Merry Christmas, folks.

So, I made a couple of ornaments for mine a Chloe's first Christmas tree. One is an elf and one is Santa. We'll be making more as the mood strikes us. No printouts or instructions for these two, they're all ours!

Time

Here's something a little different. I'm back in school, and one of the classes that I'm required to have is 3D Design. It's kinda like Sculpture 101. Our second project consisted of the visualizing the word "Sanctuary" Mine was time. I felt like as I got older, I become a better person. One of the requirements was that we had to have a "totem", something that represented us or an idea. My friend Maggie gave me this great robot clock, so I used him. We were further limited in our materials: One 4 foot long by 6 inch wide piece of 3/4" thick lumber, one four foot long piece of 24 gauge copper wire, one four foot long 1/2" dowel, and four 1/2" eyehooks. The clock here keeps "accurate" time as well. If you were to hook up a motor to the center dowel that maintained one revolution per hour, the big gear would have two revolutions per day.

Here it is:



I also have a couple of pictures of the project:

Owl Masks

Last week I was invited to a party where the theme was "dress up like a bird". Despite being crazy-ass sick Chloe and I actually went to this party. We didn't know we were as sick as we turned out to be (Swine Flu is awesome) but a big reason we went is because I made these owl masks.

BARN OWL! (right click->save as)


SCREECH OWL! (right click->save as)


Go ahead and click on those images to get a pdf, and you can print them out and make your own masks. Instructions are included on the image.

Here, enjoy this video of a cat I know.

Photo of the Day 10-25-08

Chloe noticed the other day that there was a pecan tree at my work, so we picked up some of them today. They were especially big, and maybe weren't ready to be picked yet, but they'll shrink down a little.

ActionDog 1.0

Dancin' machine

Click on it for a larger version.

This guy's head was inspired by the audio monitors on my desk at work.