metal_0049

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Made this fun little thing – a palette cleanser between the hex nut madness of metal_0048 and moving on to learning laser welding and the TBD metal_0050 – from two pairs of my grandfathers' pliers (and bolt cutter), with a base thrown together from not-quite heavy enough building materials and barn wood scrap. Planning to build a new one once I find something heavy enough to make it play-withable(new word, fuck it) while in its base in addition to being the same in hand-held mode. Core word in its construction was "delight"; wanted to make something my silver-smithing grandmother might have made on a lark.

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Today being one of those post-project massive Shed clean-up days which have become essential rituals - but this one especially so: I'm finally getting the laser welder set up. Or at least figuring out what I need to get to set it up (I think just a thing of 1mm steel wire but 🤷🤷🤷. Also have to set up a thing to mount my little argon tank to the wall which may need to be changed depending on how much argon this Goldfinger device actually uses. Computer monitor sits, wanting me to work at it but these days my happiest creative moments are spent away from screens with a (shielded) faceful of sparks or scribbling with a pencil in a notebook. Rolling with it.

metal_0048

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Being a devout fan of ALIEN neck deep in the excellence that is ALIEN: EARTH, I decided it'd be an intriguing experiment to make a facehugger out of hex nuts. Took inspiration from HOW TO DRAW COMICS THE MARVEL WAY for the stand, an über-minimalist face being hugged. Considering this one a success – though if I never see a hex nut again I'll be good.

an alien facehugger made of hex nuts
an alien facehugger made of hex nuts

🔗 Deus Ex Writer Says The Fact Elon Musk Loves It Is Its ‘Worst Legacy’

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via Kotaku:

“It’s bizarre that Elon Musk would not recognize where he actually sits in theDeus Ex universe, because it is not in the JC Denton role,” Grossman said. “Musk plainly imagines he’s the JC Denton of this world—a plainspoken everyman, standing up to the elite. As is obvious to everyone, Musk is the one with power and he’s just pathologically incapable of honest introspection.”

He continued, “I would say Musk is like a Deus Ex villain, except that the franchise doesn’t have any villains as whiny and self-servingly delusional as he’s shown himself to be.”