Day 7

It is over.

I'm done. I really am finished. Everything is in place and I have pushed the stone down the hill. The release of potential energy has formed kinetic and it moves. IT was hard but I put it together. I painted a mock wall, formed a Ghost of Starman out of chicken wire, taped it up, painted it, drilled some holes, made a visor and some badges, cooked a visor, stapled it to a wall, and painted some more. And of course rigged it up so it glowed!

It was hard but anything is possible with time, effort, and willpower. What will I do next year? I don't know, I have a few ideas but I'm unsure right now. Maybe something smaller, I'm a bit tired from all this. We shall see. Maybe next year, I'll make a giant Giygas or something!

Day 5 Redux

Wait, what? I thought we were on day 6?

Well I finally found my Day 5 pics :D they were actually on my Dad's computer. Pretty odd. On this day, I stayed up late. REAL LATE. I also melted plexiglass in the oven to make the visor and badges and such. It was hot, painful, tiring, and pretty stupid of me. It got the job done, spick and spam. Then I played with power tools. FUN. This was all at like 2 in the morning. I got the job done. Then I stapled the figure to the wall using a power stapler. Much fun. A very fun, tired night.

Day BONUS

Special Movie, tilt head for MAXIMUM EFFECT. Made by me and my Dad.

Day 6

DONE, DONE, AND, DONE!


Well I finished up today. After that long haul I pulled on Day 5 I really didn't have that much work left to do. I simply dragged the guy outside and spray painted him a little. I also rigged up some lights and added some red "goo" I found to give that nice red effect. I came a long way, from humble origins in painting walls and twisting wire to a fully-fleshed out apparition! Anyways, the end product is a Ghost of Starman coming through a wall. It lights up, I made it all by hand, and it took a while and was cool. I'm tired, I'll find pics from day 5 tomorrow and post them and upload some more stuff. And probably do some big reflexive post on the whole thing and go over what I did. Thank you for reading my blog and have a Happy Halloween :D


Check out the Slideshow one last time to see it from beginning to end, with part of the middle missing. I'll find it I swear.

Day 5

SCENE MISSING WILL BE ADDED

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times. times. times.

When I'm not in the "workshop" (my basement), I like to think. I think about everything. I plan my next move and the move after that. I mentally build my project usually weeks, if not months, ahead of time. This allows me to put it all together in relative ease and comfort. I truly enjoy building this "projects". They are a great creative output for my pent up Artistic Rage! I spend probably 3 months planning each "project". I spend even more time thinking about it!

All I can say is that each of these things I do has never been done before, at least not on a scale like this. These are LIFE-SIZE, and sometimes even bigger! Sure, I've only done 1.5 "projects" but I'm making a promise here and now that I will do more, and each one will be bigger and better than the last. More detail, more time, more effort, more EarthBound. Maybe Nintendo will be like, "Hey, freakin' kidz is buildin' UrfBowndz in his yard every year, maybe we should release the game." Course that is a horrible delusion on my part but, oh well. Others make pictures, other photoshop things, others make cutesy models. I just build. I make it bigger and better than anyone else.

I wish others would build EarthBound things, it is a bit of a lonely trade. Seriously these are the things that get front page'd on Kotaku or even digg! These are the things that get out there. These are the things people look at and it makes them want to go out and play the game.

I build because of EarthBound.

P.S. I'LL BE IN THE WORKSHOP NEXT WEEKEND EXPECT PIX.

Day 4

BREAK TIME! After this post, there will be a two day lull in my activity. The reason: COLLEGE!

I went through 4 rolls of tape today and many more black plastic bags to make the "skin" of the figure. Fun stuff except it took a while... a long while to do. Nevertheless there is still progress in work and it is quite noticeable. After applying and affixing the "skin" I had to spray paint it all black. I went through two cans and a brutal verbal beating by my father. I eventually told him that "it builds character", then he got all teary eyed and wandered off into the woods around my house. I love my family.


FUN FACT: I used last year's entry as a drop cloth for the painting of this year's entry! What a waste :D