It has been quite some time since I’ve done a photo set. Yesterday I took in 4 rolls of Holga film. 2 rolls had been sitting in my desk, while another had been in the camera for at least a year. I had a blast running around taking pictures over the weekend and going through these this afternoon. Below are only a few of the 20 or so I have on my flickr page.
I’ve just realized that I do a lot of projects that involve booze, its a good thing they tend to come out awesome. Over the weekend I made three liquor bottle lamps. Two out of Jaeger bottles, and the third from an old wine bottle for my roommate.
This was pretty easy, I cut a hole in the back of the bottle and fed a string of Christmas lights into it. A little shuffling with my high tech reorganizing light wand or “coat hanger” is it is also called, and it was done. I hope to sell the two green bottles online, I just need to make sure they are safe. The suckers get pretty hot after a few hours of being on, and condensation is building up on the inside… and that is bad. I’ll probably buy some beef jerkey and take the moisture packs out and use those.
Nick
Its Tuesday and you know what that means!!! Pictographs!!! I ran pictures one and three through an application called CameraBag and number two of Sukie happens almost every three seconds. I just checked to make sure she is still adorable and yep… cute as a button.
I love the IT Crowd, if you haven’t seen it. PLEASE go out and pick up the DVDs of all three seasons. They get progressively better, and the best episode so far was in the middle of Series 3, Episode 4 titled “The Speech.” Jen has to give a speech as employee of the month about her field (IT/Computers) but doesn’t know anything about the subject. So she is helped out by her two coworkers and given “THE INTERNET.” I can’t tell you how many times I laughed at this scene and decided I must build my own.
This week, a new instructable came out about how to build a circuit that would do the same thing. I already had a blinking LED light from my robot santa costume, so I modified that a little bit, added a switch to turn it on and off without having to open the box and presto, I have the internet. I can’t hang onto it for that long though, I’ve got to take it to the top of the Empire State Building, where it gets the best reception.
About a year ago I started this little project to wire my apple remote into an NES controller. At the time I had a really difficult time and it didn’t actually work out. This week I decided to dust it off and try again. My soldering skills have improved greatly as well as my understanding of electronics.
Here is the instructable I used to complete the project, and below is a video of it in use. You can control itunes with it. If I ever decide to turn my macbook into a low powered entertainment center for my kitchen someday, this might come in handy.