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Frankenfridge

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Frankenfridge – frontside

Originally uploaded by mark5four0

Weekend Project! Frankenfridge is alive.
I Spent Saturday painting this, I tried to get it done in one day so I wouldn’t run out of motivation. It took 3 cans of charcoal grey, 2 cans of army green and a half can of black for the lines.

We moved it to the deck on sunday and bobby cleaned it out the rest of the way. My pointer finger and thumb are still numb from holding down the spray nozzle. I could never be a graffitti artist! Also at one point I almost took a sip from a can of black paint ( I forgot which hand I was holding my drink in, I remembered when I spilled black paint on my face.)

But I think the project was a great success!

Later!
Mark

The Table goes online.

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Overhead shot 1

Overhead shot 1

I hadn’t posted any pictures of the table online since we’d been building it. I’d always planned on a) finishing the table and b) making some kind of cool website for it. I did throw together a small wordpress blog and gallery for it, but that was way too much work for little reward. So I decided to throw it out on flickr. I might try and upload some of the pictures to bpong.com and other dedicated table pages tonight. I’ll have to find the right descriptions and captions for the pictures. but most likely I’ll just watch Prison Break and eat dinner.

Later!

UPDATE – www.thetable.swalrus.org

Project Skully Completed.

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So over the weekend I finished the “Skull Door Knocker” that I’d been working on for a while. I guess I’m going to pass it off as a halloween project… then just keep it up for the rest of the year. I threw together a picture of it for my Laptop Background in between deploying the application at work today. I cant stop looking at it actually, it’s got this HDR quality about it. I really did very little to the picture, just adusted the curves a little. I had to photoshop together some pieces of the door though. I think it came out really well.

Later!

Projects progressing niceley

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On recovery monday we did some nice work on a few projects that we have around the house. I made major progress on the skull door knocker, finally attaching the knocker piece. Without which it wouldn’t be much of a knocker. It looks sturdy enough to be actually used, but this is the B version of the design. I had to go back to the drawing board after I kept breaking off the knocker. So really all that’s left not is to glue on the skull and paint the thing. I’ll get started on that tonight, since there’s nothing good on TV.

Jesse continued work on the beerpong table 2.0 installing 60 out of 90 blue LEDs ( he would have more but he forgot to order them!)

But the ones that were there looked sweet!

A minor incident happened when he was showing me how bright they were. They started flickering on and off in weird patterns, I heard him say “wow, I wonder why that’s happening?” and then we saw smoke coming from the board. turns out it was just a short circuit and the driver chips are OK. But one LED was reduced to a smoking crater.

check this link for progress pics

Later!

case modding… is it worth it?

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I’ve been interested in the modding scene for a few years now. It relates to my background in art and interest in computers. But today I have a different question. Is it worth it to begin a mod knowing that someone else has already done the same thing? In Pc modding there is always that next level, that eye-popping design or really creative one. But in Xbox modding there seems to be many more limitations, everyone seems to do variations on the same theme. Having said that, I really like most of them. Check out xbox transformed for some examples. I know that when I was first interest in modding I would get grief from “Miss Perfection” Crystal Schlotter about a painted case never looking as good as a “bought” one. But quality is one of my goals in designing a mod. I guess I look to the hot rod scene for inspiration, they have been doing those ’32 Ford street rods forever, they must be running low on ideas and yet they still make new ones. I guess the drive to make another one comes from the process rather than the end result. Maybe I’m thinking too much about this, maybe I’m scared to mess up my box and my ego as a modder. I am also worried about durability, I know how fragile my PC mods came out (half of that is cause I never really finished them) and the Xbox needs to be able to be transported. But if i do this i will be going all out, and I will be spending a lot of time in the planning stages. If I come up with anything I’ll post some designs here.