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I waited to blog this since I know most of you are last minute folks, but this contest looks easy to do and fun. Imagine the robot above will be a pain to do, it's a lot of space, so the contest actually is for the bottom robot (the legs) all you have to do is customize that one, and you're in! Get to it. It's due very soon. MARCH 6. Here's the microsite: giantrobotshin.com
1. Download the blank...
I waited to blog this since I know most of you are last minute folks, but this contest looks easy to do and fun. Imagine the robot above will be a pain to do, it’s a lot of space, so the contest actually is for the bottom robot (the legs) all you have to do is customize that one, and you’re in! Get to it. It’s due very soon. MARCH 6. Here’s the microsite: giantrobotshin.com 1. Download the blank template.2. Customize the template with your own designs — draw, paint, use photoshop — be creative!3. Scan or color copy your customized template and save it to upload later.4. Construct your figure and take a photo of the completed piece.5. By March 6, upload your scanned template and image of the completed figure using the link below.6. Upload.7. Winners will be announced on the site by March 11th. Prizes Grand PrizeRoundtrip airfare to Los Angeles, CA to attend the Interactive Paper Art show at the Scion Gallery in Culver City on April 11thHotel accommodations for 3 days and 2 nights, April 10th – 12thTransportation to and from the airport, hotel and art showInclusion of the winning entry in the art show, as well as distribution of the template to all attendeesMeeting of the Master of Paper Art himself, Shin Tanaka, at the art show$500 checkGiant Robot prize package Viewers Choice AwardsFeature on the websiteGiant Robot magazine subscriptionGiant Robot T-shirt and sticker packet,$50 gift certificate to the Giant Robot storesScion backpack THE RULES
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I can play pool, not with the best of them. Any pool veterans out there? My bridge probably stinks, right? I've been trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do. An open bridge? Is that better? Pool is fun, it uses physics and math, and it's a perfect short attention span game. It's easy to try and play. Sometimes, you'll amaze yourself at how insane of a shot you can make.
Brian Flynn of Super 7....
I can play pool, not with the best of them. Any pool veterans out there? My bridge probably stinks, right? I’ve been trying to figure out what I’m supposed to do. An open bridge? Is that better? Pool is fun, it uses physics and math, and it’s a perfect short attention span game. It’s easy to try and play. Sometimes, you’ll amaze yourself at how insane of a shot you can make. Brian Flynn of Super 7. I’m not sure what the 4 and 3 mean. 7? Super 7? If it were me, I’d opt for a 5 and 2 which would look perfectly dorky and innocent. Ah ha. Swiss Chard done Ohitashi style. Yes, I can make this and it comes out good. I’ll practice this a little more and then maybe it’ll be a recipe in the mag. Maybe. You’d be surprised, I think I mentioned somewhere that blooms might last two weeks, but they seem to be going a little longer! Here’s those back posts if you’re into cherry blossoms. cherry blossoms at night and old school blossoms, and many cherry blossom photos. If you want check out my flickr cherry blossom folder which includes the Uglycon billboard.
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Last week me and a few boys from my company,Revolution Talent Management, headed up to Sichuan last week to build houses for the quake victims. This was something I’ve wanted to do since the earthquake and I finally got my chance. Habitat for Humanity is an organization started back in 1976 with an aim of helping build homes for the impoverished around the world. As we all know more than 70,000 lost their lives in the quake and millions became homeless. Habitat aims to build over 700 homes for families who lost their homes to the quake. We went to the area known as Xiao Yu Dong two hours outside of Chengdu.Our first stop was to see the Xiao Yu Dong bridge. This bridge was the only way out of the Xiao Yu Dong area. When the quake hit, this bridge went down. Luckily no one was on it but it’s collapse also closed off the only route into Xiao Yu Dong by car making it impossible to drive in ambulances. So the injured had to be carried one by one throught the fast running waist high river to get them to the other side and off to hospitals in Chengdu. That’s real heroism.We then went to visit the temporary housing shelters where most of the homeless have been put up by the government. Although conditions are good and clean. Each family only gets a 20sqm(200sqft) room. So many are eager to rebuild and move out.An outdoor dining room. Although these temporary structures are probably not the best to live in, I found them architecturally interesting and beautiful.Some have even built their own temporary houses out of scrap wood and materials just so they have a place to store their belongings. It’s interesting to note that although conditions are simple, eveyone has a tv and sattelite dishes. These were provided by the govenrment so they could watch the Olympics.We then went to a farmers house to have lunch. HIs new Habitat house was being built just next door but in the meantime he built his own temporary house because the govenrment provided ones just couldn’t hold all his stuff! His wife prepared an amazing feast for us made up of food fresh from their farm. In fact I actually saw the veggies being picked and brought straight to the kitchen and the chicken pens were right next to our table. Probably the best and healthiest meal I’ve had in a long time. Organic’s got nothing on this. After lunch we headed over to our building site to get to work. The houses are actually quite simple. They were designed for Habitat by the Sichuan University Architecture department. They are timber framed houses made of light but sturdy materials. The advantage of a wood frame is that it is much more resiliant to the typical concrete slab construction that was used before. In concrete construction, all the structural connections are fixed making it a rigid structure so when the earthquake hit...
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