00333 Birthday flash

It's not what you get from your wife.

Well ... it is ... kind of.

Anyway now I have two:

and they both work together. Although ironically I took a few shots of this guy who came around the other day and when only one worked I liked it the best:

Green, eh?

00332 Case Jumper

We were just standing there at the bottom and everyone was really nervous. Nobody thought he'd do it.

Then somebody shouted and pointed to the top and you could see this spec getting bigger and bigger.

Check out this shot I got of him:

He's crazy.

Bet he gets laid. He's so cool.

00331 Power

I haz it:

For about 90 hours at 1000 mA.

After that I need a comfy chair and a nice cup of tea.

00330 Previews

What next?



Aaaah!

00329 The news

And finally ...





ok, ok ...

papers - check
phone off - check
make up - check
hair - ok, no hair
legs - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

00328 Rakey, rakey

Did I say I had a new rake? Poring through catalogues of rakes online was coming a little too close to browsing rake-porn, so I bought a child's rake (portable and surprisingly manly, not) and mum gave me her old gravel rake. Good old mum. Did a bit on the beach, KAPed it up etc.

I wonder how many other people are suffering from "image processing backlog blues". Just me again? Thought so. The bigger, wider versions of this are in the queue (isn't that a weirdly spelt word?).

00327 Old and new

Although I try to avoid going over old ground, the last time I KAPed the Vazon causeway it was really gust and it was with my old steam powered camera. So here we go again, old on the left ... it's pretty obvious, really:

Aaaah, yes, much better.

00326 fists and boxing

This is just bumf, but so is all the stuff I find in my belly button. Oh, no, wait, that's fluff.

Anyway, Birthdays come and go, but this year I wanted to make it a special day, so I bought some cord. I always party this hard. And what do you do with cord? You make monkey's fists, naturally.

Doesn't everyone. I'm so into knots, but I try to avoid negativity. Although so saying, with the addition of a lead weight (as in the one above), this makes a passable wife-beater. Or so I've been told (not by my wife).

The boxes come from here and here. Do them and your life will remain unchanged as a result (apart from the time you lost making them):

00325 The unusual suspects

"McManus came to us with the job, Fenster got the vans, Hockney supplied the hardware, I came through with how to do it so no one got killed, but Keaton... Keaton put on the finishing touch - he made these tiny little people out of this stuff he found in a box."

00324

Much though I avoid making my blog into a link farm, this piece about Cris Benton and his KAPing is really engaging:



In fact it's just another reason for me to re-kindle my desire to have "awesomeness" added to the dictionary as a real word (with the definition reading, "may cause Geek").
Of course, to make it a bit more worthwhile I did head out with Kev yesterday to help him sort out his kite. And as I rushed to help him keep his fingers as kite line stripped the flesh from his digits, I remember thinking, maybe I should care less, then I'd get better images than this:



Don't even talk to me about the shots he got.

Oh, you're not. Suit yourself.

00323 Grandpa

I was going to use the schematic for a "Wanted" poster, but that one's better, I reckon.

Not too sure I like the lighting setup for these. The tent I made from cardboard is getting in the way a bit. Might have to make something a little more substantial.

00322 Sparebots move into the virtual world

It all used to be so simple. Components, a hot iron, solder and too much time on my hands. But oh no, I had to start planning the shots, start looking behind the veil (I'm not too sure what the veil is, it's just one of those metaphysical things). And now here we are staring up at the skies while he falls int the abyss.

What I mean is that I sketched it up:

00321 Spontaneous causeway KAP

Went for a walk at the weekend and found a bit of wind, a setting sun a causeway, KAP gear and a sympathetic wife. She's so nice to me. Look what she let me do.

Although I don't know why she looks at me with sad eyes when I do it. Maybe she's ovecome by the awesomeness.

00320 There are too many of them!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! They're taking over!

This one above was a composit, but I spent so much time fannying around making sure that the figures didn't overlap or anything that I forgot to composr the shot and sort out the scenery.

And now I have a new piece of equipment. It's made from cutting edge materials, but only in that I cut all the edges.

It's cardboard.

With paper stuck on it.

00319 All my dreams come true

I had a dream last night that I was a wildly affluent genius who spent all of his spare time making tiny people out of electronic components. Imagine my surprise to wake up an find that the man was real and it was me!

Apart from the bit about being rich.

And the bit about being a genius (although I do have a CSE in classical studies)

They talk to me, you know, the little people. They say "get a life".

And I've just moved into this really cool new studio
(or "my lounge" as Meriel so wittily puts it):

It's chocka with expensive equipment too:

Bet you wish you were me, eh?

00318 Resistance

I'm like Banksy, except it's not me and it's smaller and the police won't come and get me (unless they find out that I'm building that other thing to take over the world).

Oh, and Banksy rules (and so will I when I've finished the machine)

It's not futile, you know, it's a measure of the degree to which an object opposes an electric current through it.

Fight the power (=VI)

00317 A delightful weekend in the city

James' Birthday, in London, 50s themed bowling alley, Christmas shopping, 6 hours in Yo Sushi and noodle bars, big screen cinema experience and a visit down memory lane:



That's what London's all about.

I used to work there for years.

It smells quite a bit.

00316 Dinner

He's hungry and he needs food:

And he's in the Make Blog as well. Those people are sooooooo nice. I love them. Really.

I may also have accidentally ordered stupid numbers of components that looked interesting and cheap while I was buying a hobby drill with my Christmas money. Whoops. Easily done.

Which reminds me, I bought some Milliput the other day and have fallen back in love with it.

00315 Steps

Steps that stick out of walls. Who'd 'ave 'em, eh?

Me

But only if I can flash 'em from underneath to give 'em a "Risin' Sun" vibe.

00314 Spare me the bots

No, you must suffer. For as long as I can be bothered to make mundane scenes made of crap I soldered together. Mwahahahahahahahahahaha!

00313 Slideshows

Suddenly realised that I can add slideshows from Flickr to the blog here:

00312 Toilet books a go-go

Ordered another book from Blurb. A 7" x 7" one for the loo with all sorts of bumf in it. The point? None of course. That's why it's bumf:



It's entitled "The Loo at Saint's View", of course.

00311 Morebots

I was just running out of ideas for the Sparebots until I saw this DC motor. Really difficult to photograph. Anyway I had this really complicated idea about what to do with it - there was this field full of IC chips and a hunter on a steed with a rifle and a bow and arrow and ... blah, blah , blah. How am I going to fit that under a sheet of A3?

Personally I go for the one with the dice, although it would have been better if it was more obvious that he had his hand on his hip. WHAT AM I SAYING?!?!?!?

Still can't stop using the Lomo actions. Mmmmmmmm Lomo actions.