00403 The doors. THE DOORS!

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man you've got to love doors.

No, really, you have to love them or the police will come and take you away and drown you in your own doorlessness.

Then you'll be sorry.

I keep all my business secret behind the green one. I also keep all my secret business there, too.

00402 Cakes The Show

Following it's huge on screen success (oh, wait, that should read in-mouth success), we've decided to open on Broadway and the West End simultaneously.



I should be retiring any time soon.

00401 The doors

I can't seem to get an adequate image of them, but believe me when I say that I have finally put tiny doors inside boxes.

That's right, tiny doors.

Inside boxes.

What's that you say? "They said it couldn't be done".

No.

They never said that.

What they said was, "You really shouldn't do that".

But I did it anyway.

Next on my list is to stop the voices.

After that it's back to the bots in the boxes.

In other news, I can feel a resurgence of "Robots that draw in the sand". Just you wait 'till I get my hands on two similarly sized drill motors and a motorbike battery.

Actually, probably best not to wait.

Summer's coming and that means beach, which means, rakes and pooh sticks. Probably some KAP too

In the other news that isn't that, I'll mostly be continuing with making a slideshow of small cakes, some of which will have letters, faces, random and fractal patterns, or all of the above.

As you do.

00400 Casting pieces

Room temperature vulcanising silicone.

It just sits there looking lovely.

Then, just when you don't thing it can get any better, in goes the Fastcast polyurethane resin with marble powder and pigment:

And you think you really have got it as good as it gets.

Of course, you're right, because your OCD has reached a psychotic level and the authorities have decide that it's probably best to shelter you under their wing, pumped so full of downers that you think you're the bed.

Hey, but I still cast backgammon pieces, so I guess i rock.

00399 Trapped

The first one with the coins on the top and the hidden wiring. It's the coolest thing, if you're into electronic components bent into the shape of armless and headless cripples stuck to wooden columns inside a reclaimed woos display case. With painted toothpicks.

I'm so into that. Spank me.

00398 Boxy, boxy, boxy

And of course, boxy.

Four more on the go, two with the cable channeled through the walls and two just standard (but nice) for the little doors I started putting in them.

Didn't I mention the doors thing. Yeah, I got hit by a bus and lost my mind and now I'm putting little doors in boxes.

That's all true (apart from the bit about the bus).

Oh, hey, mustn't forget the random shot of the plane and the wood shaving.

That's better.

Meanwhile the Sparebots are breeding.

Obviously they're not actually breeding. I don't want to be labeled as some DIY wire-based pron freak (don't Google that phrase).

00397 Down low

I've always prided myself on consistently refusing to follow the crowd.

Until they do something I like.

Actually it happens quite often (I got really into the breathing thing for a long while).

So down low I go. Sometimes it's good sometimes no-go. Either way it's a great use of a digital camera for passing the micro seconds:

And in the words of Forrest Gump, "That's all I have to say about that"

00396 Dude, what's in the box?

I've got alot of sparebots just sitting in margarine tubs and they're just dying to get into these (greenhouse) glass fronted boxes. But as per usual, with new creations comes new creative stimulus, so more keep appearing. Here's who's going in the boxes so far:

If I can just find the right size ball bearing for Steve McQueen, I'll be away.

00395 Boxes, boxes, boxes

Been busy making boxes for 'bots:

The darlington pair touch-switch is working exceedingly well. There's now a couple of coins on the top of this box which switches on two LEDs inside when touched. Now all I have to worry about is the jail sentence when they find out I've soldered the Queen's head.

The wires are routed through a conduit drilled out of the walls of the box - it's so awesome, I can hardly believe how deeply I've embraced my inner geek.

Strange thing is that, because they're designed to be viewed in a box, they're not so good as images.

Man I could get lost in these (if I could just perfect that shrinking ray)

00394 Renaissance

They're coming. Only allot slower than I thought they would:

Boxes, glass and electronic components:

Soon to be joined in a miraculous trinity.

The last one here is particularly awesome, being as it is, a touch switch to turn on an LED (or anything else). So I'll be using that one to light the boxes internally. As to what will go inside, only time will tell.

00393 Boxing days

Boxes are here and there are going to be many more to come.

I'll be thinking outside them to begin with, but only because they're smaller than my head:

I dare anyone to call this a waste of time.

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Applicants must not be or in any way resemble a human being or possess the ability to process thought or be able to manifest themselves in any way that may even nearly constitute consciousness or an approximation thereof. Your house may be at risk if you build it on sand (see Bible for details)

00392 Sparebots!

In real live paper and everything!

Sparebots

By Lenny

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00391 Posing bear

Cara got this teddy from her teacher - they all get a chance to look after it.

And my, didn't we all have fun?

No.

Just me:

"I don't care who's teddy it is, when it's on my set, it's my rules"

00390 Shelved ideas

I had these ideas, but I haven't actually shelved them yet.

However, I have inherited a spectacularly large wood pile from teh recent disembowelment of Jonah's Scout hut (that's not a euphemism).

Anyhoo, they certainly won't end up looking like this:

Problem is, Sketchup just doesn't live in the real world and the way they stay on the wall won't just be because they just ARE there.

Having said that, it's filters rock something aweful (that's like "aweful" from the olde dayes)