Canon Creative Park is an excellent place to go for Halloween papercraft. Last year I posted their awesome Jack-o’-lantern Family. This year brings another one from Canon, Halloween Night. The model comes in A4 and Letter paper sizes, and is a fun addition to the Halloween paper model collection.
Congrats to NASA on today’s successful flight test of the Ares 1-X rocket. It was the first new vehicle to rise from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in over 25 years. It’s a test version of the rocket designed to carry a 4 to 6-person crew capsule called Orion into space. Hopefully this successful launch will spur Congress and the White House to provide further funding.
Introduction
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is one of those games everyone said I should have played, but I never did. I got my PlayStation 3 at roughly same time that Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune came out from developer Naughty Dog, but given that the console had been out for a year or more, I felt that there were plenty of games to choose from, and that I could probably pick up some things on sale rather than a brand new $60 game. Plus, IMO it had the misfortune of having a lousy demo.
I had heard that it was a Tomb Raider-esque game, and downloaded the demo with those expectations. But the demo starts you off just after the plane crash (Chapter 4), and aside from one or two platforms to jump across, all you do the entire demo is shoot at people. No puzzle elements, very little platforming elements. Just shoot, shoot, shoot. My initial thoughts were “well, his pants do look wet when he walks through water, but aside from that, what’s the big deal?”
As the release of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves approached this month, I began to think more about the original. High praise was starting to come in on the sequel. Some people I talked to kept telling me that I was crazy not to have played the first game, and that the demo was not very representative of the whole game. So I picked it up two weeks ago at the buy two get one free sale at Toys R Us, and finished it this week. So was it worth it after all?
Just replaced my old nasty mousepad with this one. Makes me want to Load “*”,8,1.
Appy Rockin’ Monday! I’m a fan of Rock Band on the Xbox 360. I own Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and The Beatles: Rock Band on that platform. So an official Rock Band app for the iPhone / iPod Touch immediately peaked my curiosity.
I was watching True Blood on DVD and this popped into my mind right before the start of an episode. Gotta love it.
I jumped right from A Game of Thrones to A Clash of Kings, Book 2 of “A Song of Ice and Fire” by George R.R. Martin. Once again I listened to the unabridged 36+ hour audiobook read masterfully by Roy Dotrice. The book unapologetically picks up right where the first book left off, with very little in the way of recap. What else would happen to the Starks, the Lannisters? How would Daenerys and her newborn dragons play a part? Or John Snow up in the frozen north? Most improtantly…
…is it a worthly continuation of the series?
I saw this a few weeks back, and it’s pretty awesome. I try to focus on papercraft that I might either put together myself or with the family, and a life-sized model could be very time-consuming and difficult, so I didn’t feature it. Since then, some YouTube videos have been posted about the making of it, including a stop motion video of the whole thing going together. Makes me think maybe I could tackle part of it, like the Master Sword or the shield. Hmm….
If you’re ambitious, you can download the 197 page, 831 piece model at PaperCraft Museum. I’ve included the stop motion video after the jump. If you build it, send me pics!
I keep looking at this to see how it was done, but haven’t figured it out yet.
via Geekologie
…The Journey’s Not Yet Done
StephenKing.com has been teasing something to be coming in November called The Dark Tower Project. Today they released “the opening credits” trailer, which says to “Come and Play 11.30.09″. Looks to me to be some type of interactive web game. The announcement comes from StephenKing.com and Metro Digital Media Artists (Metro DMA), who did the StephenKing.com website, among many other things. It also said it’s directed by Robin Furth, who in addition to being King’s personal research assistant, is the author of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance, and who has plotted the excellent Dark Tower comic series. Click the photo above to go to the site and watch the video.
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