AnneLine Posted June 21, 2013 Posted June 21, 2013 A BIRTHDAY? burn it with FIRE!!!!! ....................................
arfink Posted June 21, 2013 Author Posted June 21, 2013 They got me some screen printing supplies. You know what this means. ;)
To Jesus Through Mary Posted June 22, 2013 Posted June 22, 2013 HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! Pray it is super blessed!!
arfink Posted June 22, 2013 Author Posted June 22, 2013 This is a very cool concept. Some people in Japan have been experimenting with using 3D printing to make unusual architecture. Using fractals, they have designed a room with a vault, columns, cornices, and a dizzying array of intricate textures, and printed it in 1/3 scale by bonding grains of sand together to make artificial sandstone. It has a strange baroque and grotesque form, but when viewed up close becomes an intricate web of beautiful fractal patterns. [media]http://vimeo.com/68364565[/media] To my eyes, it looks somewhat nightmarish, but in other ways I find it quite appealing. I can't quite decide how I feel about this. At any rate, the 3D printer they used to make it is astoundingly impressive. It appears to have been hand-built specifically for this application. I can't tell how they bond the sand, but it is apparently not by laser sintering, as I would have expected, as this would not produce sandstone, but glass.
arfink Posted June 24, 2013 Author Posted June 24, 2013 Unexpectedly being whisked off to parties is unusual. But the one they took me to today (a graduation party) had tacos, so that was nice. :) Also, our parish has no electricity for the time being, due to our big storm, and a tree which conveniently toppled over right on the hookup lines for the parish and rectory.
AnneLine Posted June 24, 2013 Posted June 24, 2013 Ooops? a candlelight mass? and tacos? That doesn't sound TOOOOOOO bad, ARFink! I can think of worse ways to spend a Sunday!
arfink Posted June 25, 2013 Author Posted June 25, 2013 (edited) Well, my bday was pretty nice. I got fed to within an inch of my life. My friend Phil and my sister Sarah took me out for pizza at lunch time, and as usual we got too much food and had a grand time. I went home and lounged about for a bit, and later I went to my friend Jared's place with Phil where he and Jared's fiancé Beth made burritos for all of us, as well as cupcakes. We were going to go bowling but then that big storm came in, so we stayed inside and played Settlers of Catan, and it was good. All the houses and apartments around lost power, but not ours. It was very strange, we were very blessed! We drove through what I later found out was one of the harder hit areas and didn't even have to contend with trees in the road and only one spot with any standing water, which wasn't too bad at all. Could have been much worse. Again, a blessed day! I also got about the most insanely huge pile of presents. I got a pizza stone and peel, all the stuff so I can finally learn how to do screen printing, a hairbrush for the mop that lives on top of my head, some nice soap, a whole case of Diet Coke, and a blue polo shirt. All the good stuffs. :D Edited June 25, 2013 by arfink
brianthephysicist Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 Well, the painting is more or less finished. I didn't go into this with any plan besides to play with my new tools and see what I could really do with them, and so although the composition is a little bland, I think it's alright. :) BTW, I wrote a bit about the process here, and a little bit of how I did things with the tools. http://weaselsgonarf.blogspot.com/2013/06/daily-draw-son-rays-aka-playing-with.html And here is the finished product. Beautiful Love this cute house-bus conversion. http://steampunkworkshop.com/bus1.shtml Dude, that's awesome. I want to learn to be that resourceful. Well, my bday was pretty nice. I got fed to within an inch of my life. My friend Phil and my sister Sarah took me out for pizza at lunch time, and as usual we got too much food and had a grand time. I went home and lounged about for a bit, and later I went to my friend Jared's place with Phil where he and Jared's fiancé Beth made burritos for all of us, as well as cupcakes. We were going to go bowling but then that big storm came in, so we stayed inside and played Settlers of Catan, and it was good. All the houses and apartments around lost power, but not ours. It was very strange, we were very blessed! We drove through what I later found out was one of the harder hit areas and didn't even have to contend with trees in the road and only one spot with any standing water, which wasn't too bad at all. Could have been much worse. Again, a blessed day! I also got about the most insanely huge pile of presents. I got a pizza stone and peel, all the stuff so I can finally learn how to do screen printing, a hairbrush for the mop that lives on top of my head, some nice soap, a whole case of Diet Coke, and a blue polo shirt. All the good stuffs. :D That sounds awesome dude. I didn't know our birthdays were so close together lol.
arfink Posted June 26, 2013 Author Posted June 26, 2013 Beautiful Dude, that's amesome. I want to learn to be that resourceful. That sounds amesome dude. I didn't know our birthdays were so close together lol. Come hang out some day, I can teach you things. :)
Oremoose Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 Hey I saw in my wanderings of the interwebz and it reminded me of that bus house you showed.http://inthralld.com/2012/11/super-small-tumbleweed-house-on-a-trailer/ Flat bed Trailer house!
arfink Posted June 26, 2013 Author Posted June 26, 2013 That's a Tumbleweed tiny trailer house, they sell plans here: http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/ They look quite comfortable, and would make most excellent hermitages.
arfink Posted June 29, 2013 Author Posted June 29, 2013 [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tZdE-3nR3w[/media] ^^ Made with lasers! Also with a CNC machine. I could conceivably make such a thing perhaps. But for now, I just gaze upon its wonder, and think. :)
arfink Posted June 30, 2013 Author Posted June 30, 2013 Well, I had to order some parts on Digikey. I thought I had the parts that I needed, but my box o' assorted resisters has apparently gone missing. Fortunately Digikey is in Minnesota, so I should have my parts soon. Why couldn't I buy them at Radio Shack, you may ask? Let me see here. I needed 1 piece of a 100 ohm resister. Radio Shack charges $1.50 for a part that costs a few pennies from any sensible seller like Digikey. Sure, I could afford it. But why bother? I needed a bunch of other things from Digikey too, and so my order came to $8 for what I'd probably bay $20 at Radio Shack and I wouldn't have even gotten the exact style of parts I wanted. :P
arfink Posted July 1, 2013 Author Posted July 1, 2013 Sometimes the best things happen when you make something, and throw it away and make yourself do it over again. I know, it sounds stupid, but sometimes it just works. Junk. More junk. Finally getting closer!
arfink Posted July 1, 2013 Author Posted July 1, 2013 If you can figure out what the car owner in this picture is trying to do, you win all the internets. ;) (FYI, I know exactly what he's trying to do, and I think he's brilliant!)
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