted by boring people talking.
I regard it as pretty absurd to talk about “spoilers” in the context of a work (ostensibly) based on a book that’s over fifty years old, and I don’t think I commit any. Nevertheless, here’s a cut:
