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Posted by on Sep 18th, 2008 | 0 comments

Lego for Adults

Lego for Adults
Don’t worry. This post is ‘safe for work’ despite what your imagination may be telling you. Apparently there is a book called “Lego for Adults” available online to purchase which outlines how to build weapons out of Lego. One of the actual shooting guns is features on the cover to whet your appetite and the book itself even features a slide-action magazine-fed crossbow pistol. This book...
Posted by on Mar 8th, 2008 | 1 comment

Etch-a-clock

Angela over at Make has hacked together an etch-a-sketch which automatically draws the time. This opens all kinds of doors for etch-a-visualization. It even erases itself every minute! Whats more, she’s actually done a good job of fabricating the thing in to a nice clean looking package, rather than a mess of wires and hardware. Very elegant. It doesn’t take long to etch in the current time so with the...
Posted by on May 9th, 2007 | 0 comments

Have at you!

The Setting is Nathan Phillips Square. The time is three o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday, the twelfth of May. The weapons of choice are pillows. The expected outcome? Some ‘n00bs’ are about to get ‘pwned’ with some feathery headshots and the number of cameras will match or exceed the number of pillows.
Posted by on Oct 23rd, 2006 | 1 comment

The death of form (or Form follows finance)

John Kricfalusi has a pretty good write-up about the death of form and relates it specifically to children’s toys.  He compares toys from the 1960s to some contemporary examples. This direct comparison lets him draw conclusions about the nature and development of the forms and the intent to which they have been subject from conception through implementation.  He could have elaborated quite a bit more...
Posted by on Jun 26th, 2006 | 3 comments

Bubble Battle

Last night newmindspace announced their next event; Bubble Battle. Three battlefields have been chosen. Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver will be witness to bubble induced mayhem on the second day of July. Be warned. Now that Ohmpage has a fancy multimedia smartphone (review to come) we’ll bring you some documentation of the aftermath in Toronto for those who are too afraid to be there...
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