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Minecraft Related Things

Wed, 08 May 2013 23:48:05 -0400

Moving Minecraft stuff over to: http://ancientshores.tumblr.com/

nedhepburn: Ahmed, 7, Syria.

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:21:55 -0400

nedhepburn:

Ahmed, 7, Syria.

Been working on a graveyard, making epitaphs. Going to be hard...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:39:00 -0500

Been working on a graveyard, making epitaphs. Going to be hard to top this one…

New bird’s eye view of capitol.

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:42:57 -0500

New bird’s eye view of capitol.

I have been wanting to build a sailing ship for quite a while...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:55:00 -0500

I have been wanting to build a sailing ship for quite a while and finally started on it. After deciding I would base it off an actual ship I sat there for a while trying to think of which one I wanted to build. Then it hit me, the Cutty Sark. I had built a model of it as a kid, one of the few models I ever built, and spent a ridiculous amount of time painting it. I don’t think I ever finished making it, so I felt this was a chance to.

I tried to make it as close to scale and accuracy as possible. I could find no photos or information on the interior so I took some liberties, but it’s your standard fare of cannons, ship’s magazine, mess hall, barracks. I will note that each mast has 1 less sail than the actual Cutty Sark. I am also debating on working on it more to try to add more of the rigging but do not want to make it a jumbled mess of fence ‘rope’.

“What’s so special about this ship?” you might ask. Just think of it as the Ferrari of it’s kind. The Cutty Sark was British tea clipper built in 1869. It is one of the last tea clippers to be constructed and also one of the fastest clippers ever to be built. It’s speed can best be understood by an entry a wool clipper crewman made in 1879:

“One day we sighted a vessel, a mere speck on the horizon, astern of us, and the way she came into view it was evident she was travelling much faster than ourselves. ‘Bringing the wind up with her’ was remarked on board, and that seemed the only feasible conclusion to arrive at and account for the manner in which she overhauled us. In a few hours she was alongside us, and proved to be the famous British clipper Cutty Sark, one of the fastest ships afloat. She passed us going two feet to our one, and in a short time was hull down ahead of us.”

http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/16ro0s/cutty_sark_clipper_ship/

The ship was finally lifted out of the crash site.

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:50:00 -0500

The ship was finally lifted out of the crash site.

"Politics and The Internet" or "No One Cares About Your Stupid Political Opinions So Post Some Cat Photos or Fuck Off"

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:32:00 -0500

I have this morbid habit of reading the comments section of any page I’m on. The particularly bad ones are on news and video game sites. It never ceases to amaze me how many times the ‘conversation’ going on in the comment section turns towards the political. Can we like, together, as a collective race in this digital environment to make some Geneva conventions or something, making this “Law 1”; To not see a political side to everything under the sun and comment about it.

So I am on Amazon today, looking on the deals page when I scroll past the customer discussion threads and see one about gun violence and one about minimum wage. There is a place for these discussions, in fact there are many places on the internet to talk about politics (I would assume numbering in the millions). A news article about scientists detecting intergalactic planets is not one of them. A Youtube video of a dancing cat is not one of them. A retail site like Amazon is not one of them.

(Note: I let the top topic slide simply because it got bonus points for having a completely ridiculous name,)

“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:34:37 -0500

“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

“Aw that’s cute, they think they know how to make...

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:06:33 -0500

“Aw that’s cute, they think they know how to make weapons.”

Caught this on some blog today, not sure if training to be a...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:54:42 -0500

Caught this on some blog today, not sure if training to be a future Navy Seal or just slacking off.

So Tumblr was down earlier today and I got bored, I had several...

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 04:00:51 -0400

So Tumblr was down earlier today and I got bored, I had several Skype people telling me to check out Reddit. I had been on before and looked around but just didn’t get it. So I figured “Hey, I’ll just upload some goofy pic of one of my builds.”

1st post on Reddit, made it to #1 in the Minecraft section. I think I am officially addicted.

Hexavalent chromium is a group of chemical compounds containing...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:45:00 -0400

Hexavalent chromium is a group of chemical compounds containing the element chromium that is odorless and tasteless. It is used in the production of stainless steel, textile dyes, wood preservation, leather tanning, and a variety of other applications. Hexavalent chromium is a probable carcinogen and was brought to national attention when it was found in the drinking water supply of the southern California town of Hinkley, and the subsequent involvement of Erin Brockovich.

"People say I’m a terrible liar, but that’s just because I’m so awesome at being a..."

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:45:58 -0400

“People say I’m a terrible liar, but that’s just because I’m so awesome at being a Secret Agent/Astronaut.”

- Leponder

Saturday Skeleton just don’t care.

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:41:47 -0400

Saturday Skeleton just don’t care.

prostheticknowledge: IRIS by HYBE Interactive installation is...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:31:41 -0400

prostheticknowledge:

IRIS by HYBE

Interactive installation is grid of transparent LEDs which display halftone and circular patterns whose display can emulate it’s viewers.

A week ago, I covered a New Media exhibition in Seoul called ‘The Da Vinci Ideas Exhibition’ and was intrigued by this piece, hoping there would be a video of it. Well, the brilliant Creative Applications discovered it, which you can watch in the embed below:

Created by Korena collective HYBE, IRIS is a media canvas with matrix of conventional information display technology, that is a monochrome LCD.Through the phased opening and closing of circular black liquid crystal, IRIS can create various patterns and control the amount (size) of passing lights.

More Info and images can be found at Creative Applications here

Photo

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:28:40 -0400

Branberg mountain and Pale Wolf Inn viewed from the town of...

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:29:00 -0400

Branberg mountain and Pale Wolf Inn viewed from the town of Hircine. It’s my little Skyrim inspired NPC town (Hircine is the Daedric prince of the hunt in Elder Scrolls). No matter where I work I keep coming back to this area and adding little things. Out of frame to the right is Hircine’s Watch.

I have been wanting to do a lodge on the outskirts for a while. It was originally going to be much smaller and abandoned but once I started working on it I decided to make it part of the city. I made a little gravel path leading to it and dropped all the town protections on it so mobs would spawn in and around it. Set up some sentry NPCs to walking around and beat mobs up.

I have to say this area is in fierce competition with the City Zoo as my favorite thing I’ve made so far.

Test driving new IPA (Taken with Instagram)

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:21:03 -0400

Test driving new IPA (Taken with Instagram)

So I had DS9 on in the background and working on something when...

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:04:00 -0400

So I had DS9 on in the background and working on something when in the show this rebel leader guy comes on and starts talking. I immediately recognized the voice and look over to see a young ass Jonathan Banks, playing pretty much a Space-Mike.

Episode is called ‘Battle Lines’ if you’re interested.

One of our admins, Kenstructor, did a competition a while back...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:37:00 -0400

Rendered shot

Rear shot at night

Aerial shot with prison to right and cannon to left

One of our admins, Kenstructor, did a competition a while back for people to build ‘defenses’, so I got the idea for this big-ass cannon.