Seriously?

25Jan12

ok, need to rant for a second here. nothing major, just more of a ‘what the hell’ kinda thing.

so i spent all day sunday making a rack to hold katie’s commercial thread spools:

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nice. ok, so i’m cutting the dowel rods to make all the pegs, and they’re all individually labeled. i realize that this thing is not for display purposes and will never be seen by anyone, but the ocd in me won’t allow me to just leave the labels on. as i’m cleaning them off, i happen to read one.

its made in vietnam.

dowel rods.

from vietnam.

seriously? what, we can’t make long round pieces of wood in this country?

stop snickering.

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Your Weekly 80s Cartoon Intro…

25Jan12

the last couple installments featured show that i rarely, if ever, watched. not the case this week.

i loved inspector gadget. i watched the hell outta this every morning during the summer, which, for some reason, seemed to be the only time it was on. there were a couple live action movies a few years ago, which i can’t imagine were worth a shit. most 80s cartoons that got turned into live action movies weren’t worth a shit.

and a quick piece of uberdork trivia: frank welker, the voice of megatron and soundwave on the original transformers cartoon, was also the voice of dr. claw.

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Photoelectric 2012 Demo Reel…

20Jan12

so without any great fanfare, i give you the photoelectric 2012 demo reel:

had a great year last year. can’t believe how much work we did. here’s to a busier year in 2012!

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Your Weekly 80s Cartoon Intro…

18Jan12

got another gem from the late 80s this week:

i only watched this one sporadically, usually when i was spending the night with a buddy. didn’t have any of these toys either tho, but some friend of mine must have, because i remember playing with them.

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Ugh…

16Jan12

home sick today. woke up sunday morning with a vicious sore throat. feel like i swallowed a cheese grater. heading to the doctor in a few minutes, which i really hate doing since i’m only going to get a prescription. i have a fundamental problem with paying money to hear someone tell me what i already know. but theres no way i’m putting up with this shit any longer.

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Fotoshop…

11Jan12

this is pretty awesome…

and so true.

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Your Weekly 80s Cartoon Intro…

11Jan12

not much to say about this weeks installment. i never watched m.a.s.k., but i remember thinking the toys were pretty awesome. never had any, but a friend of mine pretty much had them all, so i did get to play with some of them.

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Street View Stereographic…

09Jan12

check this out.

from petapixel.com:

Street View Stereographic is a fun little web app that creates a “little planet” (i.e. stereographic projection) using the photos from any Google Street View location you provide it.

Planet Williams

pretty awesome. just click anywhere or enter an address in the bar under the map and there you go. doesn’t work as well on streets with really tall buildings, as you can’t see the tops, but you get some really great effects when theres lots of power lines or highway underpasses.

via coolhunting.

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I Have Discovered My New Least Favorite Thing…

07Jan12

sock ties. you know, these fucking things:

Fucking bastards

fucking hate them. yes, hate is a strong fucking word, but i think it best describes my feelings in this case. for fuck’s sake, how many do you really need to hold a fucking pair of fucking socks together? what, is it just in case the fucking cargo ship sinks, and they manage to recover the fucking container 6 fucking months later, so they’ll know they’ll still have a full fucking load of matching fucking pairs? and god forbid you have to replace an entire fucking sock drawer like i just did. took me half a fucking hour to cut them all loose.

half a fucking hour. for fucking socks.

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Your Weekly 80s Cartoon Intro…

04Jan12

with all the recent posts about he-man rip offs and poorly considered follow-ups, i decided to post the original for this week’s installment:

now some of you may know, but perhaps some of you don’t, he-man and the masters of the universe holds an interesting cultural significance. the 80s saw an explosion in kids cartoons and related toys, and theres a reason for that. these days, its impossible to imagine a sci-fi or fantasy film or kids show without a merchandising tie-in. but up until the early 1980s, it was against the law to produce kids cartoons based on a toy line. however, the election of ronald reagan as president changed that, and he-man was the first of what would become standard practice among children’s entertainment properties. kinda cool.

then there was this celluloid atrocity:

i think the notion of setting a formerly successful franchise in space was a concept that permeated the late 80s and early 90s. ‘generic kids cartoon slipping it the ratings? fuck it! set it in space and call it a day it!’ luckily, the property was briefly redeemed in 2002 and 2003 with this:

theres your history lesson for the day.

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