Post a Picture - Something You Created!

WipEout wrote:
AnimeJ wrote:

Awesome looking engine, but it needs more scoop and less filter.

Thanks! I started out with a scoop, but I figured from a design standpoint the exposed carburetors and air filter would be more visually interesting since this will be running lengthwise down his spine.

For something like that, you're probably right. But to me, it's a muscle car engine, and puny air filters sitting on top of a massive supercharger just looks funky if not downright wrong.

Okay, this is not something I created, but rather something my dad has been working on for a while:

IMAGE(http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o24/dhelor/IMG_6774.jpg)

dhelor wrote:

Okay, this is not something I created, but rather something my dad has been working on for a while

Very cool, nice Scandinavian grind. Looking at the markings, is that forged?

Made this ebook cover for a novella that's going up on the Kindle store this weekend:

IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/HGJ4y.jpg)
(click to embiggen)

The picture of amethyst comes from a photographer on Flickr who has lots of neat stuff:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt

LiquidMantis wrote:
dhelor wrote:

Okay, this is not something I created, but rather something my dad has been working on for a while

Very cool, nice Scandinavian grind. Looking at the markings, is that forged?

It's actually made from the blade of a machine used by butchers. My dad made the guard and cut down the blade. It's not quite finished he says, still needs some sanding and he wants to do something about the screws on the end of the pommel.

El-Taco-the-Rogue wrote:

Okay, so I got back into DSi's flipnote program for about a week or so (where you make little flipbook-style animations). I picked up a flipnote that I'd started two years ago, but never gotten around to finishing, and set out to complete my quest.

Unfortunately, I was unaware that there was a 999-slide limit, so it's a little bit unfinished, but still a respectable length. Nothing particularly deep, but as my first foray into hand-drawn animation (Having only used Pivot Stickfigure animator beforehand) I'm quite proud of it.

Also, I can't get it onto Youtube (don't have the software), so here's a link. Any thoughts?

It isn't quite on the technical level of most of the stuff here, but I still wanted to show someone

http://flipnote.hatena.com/9A8DCFB01......

(Also in the Video thread.. Sorry.)

Humm the link doesn't seem to want to work for me..

Okay, so I got back into DSi's flipnote program for about a week or so (where you make little flipbook-style animations). I picked up a flipnote that I'd started two years ago, but never gotten around to finishing, and set out to complete my quest.

Unfortunately, I was unaware that there was a 999-slide limit, so it's a little bit unfinished, but still a respectable length. Nothing particularly deep, but as my first foray into hand-drawn animation (Having only used Pivot Stickfigure animator beforehand) I'm quite proud of it.

Also, I can't get it onto Youtube (don't have the software), so here's a link. Any thoughts?

It isn't quite on the technical level of most of the stuff here, but I still wanted to show some people ;P

http://flipnote.hatena.com/mobile/54...

(Also in the Video thread.. Sorry.)

Okay, this link should work: http://flipnote.hatena.com/9A8DCFB01...

Also it isn't a picture, but too bad.

Oh, and don't watch it on an I-device, they screw with the resolution.

Why is it "a" river city?

Also, you didn't grow up outside Chicago, did you? I knew someone with your name.

You need to hurry with the Tadly Waldorfington series-- It's too awesome, I needs mah fix!

bombsfall wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:

Why is it "a" river city?

Also, you didn't grow up outside Chicago, did you? I knew someone with your name.

Branding?

I did not grow up in Chicago, though I am there several times a year for Renegade Craft.

I guess there's a lot of competition if you want to be "the River City," but the indefinite article makes it sound like it's a series on living in one of the (30? 40?) cities on that list.

Do you work Renegade? Let me know next time you're in town. A few of the local goodjers hit Renegade fairly often, and we'd probably be up to both stopping by and maybe getting drinks.

Did you know that we like to drink here? It's true!

wordsmythe wrote:
bombsfall wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:

Why is it "a" river city?

Also, you didn't grow up outside Chicago, did you? I knew someone with your name.

Branding?

I did not grow up in Chicago, though I am there several times a year for Renegade Craft.

I guess there's a lot of competition if you want to be "the River City," but the indefinite article makes it sound like it's a series on living in one of the (30? 40?) cities on that list.

Yeah, Richmond may be on that list, but unless it's flooded, you can almost walk across the whole width of the river in multiple spots without being swept away. That's just weird to me. Still, thanks to 'the river' there's a couple pretty sweet mountain bike trails on the banks that I'm gonna try and hit this weekend with a friend from out of town. One was pretty much built for a stop in the xterra games, IIRC.

mrtomaytohead wrote:

Yeah, Richmond may be on that list, but unless it's flooded, you can almost walk across the whole width of the river in multiple spots without being swept away. That's just weird to me. Still, thanks to 'the river' there's a couple pretty sweet mountain bike trails on the banks that I'm gonna try and hit this weekend with a friend from out of town. One was pretty much built for a stop in the xterra games, IIRC.

River City Rollergirls FTW!

Love, love, love the river-walks. Miss that about Richmond...

Probably not good pictures, but I made the sheath for the dagger, and the hanger for it.

IMAGE(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a280/rainsmercy/daggerfrog1.jpg)

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a280/rainsmercy/daggerfrog2.jpg

Very cool. I'm just starting into leatherworking myself.

A friend's kids are fascinated by garden gnomes... so I made this:
IMAGE(http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/410/imageivo.jpg)

On a side related note, Gnomeo and Juliet just came out Tuesday... I saw it in the theatre with my GF and she liked it, so I have been watching for it to come out.

Nosferatu wrote:

On a side related note, Gnomeo and Juliet just came out Tuesday... I saw it in the theatre with my GF and she liked it, so I have been watching for it to come out.

Man, I saw the middle two quarters of that film, and kept thinking they'd missed opportunities for more gnome-puns.

Why not Monta-Blues vs. Capu-reds?

I got the kids into model rocketry, so yesterday I whipped up a wireless ignition system with safeties rather than the cheap wired one Estes gives you with the launch pad.

IMAGE(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a254/Liquidmantis/wirelessIgnition.jpg)

Very nice LM. I had no such accessories when I was a lad building and launching model rockets. It was dynamite fuse all the way.

I'm not much of a visual artist, but I'm pretty happy with the cover art I managed to come up with for my first album -- it's super-simple but I think it works well enough:

IMAGE(http://bandcamp.com/files/12/47/1247676215-1.jpg)

The album itself is a free download over on my Bandcamp page. It's just a collection of the tracks that I've made over the last two years, so there's a bit of variety in there, though it's mostly electronic with a touch of video-game-soundtrack to it.

LiquidMantis wrote:

I got the kids into model rocketry, so yesterday I whipped up a wireless ignition system with safeties rather than the cheap wired one Estes gives you with the launch pad.

IMAGE(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a254/Liquidmantis/wirelessIgnition.jpg)

Nice!

You said kidS.

I'm sayin' simultaneous key turn.

I started learning a new metals technique. Here's an example of photocopying textures into metal. The paper in the back is my pattern which I have applied to a smooth piece of copper in the front.

IMAGE(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/255088_1869096161258_1056697761_2849091_5237631_n.jpg)

Yellek wrote:

I started learning a new metals technique. Here's an example of photocopying textures into metal. The paper in the back is my pattern which I have applied to a smooth piece of copper in the front.

IMAGE(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/255088_1869096161258_1056697761_2849091_5237631_n.jpg)

Acid or sandblasting? Looks nice either way.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

Acid or sandblasting? Looks nice either way.

Thanks! It's neither actually. You use polymer clay to attach to the toner on the print, dip it in a fine grit, and then bake it so it's a hard 3-D template paper. Then you roll the sheet metal and the template paper through a rolling mill to imprint the design. The imprinting is quick and easy, it's the creating the template that is time consuming.

Neither, it's witchcraft!!

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Neither, it's witchcraft!!

She turned me into a newt!

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Neither, it's witchcraft!!

She's not a witch, she's your wife! But after what you just said, she's not even sure she wants to be that any more!

She never had it so good!

Anybody want a peanut?

Spoiler:

Am I doing it right?