Well, if this isn't a bolt out of the blue...
About a year and a half ago, I drew this mask.
("Ooh!")
After recently reading bonesiii's blog entry Vector Art In Powerpoint: Quality, Inexpensive, Easy with great interest, I felt inspired to try my hand at transforming my sketch into a professional-quality image.
I wasn't content to use Powerpoint exclusively. For one thing, the Office gradient tool is extremely limited in functionality. Since I own a copy of PhotoShop Elements 2.0
Apocalyptica is a well-known Finnish band that presently comprises three cellists: Eicca Toppinen, Perttu Kivilaakso, and Paavo Lötjönen. I'm not such a huge fan of their earlier, cello-only albums; while there's something to be said for purism, it's also a sure-fire way to retain a fringe following and not much else. For instance, one of their early albums, Apocalyptica Plays Metallica by Four Cellos, is interesting to me mainly as a musical experiment; while it's a pretty well-done interpretat
HAY GUISE ITS BCII NO IM NOT DEAD BUT I CAME BY TO SAY HI AND A BIG I LOVE YOU TO EVERYBODY I USED TO CHILL WITH IN HERE BACK WHEN BIONICLE WAS BIG AND COMPLEX AND SOMETIMES MADE NO SENSE BUT WAS AWESOME LIKE NOTHING ELSE EVER WAS OR WILL BE AND INSPIRED US TO MAKE MOCS AND STORIES AND ALL KINDS OF WONDERFUL STUFF OUT OF THE AMAZING FABRIC OF OUR FERTILE IMAGINATIONS THAT WE NURTURED WITH OUR UNHESITATING LOVE AND PASSION AND ENTHUSIASM FOR COOL STUFF AND WE SHARED IT ALL HERE AND FELT LIKE A FA
Building Contest: Golden Oldies! ♪♫
Hello, BZPower! Yes, this is a building contest! Yes, there are cool prizes! No, you do not necessarily have to be someone who owns at building like Darth Vader to win!
Guidelines:
The idea is to build something, anything, that is directly inspired by a song which, in your honest, heartfelt opinion, fits the definition of a "golden oldie." So not a song from the '00s, not a song from the '90s, but, I have arbitrarily decided, any song from before 199
It's the Phantoka commercial song, Gravity Hurts. None of the previous songs officially linked with Bionicle have been close to this good, in my opinion. I've probably listened to this song twenty times in two days. It's a powerful anthem, I think, with a powerful message, if you know how to listen. And, boy, those vocals are really something, not to mention the artistry on drums, keyboard and guitar.
Click to listen - right click and Save as to download
Tension is rising
Gravity hurts
2012 This place is still around? Awesome. Hi, guys. What's up? Haven't been around here in awhile. So much going on, it's like real life has become my actual life, hahaha. But no, I actually thought I would just check in, drop by, say hi, and add a few words to the conversation regarding life and the grand meaning of everything. You know. That conversation. OK, well, put it this way: I started writing this in my head at 3 a.m. and decided I would actually sit down and do it. So here I
The #1 reason I bought it on DVD: Emile Hirsch plays the title role. He also played the lead role of Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild, one of my all-time favourite films. These shots are from the respective movies' "epiphany" sequences, where the characters come to the end of their journeys -- a literal end in the case of the latter.
Speed: I don't know why I'm doing it anymore.
Racer X: You don't climb into a T-180 to be a driver -- you do it because you're driven.
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Royalton:
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30.01.2010
I came up with this 13-sided shape today. It's very strong; when it's complete, you'll be able to throw it around and not have it bend out of shape at all.
I'm picturing a purple-and-black flying saucer.
01.02.2010
18.02.2010
I've already spent a small fortune (in relative terms) on parts for this. As you can see, more parts are still needed.
Why the investment of money into a project like this? There is o
Alien Tripod Exterminator
Scorpio
Also the saucer pod Sagittarius, which has been covered in a previous entry and doesn't yet have a current picture.
Model Expo 2011 is on April 15th to 17th at the Helsinki Fair Center. I look forward to it!
Bio:
Toa Amir wields the elemental power of Love. Centuries ago, as an avatar of divine will, he saved the world of Spherus Magna from the ancient and implacable Archons. Now fallen to the state of mortal man, he serves as best he can in the complicated center of global politics, under the planetary High Council, where pressures abound on all sides. Can he hold his own in the midst of a growing chaos? And will he ever find his way back to himself? The fate of Spherus Magna may well depend on th
A year ago today, I was a fresh reserve officer-in-training at the reserve officer school in Hamina, a harbour town with a rich military tradition and a climate from Hades. I spent my 21st birthday on the garrison. Fuuuuun.
Back in Canada two years ago, on my 20th birthday, I was supposed to go out for dinner with my cousin and two of my fave bros. I was too depressed to make it and most likely cried myself to sleep.
Tomorrow, I turn 22. Hopes are high as I plan to spend the weekend actual
Big news. Really big news.
My girlfriend and I got engaged.
I proposed on the 24th and we celebrated on the 31st with a Finnish-style engagement party.
We both got rings.
A matching pair.
14k gold.
9 grams of gold for $220 Canadian.
That's a screaming deal, folks.
But that's beside the point.
I. AM. ENGAGED.
TO. MY. AWESOME. GIRLFRIEND.
YES!
-BC
In all the infinite vastness of space, there is only one
Tuan Taurëo.
Where she has been, where she is going;
these are mysteries.
For in this moment it is enough
to feel the wash of intergalactic particles on her silver skin,
each one carrying its own unique flavour and a tale too long for words.
She is content to observe the motions of the heavenly bodies in their eternal spiraling dance;
they are titans, but they are also her friends.
The song they sing is in her blood.
There is no
Golden Oldies! ♪♫ Winners
At last, the judges have completed their labyrinthine deliberations. The wait is over, the suspense shall stretch no further. Here are the three awesome winners:
First
Second
Third
A big thank-you from me to the assisting judges, Arpy and Krahka.
A warm round of applause goes out to all our lovely contestants. Disty, Primus, Veq, Ultimate Kardas, Christo1096-TheIceBreaker, and {Zaxvo} - thank you, thank you so much f
within my being
no boundaries
a galaxy
or a speck of dust
can you see me
can you face yourself
forgive the hypocrisy
make it all
right again
break what you thought
and let it be, 'cause
you can't control a thing
resist, hold back, flee
back to the dark
in your imagined self
rejected and alone
want to die from the pain
is that who you really are
or is there something more
something real
something worth being born
and living for
your body's going to rot
and you'll leave it b
Lately, I've been getting an inordinate amount of non-random weirdness appearing where there should be just pure, normal randomness. I look at the clock and it's 2:22 or 4:44 or 11:11. My car's tripmeter reads 888. I see three or four license plates in a row with letters or numbers in the form XYX. It just goes on and on. And a couple of days ago, my BZPower inbox had three new messages (I hardly ever get more than one; two is very rare) -- for a total of 333. Not only that, but my sent folder h
Had my first Finnish Language class today. We read an article titled "The Moklofs are Coming - Are You Ready?" from a business magazine. All in Finnish, of course. The article was based on The MeWe Generation, which dubs today's typical youth Moklofs (Mobile Kids with Lots of Friends). The MeWe generation is defined as youth born after 1984. Here's the synopsis, with my own added emphases:
This is how savvy employers, politicians, and marketers see you and me. Heck, they're right and you k
I just hosted my going-away party. Life is hectic, mad scary, and oh so very, very sweet. The Lego collection is just about packed up and will be gone tomorrow. I hope it finds its way to some kids who will appreciate it and get something out of it. I'm suddenly faced with an unexpected choice: should I go ahead with the wild hobo adventure as planned, or opt for the wild hippie adventure instead? Decisions, decisions...
Yeah, they're technically Agori, if you're into taxonomy. I just think of them as Matoran.
I figured out this new way to make use of the Hordika upper arm as a torso. Also, the spikes on the arms turned out well.
Simple but cute. Uses the same torso construction as the original BC-Matoran. Headgear rather reminiscent of the psychic sisterhood in the movie Dune.
No, I'm not reciting the Gettysburg Address, although it is among the finest speeches ever made and one that every American ought to learn.
I'm talking about the attack sustained four years ago by this noble international institution. For those of us who were here at the time, the weeks that followed were marked by frustration. The forums' existence was suspended indefinitely. We had to find other things to do with the time that we had, until then, devoted to activities on this site.
I spe
