tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19479005071891728692024-03-06T07:10:41.683+09:00MonsterosityThis blog is about my little journey, the adventure of living in Japan, the exploration of my creative drive, my dream to become a successful artist, designer, craftsman type dude and creating my own path.
Queue music "I did it my way" aaaand go!Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-8552620656017873742010-12-01T15:45:00.002+09:002010-12-01T16:59:55.558+09:00Huston We Have A Problem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Sj5s5T-eZ1MoOAjJTdZY44mjeyE9seR86w2eFlBcvMnWDwOWeuX8hAUOYhPcEWm2RcyQP18RtdK1rK2khkcHYa5u8mmr2AsM-kla6Vq1xHl1QwA1yw7uy_i2xhk-45u7IiyYJc0zga8/s1600/dead-computer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Sj5s5T-eZ1MoOAjJTdZY44mjeyE9seR86w2eFlBcvMnWDwOWeuX8hAUOYhPcEWm2RcyQP18RtdK1rK2khkcHYa5u8mmr2AsM-kla6Vq1xHl1QwA1yw7uy_i2xhk-45u7IiyYJc0zga8/s400/dead-computer.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span> </span>computer crash at <strong><span style="color: magenta;">Monsterosity</span></strong> headquarters has caused company wide panic and havoc this week. In an article only a few weeks ago <span style="color: magenta;">Monsterositys</span> president spoke of their plans for upgrading their technology and equipment, it seems they left it to late.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In a press conference this morning <strong><span style="color: magenta;">Monsterosity</span></strong> President and CEO of <a href="http://www.customempire.blogspot.com/"><strong>Custom Empire</strong></a> said that with his Flight to <span id="goog_1535459896"></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia">Australia<span id="goog_1535459897"></span></a> only two weeks away this disaster couldn't have happened at a worse time and the prospects of recovery and being safely up and running any time soon doesn't look good. He went on to say that this has also had a devastating effect on <a href="http://www.customempire.blogspot.com/">Custom Empire</a> the parent company... thusly impacting the <a href="http://www.customempire.blogspot.com/">Custom Empire blog</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"I'm here to let you know that we have retreated to regroup and work out our next strategy the company president said with a brave hand raised in reassurance, "so that we can come back in force next year, I will of course do everything in my power to get everything back up ASAP" He said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At this point it is believed the crash was caused by sabotage possibly by someone in within the<span style="color: magenta;"> <strong>Monsterosity</strong></span> organization.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"We have our suspicions but no hard and fast proof as of yet" the company president said. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The photo above was taken by the company security cameras at the time of the incident. If you look closely you can see a suspicious looking person in the back ground, "unfortunately the photo is not clear enough for us to identify who this person is". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"If you know this person or have any information regarding the heinous act of sabotage please come forward. Your help is greatly appreciated". the company president said.</span>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-49149580085744365392010-11-28T19:16:00.001+09:002010-11-28T19:16:00.710+09:00El Diablo Toy Box<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><strong>T</strong></span>his is a quick vid on the packaging/ box of the vinyl toy El Dioblo... I think its a cool vid i regards to hat goes into making a vinyl toy and all the extra bits as well. This is a follow up on the making of El Diablo.</span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The next artist in our DF series is Nijisuke. This guys painting were fantastic. Unfortunately I went to Design Festa with a very tight budget and set plans for said budget so I wasn’t able to buy from this talented guy... something i still regret. But not to worry, cos, we have all his contact details. I cant stress enough how cool these painting really were, they were full of great vibrant colour as well as texture and pattern... the photos really don’t do them justice. On top of being a great artist he was a super cool dude. In fact if you a look at my photos and or his blog, and you find something you like, love, cant live without, send me an email an I’ll do what I can to help, you know with the Japanese and stuff like that.... that’s how much I liked this guy and his art.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Thanks for reading guys, have a kick ass awesome day!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Stay tuned for more great artists from DF coming soon to a Monsterosity blog near you</span></div>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-83138411081969989502010-11-24T19:05:00.000+09:002010-11-24T19:05:00.739+09:00MAKING-DIABLO<object height="344" style="background-image: url(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/drCzrHc_ibk/hqdefault.jpg);" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/drCzrHc_ibk&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/drCzrHc_ibk&hl=en_US&fs=1" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-36145241932845853342010-11-22T10:44:00.004+09:002010-11-22T13:45:19.560+09:00How to Paint Oxidized Metal Effect<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="295" style="background-image: url(http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/Kcok9hwCJJg/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Kcok9hwCJJg?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Kcok9hwCJJg?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="480" height="295" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Oxidized or rusted paint effects are very big with some toy customizing artists like Sket 1 as well as Chris Rose and Southern Drawl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">There are many different ways these effects can be achieved and this video shows you just one way... at some point in the future I hope to get a few tutorials of this kind of paint work on vinyl toys but for now here is one I found on YouTube... enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ps: if you try this out on vinyl let us know, tell us what you think and how it went.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Any who I also did a lot of thinking on how I wanted to deliver the info I collected from the super cool artists at DF and decided that the best thing for me to do was to break it up into sections (artists) so you folks would have the time to pop on over to their various websites and also so I didn’t have to write a great big huge long post... everybody wins; love that!</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The other thing I need to tell ya is that Im not gonna give you a generalized rundown of DF so if you would like that kinda info I think the best blog to pop on over to is <a href="http://kaijukorner.blogspot.com/">Kaiju Korna</a>. Andy has a great blog with a great run down on DF as well as being totally on top of things as far as toy events and stuff happening in Tokyo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">So with out any further babble here’s the beginning of a long list of Cool artists I met at DF VOL 32.</span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong><a href="http://vista-lab.net/">Vista Lab.</a></strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Ok so I told you a little lie I didnt actually get to meet the artist behind this display because they werent there when i was but it was a cool display with a custom Munny and some very coll resin cast toys. The have a great website and a lot of it is in English. You can check them out here<strong>...</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<a href="http://customempire.blogspot.com/2010/09/choose-your-weapon.html?spref=bl"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">CustomEmpire: Choose your weapon</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">: "It’s amazing when you first realize you are destined to be the all mighty god of creation, with the power to create the creatures in your e..."</span>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-85195516470883298472010-11-07T23:25:00.000+09:002010-11-07T23:25:56.465+09:00Design Festa Vol.32<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijpwktTjP9sIQal21SyoM-DRGjJcryIoS9vif0FZGCHw7vJJ38t7X_b0s6iiYThwAz8LH6-GIKaF84FKYiccxzdX6FZOS1Vrjm79X1yhoW4N3AASj1NTw07KxNOId1249on_IgC5l2wtk/s1600/DSC07778.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijpwktTjP9sIQal21SyoM-DRGjJcryIoS9vif0FZGCHw7vJJ38t7X_b0s6iiYThwAz8LH6-GIKaF84FKYiccxzdX6FZOS1Vrjm79X1yhoW4N3AASj1NTw07KxNOId1249on_IgC5l2wtk/s400/DSC07778.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">This</span></strong> weekend was a special weekend here in Tokyo for any and all who might be arty types or friends there of because this weekend was <a href="http://www.designfesta.com/index.html"><strong>Design Festa</strong></a> weekend.... and it was Totally Awesome!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">However as it is 11pm here and I spent the whole day today padding around the masive Tokyo Bigsite talking to funky arty people and taking photos like a crazy tourist, after staying up half the night with the <a href="http://www.toybreak.com/"><strong>Toy Break</strong></a> crew on there 24 hour telethon thingy (which I also need to give you a run down on)........I’m shagged (the tired kind, if you’re Australian and reading that word differently). So I will be back later this week with more info for your pretty eyes to gobble up as well as photos and a heap of cool websites of amazing Japanese artists, a rad comic illustrator and some wicked toy designers… Yay!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Have a great start to the week... go kick some ass and <span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">enjoy!</span> </span><br />
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</span>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-29227278261707176812010-11-06T18:53:00.000+09:002010-11-06T18:53:00.663+09:00ヨーコ・マルシェ オープン<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Ninniqun</span></strong></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">B</span></strong>ack home safe and sound in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Aomori</city></place>, Ninniqun is already making top level connections, by meeting the Mayor of Aomori as well as making his first, of what im sure will be many public appearances.</span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-65779704499238334422010-11-04T09:37:00.001+09:002010-11-04T09:37:00.169+09:00ニンニキュン着ぐるみが完成<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-61185395026757017432010-11-02T08:49:00.005+09:002010-11-02T08:54:06.147+09:00Monster Kolor presents IN LIVING KOLOR<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">H</span><span style="color: red; font-size: small;">ey</span></strong></span> Found this awesome video interview by Design Festa Galleries of the In Living Kolor guys, Matt Walker and Mark Nagata. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><object height="344" style="background-image: url(http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/98JSnKzhE64/hqdefault.jpg);" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/98JSnKzhE64?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/98JSnKzhE64?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-71813177613580710942010-10-31T18:43:00.001+09:002010-10-31T18:45:20.610+09:00アダムの誕生日 (だけどニンニキュンの制作中)<div style="text-align: center;"><object height="344" style="background-image: url(http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/TC5bpH74R8k/hqdefault.jpg);" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TC5bpH74R8k?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TC5bpH74R8k?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;">Although canceled, my new found friends here in Japan as well as some people I have known for a long time and are very dear to my heart, rocked on over to my house anyway, and they didn’t just visit they brought presents, food, cake and fun. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;">I have to tell you that while I was working my butt off and even though I was tired as and high on glue fumes (you can see the garlic skin fabric in my lap) these people gave me one of the best birthdays I have ever had, I truly felt special and it made me feel that my life here in Japan although tough sometimes will work out after all.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: small;">So once again a great big giant thank you to you special people, you know who you are... </span><br />
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</strong>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-25913115522610947972010-10-31T18:03:00.002+09:002010-10-31T18:13:45.890+09:00Ninniku Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGhcDjrG4Nk0g7za-ZlEjQBe2sTuHP2dk8_E2rFC-paEZN4iUp9JkeFMIp2xk2eKLk2AQE2s9Vqi9WeaG59MUWROzHu7nKugAMsj6o4OKDL6YPVCVnBoo6fITEP6ZdCptQLBk_YZwLbpw/s1600/PP-tropical%2520blue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="65" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGhcDjrG4Nk0g7za-ZlEjQBe2sTuHP2dk8_E2rFC-paEZN4iUp9JkeFMIp2xk2eKLk2AQE2s9Vqi9WeaG59MUWROzHu7nKugAMsj6o4OKDL6YPVCVnBoo6fITEP6ZdCptQLBk_YZwLbpw/s400/PP-tropical%2520blue.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">H</span>ey hey, so as I mentioned in the last post I have finished the giant garlic, Ninniqun, and he went off to his home in Aomori on the 19th.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anyway because I have been so crazy busy I haven’t been able to keep you up dated, however as there is a typhoon today I have no distractions and no excuse not to sit here at my coputer and catch you up on all the Ninniku(garlic) happenings of the last month as well as some progress photos. As with all the other posts on Ninniqun, you can of course head on over to the </span><a href="http://ninnic.jp/times/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Ninniku blog</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> to check it out in Japanese.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">First up here are some photos of Ninniqun with half the foam on...</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On Japanese TV... yes, thats right I'm a star in my own living room...hehehe</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu9W8ihlpPIIwXWUbqN89_pVTsu7Qt1zeZWJ0xpxjMKpXmE4vkOA6FWRjAySldG6FOemrPsu8ecTJ73hcwddam_7H5YXBhYxd6E3eYRbGPQxNRU0YAPS5D9SMoe_V1AP8qKfkL0CByTgg/s1600/2010oct_adam_work3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu9W8ihlpPIIwXWUbqN89_pVTsu7Qt1zeZWJ0xpxjMKpXmE4vkOA6FWRjAySldG6FOemrPsu8ecTJ73hcwddam_7H5YXBhYxd6E3eYRbGPQxNRU0YAPS5D9SMoe_V1AP8qKfkL0CByTgg/s400/2010oct_adam_work3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Skin</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Sewing the garlic skin in my tiny work room</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNlzctcHAXoPibcE_y9h9BBc4d5W27lGC6lOjczFhrE7iVNHwAbLaIybotKy35qun8JcNVFS-KdtXTebQIGc1XMc9XR6heb2pZyNTVXOS0wkf2hhMWZxnwDCZD9b-fEZbS0z4Xqq_CduQ/s1600/2010oct_ninniqun_work3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNlzctcHAXoPibcE_y9h9BBc4d5W27lGC6lOjczFhrE7iVNHwAbLaIybotKy35qun8JcNVFS-KdtXTebQIGc1XMc9XR6heb2pZyNTVXOS0wkf2hhMWZxnwDCZD9b-fEZbS0z4Xqq_CduQ/s400/2010oct_ninniqun_work3.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>Face</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Working out the face, we dide this before the skin was finished because Aya and Yu were at my house. Once we marked the face possition the skin came off again too finnish sewing it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">I was also lucky to have a faithful assistant handing me pins...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ON7T5DM7fr6emYhWABa8au7MK7umXoxzxIjIUgnRrxjq2IcdpXBpiMLqhMUxCmDVIRaMmzC1OFlo01nskOcxNaBxnbI6JY_pEIUNgHoiUZ_rVPFLwqZpTk-EWeaoyZbxdzbQNpYA5Do/s1600/2010oct_ninniqun_work5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ON7T5DM7fr6emYhWABa8au7MK7umXoxzxIjIUgnRrxjq2IcdpXBpiMLqhMUxCmDVIRaMmzC1OFlo01nskOcxNaBxnbI6JY_pEIUNgHoiUZ_rVPFLwqZpTk-EWeaoyZbxdzbQNpYA5Do/s400/2010oct_ninniqun_work5.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Aya and Yu work out the mouth position...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHVz97tIvH7XEZ7LSbvhwsrVms_vD0aoP45yE_bJKUhbGx789LpP1ffQWjgXxCZPHTZIeEd_Bygi31BtEdELI8hG9ejmeDNUH6gU0fSGdMg1P7YTcD2f2gthOhr3-UEXMGO6etvE3i35I/s1600/2010oct_ninniqun_work6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHVz97tIvH7XEZ7LSbvhwsrVms_vD0aoP45yE_bJKUhbGx789LpP1ffQWjgXxCZPHTZIeEd_Bygi31BtEdELI8hG9ejmeDNUH6gU0fSGdMg1P7YTcD2f2gthOhr3-UEXMGO6etvE3i35I/s400/2010oct_ninniqun_work6.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">T</span>he day most of these photos were taken and the day the biggest part of this project was done, was originally organised for my birthday BBQ. However I was sobusy that i needed to cancle the BBQ. All my mates came over anyway and it turned into a grat day of working and fun.... So a great big thank you to all my palls here in Japan for coming over, keeping me company, and helping me out... <span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">you guys rock!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">La</span><span style="color: red;">st</span></strong></span></span> weekend I was super excited because not only did I get Ninnikun, the giant garlic finished (the reason I haven’t been able to post lately, at least, that’s my excuse and im sticking to it) for the Aomori festival but also because having finished that project I was free to go to the In Living Kolor show in Harajuku, Tokyo. This turned out to be the best and most awesomest weekend of all.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The show was held at the Design Festa galleries in Harajuku Tokyo and was a two part show held on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th of this month. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In Living Kolor, was the collaboration show of Matt Walker the creator of Monster Kolor a paint he has developed for custom toy pant work (released not so long ago), the dude behind Dead presidents Designs (his own personal art work) and also the dude behind Presidential Coatings (a custom production toy painting company) and Mark Nagata an awesome illustrator, artist, toy designer and the owner of <a href="http://www.maxtoyco.com/">Max Toy company</a>... </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As these two guys have so much going on I will pull together a more detailed post on them individually in the coming weeks... thanks guys for giving me such great blog content!!!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As mentioned the show was divided into two parts, on the Saturday there was a live participation painting day where artists and well any body else could go and give the Monster Kolor paints a test drive, unfortunately I wasn’t able to get there till later in the day so I don’t have many photos of cool people in action but I did meet a cool dude, Andy who runs the <a href="http://www.kaijukorner.blogspot.com/">KaijuKorner blog</a> so pop on over there later and check out his coverage of the day (lots of action shots).</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Th</span><span style="color: red;">e</span></strong></span> second day was an open class given by Matt Walker on the art of Pin Striping and thankfully, I sucked it up and gave it a go. To my surprise and although terribly fearful of making a complete fool of myself, this was a lot fun… in fact it is an activity that takes time and patients and I really get into things like that. Again this is something I want to give you more information on so I wont dribble on to much about it here. I will say though that actually doing this is really hard, it looks a pinch when the master Matt Walker does it but once you give it a go you really developed a new appreciation for the art…. Stay tuned for more on this topic in the coming weeks. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To finish up I really have to tell you this was a not only a great show but also a great experience, and not what I was expecting. While this was the first time Id met both Matt and Mark, both of them took the time out not only to chat with me about the show but were also interested in what I was up to, as well as super helpful with advice. It was really great to speak with people who were so open and willing to share there information and knowledge about there art and the industry, as a fella that wants to ge involed it was really awesome.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A big thank you to both Mark and Matt for a great show… we hope to see you again in Japan in the near future!!!</span></div></div></div>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-41875394415971476662010-09-22T00:58:00.000+09:002010-09-22T00:58:49.029+09:00E47 Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">E47 ART</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So I'm not only here to tell you to go have a look but I also want you to do me a favor, pop over to his blog and click follow the reason I want you to do this is because I think this dude should be making more of his cool awesome art toys. To help that happen we need to show our support, and if your a super cool person you will leave a comment, lets face its not hard to tell the dude how cool his pieces are.. So be a cool person and support this dude! </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On the topic of customizing E47 really shows us that you can use anything and make really cool awesome art</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Awesome work E47 Please keep it up and show us more!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><a href="http://e47art.blogspot.com/">http://e47art.blogspot.com/</a></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Dude! Are you still here? Get you ass over there and leave a comment and dont forget to click follow on his blog!</span>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-33287623029123878372010-09-21T10:13:00.001+09:002010-09-21T10:17:40.536+09:00Brusha, brusha, brusha!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCC77s94KBf8EIx4iyk6DERDsBMu7m97AtRw4eBSKi4XEjtXXcA4pzH1YkhSV1M1Iio_J2pvw-vUCoNzYKtB97nJjrDQ2GCozNLIuQpKnf1d-8HKAeiy3J_7d1n45nI3aoB0Rtrr_-naI/s1600/pheydenbanner.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="121" qx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCC77s94KBf8EIx4iyk6DERDsBMu7m97AtRw4eBSKi4XEjtXXcA4pzH1YkhSV1M1Iio_J2pvw-vUCoNzYKtB97nJjrDQ2GCozNLIuQpKnf1d-8HKAeiy3J_7d1n45nI3aoB0Rtrr_-naI/s400/pheydenbanner.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A good set of paint brushes will make your painting time easier and more enjoyable but that doesn’t mean you need to mortgage the house for a quality set… if I told you that you wife(or husband) would hunt me down and kill me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There is a wide range of quality and prices out there, both available on the web and at your local art supplies or hobby store. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It is usually cheaper to buy your (first/starter)) brushes in a kit as apposed to individually… however don’t get sucked into pretty boxes/ cases and all that, as the likelihood of you using the box/case is slim to none. I got fooled into this trap (by myself sadly and not by some cheesy used brush salesman)…and I’m embarrassed to say I paid more for the pretty case thinking I would keep my brushes beautiful and pristine in the case… now my brushes while clean and in good order are livin in an empty jam jar on my desk, the pretty case is in the cupboard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">That said if you intend on traveling with your brushes then maybe it’s worth the consideration… But if your cherished loved one sees you paying an extra $20-$30 for a pretty case your not gonna use… your on your own buddy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Painting is a large part of customizing toys, once all the shape modification (if you’re customizing the shape) is done the final stage is usually painting your character. Painting your figure can be done with various different paint mediums however because acrylic paints are the easiest and most commonly used I’ll focus on brushes for acrylic paints in this article.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There is a wealth of information out there on brushes and lot of the information about brush sizes, shapes and uses is in fact common for all of the main paint mediums and many of the brushes are some what interchangeable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Originally oil paint brushes, which were and still are made from natural hair fibers, were used for acrylic paints, but these days an ever increasing range of acrylic brushes, designed specifically for this medium are readily available.. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You can or course use almost any kind of brush either natural or synthetic depending on, what you are trying to achieve, your style and own personal preferences… and who am I to tell you other wise. However acrylic paints although generally no toxic are ruthless on brush fibers making the synthetic (usually nylon) brushes more resilient than natural fibers. Using nylon brushes for your acrylic paints will ultimately make your life easier because they will be easier to clean and care for in regards to using them with your acrylic paints. Acrylic paint has a tendency o stick to natural fibers turning your much loved and pricy sable brushes into hard pointy stabbing tools better used for killing vampires than painting. So unless you have a vampire problem in your studio, in the long run using the nylon brushes (with your acrylics) will also save you some money… and make me popular in the eyes of your loved one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You can of course get nylon filament brushes in a wide range of sizes, shapes and also for use with different paint mediums…. These brushes usually come in both short and long handles depending on your painting style and you can use your acrylic paint brushes with oil paints with out issue, provided you care for them appropriately. We will go into care and maintenance in another article later on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Below are the main types of acrylic paint brushes and what brush strokes they're generally used for. At first I wasn’t going to list all the different types of brushes because I didn’t think some of them would be appropriate for painting on toys however on second thoughts customizing and painting toys is a widely creative arena and so I figure appropriateness should be left up to you the artist to decide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When using a fan brush for acrylics, sometimes it is better to use a natural bristle type brush as they tend to hold there shape better with paint on them, often thinner nylon filaments can stick together causing the brush to loose its shape. This however does depend on the viscosity (thickness) of the paint and the effect you’re trying to achieve. Have a play and see what works for you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">hope you found the above information helpful and you can apply it to your next custom painting project. Please book mark this site and come back often as I will add more info as time allows.If you think there is information that should be added to this artical please leave me a comment of email me at...</span><br />
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</div>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-80894330488487985532010-09-07T08:55:00.000+09:002010-09-07T11:03:29.847+09:00Custom Empire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.customempire.blogspot.com/"><img border="0" height="123" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvPfmXezvE2jpQ-x9cBzzrM7pqG87K2fH5atLYzcGUZO_5NJ9WYbaIDuhQ09igiUTE4rmbbx0CzxVZcOA6-U1_USVbArjDQo0YAIPn4El_7ldeY-m8D0f_5fpueA1WzYNgMV9C_1axZZk/s400/Custom+Empire.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">H</span>ey lovely people todays post is actually kinda exciting, well at least it is for me, because I get to tell and share with you something I have wanted to do for a long time... and its the first step of a little dream I've been having, coming into fruission.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have always wanted to get into customizing vinyl toys but didn’t think I had the skills to do it...as you may well know I am a plush maker... paper, fabric thread, needles, stitchy machinery and the like are my friends but a paint brush and paint not so much.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">While I am an arty guy and have picked up some fine art type skills along my way i didnt go to art school, i went to theatre design school. Nobody taught me to draw or paint or sculpt... so what little skill I do have in these areas comes from my own interest and self teachings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So to make this leap and do the thing I really want to do, I have just recently started doing a bunch of research in the endeavor to teach myself... can i do it? Who cares!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The fun is in the learning and the trying. More importantly one of the things I have discovered about myself over the last couple years is what I like doing the most is teaching and helping others... So to put all these things together I have started writing a blog with all the information I find and learn about toy customizing so I can share it with all you peeps out there who are just starting out… and or anyone else that is interested too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">As you know I ve been posting about the toy world and toy customizing related jazz here under the banner Custom Empire, and now i've made it into a blog of its very own... YAY!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I will post the Custom Empire info here as I have been as well as on the Custom Empire blog, so you can read it here or over there depending on what atmosphere you like. They are a little different but kinda the same, due to being writen by yours truley... However here you get all the plush and other ramblings of my brain over there you get the rambling but on one topic, toy customizing, learning and other toy related stuff... choice is yours. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Im totally open to any suggestions or questions about toy customization and anything that might be related to it, I may not be able to give you an answer straight away but asking questions will help me write and research topics that I may not think of... and keep me on target with what people are interested in, or if you have any other ideas let me know. Better still if you are a painter or sculpter or awesome in some other way and want to share some tips, trics, links or what have you, let us know and we'll post it on the blog for everyone. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anyway I hope you like the information I put out and seriously if you ever have any cool tips, tricks, links, or other helpful information flick me a message so we can share it with the people.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: large;">Have a great day folks!</span></div>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-80891787890436357162010-09-05T10:24:00.002+09:002010-09-05T10:24:00.551+09:00In need of good hardware<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;">I</span>n the past few months I’ve had several hardware issues, my laptop is old, going on 5 or 6 years now and things are starting to break. While this is not the end of the world it is important to me, you see, my laptop is my connection to my friends and family in Australia, my access to my arty design businessy stuff, all my correspondence to the companies in china im currently working with, my entertainment and of course my blog and you guys here.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLsdGThYmS3zt2uXVbjGQPbLFMk-o1Wpgra_SV-Ko2vlITJCf9Bh2c0FG9Ct6vK4_vS-uvsLF1WTytv1Gq-o3BmZECMJcRPJtvOS4ru76WCqBPF7Lbf7JJha3v8L_bU1iJQIerxadWJbI/s1600/sony-vaio-e-series-14-laptop-green-close-up-view.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLsdGThYmS3zt2uXVbjGQPbLFMk-o1Wpgra_SV-Ko2vlITJCf9Bh2c0FG9Ct6vK4_vS-uvsLF1WTytv1Gq-o3BmZECMJcRPJtvOS4ru76WCqBPF7Lbf7JJha3v8L_bU1iJQIerxadWJbI/s400/sony-vaio-e-series-14-laptop-green-close-up-view.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So last weekend when my laptop died or the second time this month (i think its part cat and has 9 lives, we're down to 6 more) I asked a friend for help and we went looking for laptops. I looked and looked and besides realizing that computers have become really cheap I also realized I still cant afford one... but that’s a problem easily solved... that’s simply a change in my priorities and spending habits and some patients.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anyway being arty in nature I looked at apple of course because there good computers and their pretty. I've used a Mac before so I know how it goes but I have to say I wasn’t that impressed with what i saw. I don’t know if this is because they didn’t hit the mark for me or im just over exposed to them, so they now seem every day ho hum...im not sure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anyway we shopped on and "oh boy" does everything look the same, now I know Apple have been super popular and they really spun heads mostly with there design (I'll talk OS in a minute) but I came to a really interesting conclusion... these days its hard to buy a crappy computer, now this depends on how much you spend and what you expect but in all honesty if your reasonably level headed you get what you pay for and even then the cheap ones are fairly good.</span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So if you’re like me how do you decide what to buy...well if most people are like me and not a tech head it comes down to a few software requirements which are usually easily met and then basically its all about cost and looks. I mean even the OS isn’t really that important </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">(Oh dear...I can hear the outrage from here... remember people Im not a tech head or expert in any way. Mr layman here!), I currently use windows and if I bought a Mac I would simply learn and get use to the different system, and its true I might decide its better but the reverse is also possible so unless your a die hard fan of one or the other (which i would have to question your motives there) in my eyes it really doesn’t matter.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This conclusion unfortunately doesn’t help me one little bit in my decision... I have no need to belong to the apple is cool club or the windows is the first and the best club or any other this is better than that club I just need some good hardware...</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So on that note I have worked out my soft were requirements and next I decided on a comfortable software/ hardware cost... and so we come to design.</span></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The one laptop that really knocked my socks of was the Sony Vaio E Series </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxktYd03juG9Dfvxux73qzMAtqb4V1hU3rxoEb5eIU8rs6Oc6iQrkt-qG8xNCSVBTyrWxvOXqPYMOwCa4n_joiO1fxwvvicOhBmVoQKjZjIhej45GKPJYsttlaqsk5NoLNuJ3pFZkFC4U/s1600/sony+vaio1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxktYd03juG9Dfvxux73qzMAtqb4V1hU3rxoEb5eIU8rs6Oc6iQrkt-qG8xNCSVBTyrWxvOXqPYMOwCa4n_joiO1fxwvvicOhBmVoQKjZjIhej45GKPJYsttlaqsk5NoLNuJ3pFZkFC4U/s320/sony+vaio1.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But before we look at what makes them unique it’s worth looking at some of the features that they share not only with each other, but with other laptops in the E series – for a start they all come equipped with processors from the 2010 Intel Core family, which combined with up to 4GB DDR3 RAM should be able to cope with whatever you wish to throw at it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLTAa9VYkD75TTtWY2qX8g5fzS-rIKjV0HWXhlm5y2ugSp86kBeMBlR87Nd9VNUaxh-tuSLgmtvRhLWz0ClIHaA6tDNHeBF9qP0nI7RRu9-AQiAuB6JABwh1tFEkcLbmSIWV2H2mJU0X4/s1600/sony-vaio-e-series2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLTAa9VYkD75TTtWY2qX8g5fzS-rIKjV0HWXhlm5y2ugSp86kBeMBlR87Nd9VNUaxh-tuSLgmtvRhLWz0ClIHaA6tDNHeBF9qP0nI7RRu9-AQiAuB6JABwh1tFEkcLbmSIWV2H2mJU0X4/s320/sony-vaio-e-series2.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You’ve also got a pretty wide range of storage options available (up to 1TB) and a more than respectable range of ATI Mobility Radeon 5000 series graphics cards to choose from which means that pretty much whatever model you go for you will be able to browse, play games (although perhaps not the latest examples) and multitask with comfort.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">First up for the the very colorful and customizable Sony Vaio E series laptop computer in the accessories department is the Bluetooth Slider Mouse. The Bluetooth Slider mouse for the E series has customizable skins with lots of different colors nine of them in total. The colors available include Black, White, Green, Gold, Blue, Pink, Orange and Violet. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxtOD1KHvp406XLcMwIXiUQZ7p7VA0IM2G98o4HF_dB0-0UE3JEl0tPPTq7qcELF6H1a5mM6C9kFkKZod7eKVYuomISTZZ5SvO4v1t11wNxXw8hZAM9cWuvOMJK83AMypV50DyEcpBWwQ/s1600/sony-vaio-laser-bluetooth-mouse-group.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxtOD1KHvp406XLcMwIXiUQZ7p7VA0IM2G98o4HF_dB0-0UE3JEl0tPPTq7qcELF6H1a5mM6C9kFkKZod7eKVYuomISTZZ5SvO4v1t11wNxXw8hZAM9cWuvOMJK83AMypV50DyEcpBWwQ/s320/sony-vaio-laser-bluetooth-mouse-group.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">But perhaps the best features on the E series is the three buttons that sit on the slim chassis entitled ‘WEB’, ‘ASSIST’ and ‘VAIO’ each of which provides a one touch shortcut to something that will, at some point, be useful to you!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFb2J6z87mkSNTvEQ4n9dGU83dC71zgVmHy7XD6mHAtRW0bXyHvbG7gt5vUsY_hL0B2NFDJqWAZ5CMCFdNJ6AYYtasoKdf4A9O79BKC0c_6psPNtT9vmbqczMQDVEiu7uACndiq_GXPDM/s1600/sony-vaio-e-series-14-laptop-blue-close-up-view.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFb2J6z87mkSNTvEQ4n9dGU83dC71zgVmHy7XD6mHAtRW0bXyHvbG7gt5vUsY_hL0B2NFDJqWAZ5CMCFdNJ6AYYtasoKdf4A9O79BKC0c_6psPNtT9vmbqczMQDVEiu7uACndiq_GXPDM/s320/sony-vaio-e-series-14-laptop-blue-close-up-view.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I’ll start with perhaps the best of the three: ‘WEB’. This allows you to start browsing the internet without booting up your PC, meaning you can get online quickly which is ideal when you just need to nip on to check and email or look something up, and the fact that it supports multi-tabbed and split browsing should make it even easier to use. Obviously it’s a pain if you then have to boot up your PC anyway, but that’s a small sacrifice!</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Secondly there’s the ‘ASSIST’ button, which is essentially a fast track to the VAIO care which should help you to maintain, diagnose and ultimately fix your VAIO if you get yourself in need of help!</span> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmzMGhDXpa4Ha6fyc4zqrvSNJvOhqWkzneZ177bHGgnJTlFBRLuLuiZi1QE3ADbFGFeHIhHDJIeQuXhBc8RhVzsaHDS44YOhP0VEt3szRAgLSwIHwtlQv3-Bdh3wIb829oU3dx7HsI3YQ/s400/sony-vaio-e-series-vpc-ea1s1e-w-p_577742vb.png" width="400" /></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">How about all that computer talk...did I bore you to death? So after all that here is my problem... what colour should I buy? Im tossing up between the sleek and stylish White and the fun and exciting vibrant blue...</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Which do you like?</span></div></div>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-7535402516193098472010-09-03T09:54:00.000+09:002010-09-03T09:54:16.824+09:00Masking in practice<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCRPB8Rml0UCDOvLvDZiFRgP2w83u4dbrHmtLy08bbUXe8x9dukKQ4zcpfvG3cAgxvAaQ365lecioRK-WinADSDwJNTyED1ADbebP9M2Ty0-q2l8HK-hxJLryo_1xAUtjTWiIdomFSV0/s1600/Custom+Empire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="123" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCRPB8Rml0UCDOvLvDZiFRgP2w83u4dbrHmtLy08bbUXe8x9dukKQ4zcpfvG3cAgxvAaQ365lecioRK-WinADSDwJNTyED1ADbebP9M2Ty0-q2l8HK-hxJLryo_1xAUtjTWiIdomFSV0/s400/Custom+Empire.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"So you wrote a post on masking" I hear you say... "Writing is the easy part but can you actually do it?" and the answer is yes! Not amazingly but not to bad either ;)</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi95Bogb62R9-nex_vsA57Mlg1TU4Y_v5twTH6Dx_D6AhhC-Zwee9NjMyyRsisKUgDbRkTLOU33XG8ntb1JGVk3dTgaWRuIFpEQnjiy9bzWlin2aojDtiuz2OOMliyO1W1oIBpEqd4wqwQ/s1600/first+cstom+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi95Bogb62R9-nex_vsA57Mlg1TU4Y_v5twTH6Dx_D6AhhC-Zwee9NjMyyRsisKUgDbRkTLOU33XG8ntb1JGVk3dTgaWRuIFpEQnjiy9bzWlin2aojDtiuz2OOMliyO1W1oIBpEqd4wqwQ/s320/first+cstom+2.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So here are a few work in progress shots of my very first customized vinyl toy....and a little information on how he is being made....</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This guy has been painted with a blend technique with Tamiya Color and then I used masking to do the stencil type design on his head... </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To do the design on his head I covered it with painters masking and drew the design on free hand.</span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirBbCQmzoSv47HVydrfKn0TVIOiwjWKSUs9gsOoM5sbzMV2dtrr3E852coAdok02PRI_9ib9FU4Y6wzNTa55hNhxuxNXWQD5bMQEOlfQwCK7i7KDZc8OEsRw7HRCCRycw5N7t5D5B5v7k/s1600/first+custom1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirBbCQmzoSv47HVydrfKn0TVIOiwjWKSUs9gsOoM5sbzMV2dtrr3E852coAdok02PRI_9ib9FU4Y6wzNTa55hNhxuxNXWQD5bMQEOlfQwCK7i7KDZc8OEsRw7HRCCRycw5N7t5D5B5v7k/s320/first+custom1.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Note*</span> learn from my mistakes!</span></div><ul><li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Try not to overlap your masking tape in one place creating multiple layers. why? because if you are drawing the design on the tape and then cutting it out with a scalpel you will have to cut through too many layers.. This means you need to push very hard and end up cutting the vinyl this is difficult to fix. One or two layers of tape is fine, if you find its unavoidable to have multiple layers, cut slowly and carefully.</span></li>
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<ul><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When cutting the design out try not to push to hard... so as to avoid cutting the vinyl. same as the above but its important!</span></li>
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<ul><li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Think carefully before you remove the tape once the tape has been removed it is very difficult almost impossible to re-mask it in the same place.... if it is possible it will take you a millennium to do it! After I removed the tape i thought how cool would it be t have an outline on the design. I could have done this with masking... now i have to do it free hand(AHH!!) or try to remask </span></li>
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<ul><li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Because I drew the design for this guy free hand it isnt very eve but for my first guy, I'm ok with that... If you want you design to be symmetrical, try drawing you design on some card or paper first then cut it out and use it for a reference to draw around.</span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"> This guy i a work in progress so I will keep you updated as I add to him and how I go about doing so.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.customempire.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">www.customempire.blogspot.com</span></a></div>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-36907901891544430942010-09-03T09:05:00.000+09:002010-09-03T09:05:43.403+09:00Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><object height="344" style="background-image: url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/ZWmrfgj0MZI/hqdefault.jpg); clear: right; float: right;" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZWmrfgj0MZI?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZWmrfgj0MZI?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">A</span></strong>n Awesome song from an old favorate band Massive Attack...yes thats right im gving Portishead a break!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I noticed the other day some of my youtube vids dont work... So sorry about that folks. If the vids dont play dont forget that you can click on the songs that come up as a menu, if they're by the groups I like they are all good ;P</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">Enjoy!</span> I hope you have a rockin day!</span>Yukihirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13582797111427033869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1947900507189172869.post-80752993585924545262010-09-01T13:30:00.002+09:002010-09-01T13:30:00.289+09:00Jon Burgerman doodling at ustwo™ London<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">H</span>ere is a very cool artist, Jon Burgerman doing a bit of doodling, I wish he could come and doodle on my walls I have to say I think his art is fantastic and Im so impressed at how easy he makes it look.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: orange;">You can check out his work on his wesite</span> </span><a href="http://www.jonburgerman.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://www.jonburgerman.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> <span style="color: orange;">for thoes of you who are fans there is a shop too </span></span><a href="http://www.burgerplex.com/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">http://www.burgerplex.com/</span></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Jon not ony does canvas work but also 3D work like vinyl toys and a whole range of different products from soft furnashings to cool colouring in(DIY) wall paper, phone covers, t-shirts and more... Well worth checking out!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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