If you are a Star Wars fan, you will love this. If you are a Lego fan, you will love this. If you are a timelapse fan, you will (also) love this...
However, if you are a Lego making, Star Wars watching, Timelapse enthusiast then prepare for just over two minutes of heaven.
This very cool video shows the step by step construction of the Lego R2D2 model. It’s the kind of kit that only the patient will build (though others with delusions of endurance might buy it and then quickly give up!). Personally I wouldn't have the perseverance to build the model, let alone make a stop-motion of me doing it!
It was created by creative developer Gwen Vanhee with post-production by Alexander Casteels. So, if you do not have the time or the patience to do something like this then sit back and enjoy.
After all, there is nothing quite so entertaining as watching others work, even if you can’t see them most of the time!
There are times when even the words labor of love do not give justice to something. So it is with Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut. Put simply it is Star Wars Episode IV in hundreds of fifteen second segments, each created by a fan or group of fans. They could re-film their claimed segment in any way that they wished – and so was unleashed a veritable death star of creativity. The various clips were available to watch on the Star Wars Uncut website.
Now, the director, Casey Pugh, has hand-picked his favorites and put them together in the first feature length movie of its kind – a complete reproduction of an original film for fans and by fans. I simply cannot imagine the amount of hours that must have been put in to this project and fortunately Casey had help at hand in the shape of video editor Aaron Valdez and sound designer and mixed Bryan Pugh. The result is something of an internet phenomenon – and just goes to show what might not be created in the future should certain laws come to pass.
Order a pizza, gather round you everything you will need for two hours of empirical wallowing and enjoy this in all its hand-made glory!
Cross-stitch: one of the oldest forms of embroidery known to humanity has something of an image problem. Many people associate it with little old ladies sitting by the fire, brows furrowed and determinedly executing a multitude of X-shaped stitches in a tiled, raster-like pattern. The result? The alphabet perhaps, or maybe even Home Sweet Home. Hold on, though. Cross-stitch has come a long way since those days. The platitudes are gone: cross-stitch has come home and nerds live there.
Many thanks to Flickr User Krupp for making these images available under a creative commons license. If you would like to try your hand out with them you can find a lot of Krupp’s patterns here.
One of the villagers in the tiny village of Saint Peter's near Richmond in Nova Scotia is a Star Wars fan. At least that is the only assumption that you can make when you set your eyes on the fire hydrants there. One has been given a distinctively Yoda like makeover.
The other looks just like another small friend of ours. R2D2 had a million and one functions but we never thought we would see him as function as a fire hydrant. What the other villagers of Saint Peter's think of their fire hydrants has not been recorded.
R2-D2 took on a whole new life yesterday at Carleton College in the USA. In possibly the best ever astronomy related college pranks of all time (not that there can be that many, surely) the Goodsell Observatory on the College Campus was transformed in to a massive albeit temporary piece of installation art. Ingredients required - an observatory, lots of sheets, huges amounts of taping and draping and - hey presto!
The enterprising students were able to R2-ise the observatory in a short time, thanks to s pre-prepared array of appropriately colored pieces of cloth which were then taped and draped over the building. All in all much quicker than a spray can and less likely to result in any legal action. An environmentally friendly prank, too, then!
The massive R2-D2 came complete with sound effects. Can you imagine the size of the Princess Leia hologram had it appeared? She would have been clearly visible from Minneapolis pleading with Obi Wan Kenobi to send assistance! The observatory is the largest in the state and was built in 1905 and named after Charles Goodsell who donated much of the land on which the college is built.
Carleton College in the state of Minnesota was founded in 1866 and has quite a history of student pranks. The two thousand or so students at the college seem to have a special affinity to pranking and previous escapades have included a reproduction of the face of Bill Clinton on the day of his commencement speech in 2000. Oh yes, that was on the college water tower.
There seems to be a history of streaking at the college, too - but fortunately R2-D2 seems to have been put in place by fully clothed students. Also, a bust of Friedrich Schiller has been making guest appearances on Campus for more than half a century. This Star Wars prank, however, must be the best (certainly the largest) that the college has ever seen.
The prank was accompanied by a plaintive note from the students for R2-D2 to be left alone for twenty four hours. Take a look at the PS - it will cut the hardest heart to ribbons. It can only be hoped that this request was granted as this is just way too cool to be taken down immediately.
