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Did you know that if you took all the things, that when laid end to end would stretch around the equator, and stacked them on top of each-other they would climb all the way to the moon? Really, it’s amazing just to think about it.
As you can see, I have put up the new template for my site. This one promises to approach the least user friendly design to date, with the exception of the one that looked like the map of Sacramento. I even made the cursor stop reacting to links and such, further hindering the ability of others to use this site. There is an iFrame to make direct linking more problematic, as well as causing trouble for searching and indexing.
All in all it pays little attention to the ways things ought to be done, just as I do in my real life. Still I like the look and structure quite a bit, and I like how I can sensibly add content in the form of directories to the site. If I was smart I would have the script fo all of this automatically, but as it is most of the links and folders are added manually. The new posts and archives are generated dynamically, as are the pictures in the photos folder (from flickr) and the files in the graphics folder from a folder on my site. The good thing about all of this, as user unfriendly as it s, is that it is pretty easy to understand for anybody coming across it, not that a normal blog wouldn’t be easy to understand.
What do you think?
Recently I came across a site called CubeCraft where they make all sorts of little figures that you can download, print, and fold to create a little guy of your very own. Inspired by this, I decided that I had several characters at my disposal that would be ideal for this format. Later I got together with Tojo and we created several figures, some of which may later appear in the game we are developing, and will be available sometime in the next ten or fifteen years. Anyhow, I now present to you,
(click the above image to see all the images in the photo set)
Lobot THM
The first in our collection is our ever present lead character, Lobot THM. This figure was the first one made and was a kind of test case. Hopefully there will be a version two with the computer on the head in three dimensions. (Click the names to download the file to cut out and fold your very own figures, make sure you print in landscape. Probably easiest to save the image to your computer and print from there rather than out of the browser, but you do whatever you want. I’m not the boss of you.).
Bendon Bunyard
This figure looks surprisingly like Bendon. So much so that my daughter correctly identified him when seeing the figure. Note the fine detail of the watch and pen. (Also this photograph represents the figure before a number of improvements were made.)
Freddie
Speaking of the daughter, here is a test case that I made by applying photographs to the template. In this one I also modified the body template to be in the shape of a dress. It came out pretty well.
Big E
This classic figure has all of the features you would expect to find with E, including the sunglasses and belt-buckle. A future version may have a microphone included.
Bob King
This figure is accurate down to the nicotine stains in the mustache, and the shamrocks on the sleeves. Check out the bill on the hat.
Iribarney
Last but not least comes this menacing figure wearing the traditional medallion to protect his spirit, or some equally crazy shit.
That’s it. Now get to cutting. I promise more of these in the future, and if you have any requests, send them my way.
Up next for the art department is a complete redesign of this site. It promises to be less useful, but at least more interesting than this current boring template.
See you… In the FUTURE!
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