Is this really a progress update?????

Heh, my last two reblogs both had a feathery theme… so now for something completely different!

Tentacles! So my previous set of lekku work best when worn SWTOR style. But with Rachi I need to wear them slightly further forward. It causes more folds on the underside than I want but I could do some careful surgery I could quite quickly remove them of make them really adorably like wee fat rolls. I will do so later. I have finally got some more paint to mix to shade and also do more permanent markings (the liquiset paint came off in the rain!)

But I am also nearing completion of my next set and they are finally starting to look like they grew out of the head form.

They started off looking like some mutant whole chicken ready for roasting, if you bred your chicken to have bendy legs 1m long….

Then a very pimply uneven scarred set of things growing from the desk. And finally now I have some skin texture, but I would like to make the face and ends a little smoother.

So next bit of progress…. SINUS INFECTION HAS BEEN BANISHED!!!!!!!!!! *pretend flail because there is too much RA activity to really* By the power of Roxy no less 😉 Roxithromycin anyway. This means being able to wear these lekku! So I’m going to be working on refitting a few costume elements for both costumes 🙂

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jtotheizzoe:

Yes, unfortunately the Velociraptor mongoliensis is more like a very aggressive roadrunner than a man-eating murder machine. But those aren’t the ‘raptors from the movies.

The “velociraptors” of Jurassic Park fame are actually Deinonychus, a (slightly) taller, equally roadrunnerish combination of tail and sickle-shaped toe claw. D-nikes (I made that name up) were not huge, but that claw could easily split you open like a bag of spaghetti. 

There’s no real confirmation that they were “clever girls” or hunted in packs, and the insistence of JP’s directors on not adding feathers to these almost-certainly feathered death-chickens is kind of like a claw-toed slap in the face to paleontology.

Just like the great T. rex (which we talked about last week), our image of these dinos changes with new science, and will continue to change. Our fiction needs to change with them.

(Dino images via Colin Douglas Howell on Wikipedia)

Death-chickens! Thoughts on Horner’s ideas about taking a regular chicken and turning it in to a real death chicken?

For those who haven’t yet seen: Building a dino from a chicken

Dark am I, yet comely, o ye daughters ov jerusalem: ericainchoate: anarcheluxemburg: No one better give me shit like “I…

Dark am I, yet comely, o ye daughters ov jerusalem: ericainchoate: anarcheluxemburg: No one better give me shit like “I…

teaandbrimstone:

ericainchoate:

anarcheluxemburg:

No one better give me shit like “I don’t want wings” like, no fuck you.

Wings would be so rad and ecologically friendly. They don’t use fossil fuels, they’re not cars, and best of all they’re fucking attached to you ALL THE TIME. You can just be like…

I would have cicada wings. My back muscles would be fucking ripped and if I ever needed anyone to shut the fuck up somewhere near my person I could just vibrate them loud enough yo drown them out.

“Like, I get that maori have it bad but if you look at the statistics, cr-“

“BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ”

“… like I was saying the crime statistics show-“

“BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZP”

“The-“

“BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ”

I’d like swan wings. Apparently they can break a human arm. I’d just casually stretch them out every so often. Yeah grooming would be a pain and I’d have to put up with angel jokes but hey, those wings, remember what they can do.

shaevizlarules:

Darth Tykhi in her Revan Robes 🙂 They do differ a little from the Cinematic but hey, that’s not really surprising knowing even a skerrick about 3D models and such 🙂

And yes, I do want a set for myself in real life 😉

For Sylvie 🙂

Also it took me a while to get used to the way lekku are represented in this game. They do though feel quite real (little rolls at the base, and they look weighty). Until you step in a lift and head down and your lekku fold in half… 

tittybasket:

I had never noticed that sweet fuckin’ bodice/evil girdle/whatever before, fuck it’s awesome

I bought the set for my Sith Inq 🙂 It’s also used on *spoiler* in the game. I can get you some sweet screencaps if you like? She is currently on makeb in this set 🙂 I really wanna make this from the last of my leather. Also in game it looks like nipple rings. The skirt also has nice big rings as well.

Want me to go a capping? I may also manage to pull up some Thana Vesh caps or see if I can spend some credits on Than’s chestpiece 🙂 Her’s is the other in game armour I want 🙂

jtotheizzoe:

Eta Aquarid meteors over New Zealand this week, photographed by Stephen Voss over the course of 90 minutes.

Every spring, Earth crosses the orbital trail of Halley’s Comet. While we’ll have to wait until 2061 to see the actual comet again (I am old enough to remember seeing it back in 1986, though, so nah!), each year we get a fresh sprinkling of comet tail dust into our atmosphere at 150,000 mph. As Earth whips through, the debris appears to radiate out from the constellation Aquarius, which is evident in the photo above.

It’s a coincidence, but a beautiful one. Read more about the Eta Aquarids at EarthSky and Bad Astronomy.

Sadly I live in Auckland and it is currently… being Auckland- rain rain and more rain.

Stunning images.

And yes, I saw Halley’s comet back in 86 as well 🙂

A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, “They are afraid women will laugh at them.” When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, “We’re afraid of being killed.

Mary Dickson

(lots of commentary snipped so look at the original for all the other heartbreaking comments)

I’ve reblogged this quote before, I think. But reblogging now for the amazing commentary.

I was having a discussion with my father and brother the other day. We were talking about receiving threats of rape or violence via the internet. Their whole argument was “just ignore it and walk away from your computer”. Amazing solution. Can’t believe I never thought of that. It’s so clever because we all know that when you leave your keyboard the threat of violence disappears. 

Urgh. 

(via lavenderlabia)

Reblogging for commentary.

(via tittybasket)

Reblogging for this comment in particular. Can’t add more to this.

karenhealey:

jennifergearing:

trcunning:

pippinstewardofgondor:

inebriatedpony:

Science!

what the fuck is this science bullshit

gif 1, explosive polymerization of p Nitro Aniline Video

gif 2, Sodium Polyacrylate mixed with water Video

gif 3, Sodium Acetate Video

gif 4, the smoke is vaporized wax, can still catch fire and travels back to the wick Video

gif 5, Ping Pong balls + Liquid Nitrogen in a trash can Video

gif 6, electrical treeing

gif 7, heating Mercury Thiocyanate

gif 8, ferrofluid sculpture Video

gif 9, flammable gas lit in a glass jar Video

GO HOME SCIENCE U R DRUNK.

SCIENCE CAN TOTALLY DRIVE OKAY. GIVE SCIENCE THE KEYS.

Reblogging for the Science being explained- Science is cool but knowing wtf is going on is even cooler. If I am well enough eventually the post grad diploma I want is in science communications.

I think it’s super important that each field of science still retains its own language but that there a means for communicating that to those outside. Just like translators.

eriha:

neimhaille:

A few solo photos taken by Rob and Matt respectively while getting some approval shots done as well as “fans with local landmarks”.

The photo album for everyone involved is over here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattandkristy/sets/72157633282356457/with/8663797193/

Also photo of me grinning ear to ear over a flattened TK may not make it to the set 😉

Such a fun day even if we did have to dodge the rain! And my face was starting to match the paint due to pressure.

Paint is NZ Airbrushed Tattoo Ink in white mixed in a base of a tiny amount of what and heaps of pigment and alcohol then mixed and poured into a low dish. It needed stirring as it started to thicken as first the pink then blue pigments rose and crusted on the surface.I do have enough for another application but want to match a full bottle asap for a few events coming up.
Sending in submittal in the morning with mouse and table top. Expecting informal but I don’t mind. Also expecting a few things to adjust.

Wow Rachi Sitra!! I love her design *.*

Cool cosplay

Thank you 🙂 I just got her approved by the Rebel Legion and I’m super happy to say as formal/canon 🙂

Hopefully this link will take you to my profile.

Very lucky I made a second hilt for Tykhi (it’s a smaller hilt but I think it works). There is room for a blade and the light still works, which is amazing. My soldering is a bit… clumpy. 

Sadly finding drivers for the syperbright LEDS is close to impossible in NZ (I only know people who have imported the things) but I have enough other components now to actually attempt the blade type I really really have wanted all along.

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Star Wars: The Old Republic | Developer Blogs

Star Wars: The Old Republic | Developer Blogs

bamfbugboy:

kotorswtor:

Browse some of the new items in the Vice Commandant’s Contraband Pack live in Game Update 2.0.1!

*keymashes at the Bastila, Jolee, KotOR-era Sith armor*

Guys, KotOR: the Musical is going to be a for-reals thing now. It has to be!

SCREAMS

THANA VESH

RED BLADE

TROUBLEMAKER

HAHHAHAHAALKFSD:FJ

THANA!!!! and BASTILA!!!!! So sad I had to drop back to FtP but I can hopefully save enough credits for thes on the GTN eventually… sigh. I knew I wasn’t the only one who loved Thana’s gear though 😉