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Lacy, Gently Wafting Valentines

mario — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:11:31 +0000

My yearly tradition returns for another year! Like all yearly traditions ought to. Whenever I can muster up the strength to do so, I make Valentine’s Day cards for my mother and siblings to enjoy. Last year I made a batch in the style of Back to the Future. This year I decided to go with something relatively more contemporary: enjoy my Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog valentines!

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I deemed this to not be the best choice to give to family members, so consider this an Internet exclusive.

Internet Exclusive Number Two.

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If you haven’t seen Dr. Horrible yet… seriously, what’s wrong with you? Please go buy the DVD (or Blu-ray), buy the soundtrack, watch Commentary! The Musical, buy the Commentary! soundtrack… then come back here and print out the valentines and enjoy please.

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Great Scott! It’s Valentine’s Day!

mario — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:25:56 +0000

It’s been a couple of years since I last made themed Valentine’s Day cards in the style of those store-bought franchise tie-in cards they make for kids, so I figured I was long overdue. Enjoy my Back to the Future valentines!

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Animal Crossing Galactica

mario — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:02:47 +0000

Special thanks to LesbianGeek (no, I’m not a member) for this totally awesome mashup of Animal Crossing and Battlestar Galactica!

Little Six and Baltar look so cute trying (and failing!) to create a Cylon test!

Animal Crossing Roslin for President!

A fine recreation, but I still hate her. Perhaps the horrible rage seething inside of me is a testament to the skills of the crafters!

Go lookit the rest already!

(courtesy of 4 color rebellion)

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Meteos character made out of twisty-ties

mario — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:27:51 +0000

I’m not one to brag, but I consider myself to be something of an amazingly skilled artist (please note subtle sarcastic undertones). One day while bored at work (fixing computers doesn’t really tax the artistic muscles much), I noticed I had a large amount of twisty-ties at my disposal. Remembering that the characters in the excellent DS puzzle game Meteos were generally stick-figureish in design, I realized I could probably recreate one of them!

So I did! Press on to see the pic and revel in its artistic awesomeness!

Isn’t Gamercraft wonderful? Yes it is.

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Gamercraft: Embroidered Plush Nintendo System

mario — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:19:05 +0000

Jeff (from The Orange Belt forums) pointed out this nifty little piece of gamercraft via Craftster: a sewn Nintendo Entertainment System! The attention to detail is commendable, though I’d really like to know how big the system is. It’s hard to tell with felted crafts sometimes, especially when there’s nothing in the photos to use as a frame of reference. Of course, this doesn’t diminish the project’s awesomeness in the slightest. Make sure you check out the rest of the photos in the Craftster thread, it really is a wonderful piece.

(I’m not gonna dupe-post every piece of artwork posted on Gamercraft, but this was too cool for school.)

(courtesy of Gamercraft)

Custom Mii Sculptures

mario — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:29:06 +0000

A clever Wii enthusiast had an equally clever idea: he had custom sculptures made of his and his girlfriend’s Miis as a Valentine’s Day present. They came out beautifully:

On top of that, the sculptor is offering his services to anyone else with the desire to have a sculpture of their Mii (like me) and $50 (unlike me). Act fast, he’s only making 100 Mii sculptures in this fashion. Go now!

(courtesy of 4 color rebellion)

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