You may or may not have wondered what exactly I do at my job. If you have not, I forgive you and won't hold it against any of you. Honestly. If you -have-, here's a simple explaination: I'm a builder. I do building. So, what do we build? This blog entry will be dedicated to one of them. The LongNow Commission was very unique. The premise is there is a foundation setting up a 10,000 year clock in the Rockies. The model we had to build came from a component of this clock, a tooled out prototyp
Sup Internet. It's Swert. So I went to work in my usual timeslot today... tons of LEGO building, gluing and making things look pretty for clients... again. And didn't finish until 7:30 Pacific. So yeah, I'm tired and it's my dad's birthday. But all is well, I'm just going to relax now and enjoy the rest of my wee- wait, I have to work two more days?! ... Challenge accepted.
... Would be fun. Too bad I'm only sitting here and sorting parts. Then emailing mosaics to co-workers. And on top of that? Repairing models. Such is life.
This is my list of games I have dominated and/or completed as of today (March 22nd, 2011). Bold indicates I have 100% completed it. The list also includes PC games I own.
LEGO Star Wars (PC)
LEGO Star Wars II (PC)
BIONICLE Heroes (360)
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (360)
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Saga (360)
LEGO Batman (360)
LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 (360) (Also 100% Achievements)
LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (360) (~20% completed)
LEGO Pirates of the Carribean (360
Whew! Okay, so... for the past 6 weeks or so, I've been swamped at work. I've had to build 10 large skyscrapers (4 to 9 feet in height, pure Lego no gluing) plus set up for another show in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (which we handled, the client loved it, they want more work, yay us). This is literally the first night I've had where the next day I get to do absolutely nothing. I'm going to be seeing Man of Steel in the morning. NO SPOILERS KTHX. (Cue the several "HE'S FROM KRYPTON!", "HE'S CLARK
Well, that was a rush. We just completed Skull Week on BS01's Facebook and Twitter accounts. We posted our first wave of reviews of the 2015 Summer Sets (Wave 2) by Dorek, with a slightly modified system. We gained some feedback over the last few months while reviewing the first wave of sets, and took them all to heart. Now I think we are truly ready for the future of BIONICLE. In addition to that, we also gave away a couple of summer sets. We hope to do so again in the future. In the other n
Man, I'm bored. So I updated my blog with new stuff. More Green Lantern related, go figure. In the real world I am in the middle of summer, so our schedule is down to 3 days a week in the studio. FORTUNATELY I'm busy working on something epic, that being a megafig of Iron Man. I may have described the last four before (Green Lantern, Captain America, The Flash and Logan (Wolverine) in street clothes) so this is a bit more challenging. For the geeks out there, I'm designing the Iron Man 2/Ave
Took me 10 minutes to come up with that title. Now -that's- sad. So a few small updates on my end, the Mirus are stored safely in my safekeeping. I also have not YET seen TDKR. I'm waiting for the end of the week. Work is steady but it'll be busy all next week. Basically, I have -nothing- to blog about, cause it's boring here. I should do something amazing and blog about that. ... Or sit down and do the Office 2013 review I threatened said I'd do.
Until this sunday, the Vahi is -MINE.- I shall cherish it for as long as it is in my household. But I do hope someone wins it. MAYBE IT CAN BE YOU! YES YOU! Enter by clicking the Vahi image:
Alright, I've been thinking...When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! GET MAD! I DON'T WANT YOUR STUPID LEMONS! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE?!? DEMAND TO SEE LIFE'S MANAGER! MAKE LIFE RUE THE DAY IT THOUGHT IT COULD GIVE SWERT JOHNSON LEMONS! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!? I'M THE MAN WHO'S GOING TO BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! WITH THE LEMONS! I'M GOING TO GET MY ENGINEERS TO INVENT A COMBUSTIBLE LEMON THAT BURNS YOUR HOUSE DOWN!
And yes, I'm bored I should
... What were they thinking?! ... Actually I could see that business meeting now. Nick: Hey LEGO, we have a cool new franchise coming out soon! It'll probably rival Transformers! LEGO: Sweet, now we can beat Hasbro out even more in sales! What's the franchise? Nick: Weeeellll.... And that's pretty much that. But hey, it could be worse. Could be LEGO MLP. And absolutely NOBODY wants that [/sarcasm shielding]
So, I get to Bellevue around 11:20 AM today. I visited the Bellevue Square mall and went to the best store in the building... THE MICROSOFT STORE! ... And then the LEGO Store. 20 minutes later, Dorek arrived. We didn't stick around in there for long. We bought the boss' stuff, like 2 Helm's Deeps, a Monster Fighter Haunted House, a small Friends set for parts, and so forth. I picked out the Vampyre Hearse set, and I bought Dorek a minifig series 8 (the pirate.) After early brunch, we took
One of the major perks I have working in a LEGO art studio, I don't feel guilt for my hobby as a LEGO builder when I go to buy a set. Even more so when I buy said set on the boss' computer, at work. I was browsing the LEGO store while waiting on a ride, and I came across the LEGO hard-to-find items. Set #10215 caught my eye. I had seen it before in 2010 in catalogs. Of course, it's a $100 normally. Oh I couldn't justify buying it now... What's this? It's only $59.99 right now? ... I THREW
Dude. ... Dude. Dibs on Deadpool. Anyway, I'm happy they finally announced another superhero game, and it's even more surprising given I would expect them to release it last year when Avengers hit. I suppose it makes sense to release it when Iron Man 3 hits. I look forward to it, Fall 2013 isn't coming fast enough.
So we've wrapped up the final components to the Death Star. It can now be happily assembled by one man in about 30-40 minutes. We'll put that to the test on monday when we finalize its assembly in a larger area. Once it's done, we can pack it away and progress forward on more projects. Basically speaking, it's time to move on. No more dark side, we have to get going. And I'm actually looking forward to moving on. Oh also, my phone. I love it. That is all.
I love the ninja redesign. Very well done. Oh, also... BRICK. DETAILED. BRICKS. *MIND ASPLODES* And please tell me I am not the only one who wants a ton of these ninjas to make an epic scene with. I'll probably post more later as I see it.
So, I'm feeling pretty stoked with some of my buying options. Tomorrow, I'm going to be buying an Iron Patriot (with gantry) from a friend. That's $22 well worth it right there. After work, I'll be ordering the Eiffel Tower and Wyldstyle's motorcycle (I can't remember the direct set name off the top of my head) and a Joker keychain for my sister's birthday in June (eh, why not?) in addition to cashing in on the Martian Manhunter fig. So yeah, that's 2 Superhero figs I'm getting for quite a
So since I'm stuck on this machine I call SWERT01, I decided to reinstall TF2 onto it. I figure what the hey, I can at least go catch up on my items in the meantime. Also, this is an actual conversation paraphrased I had earlier today: "Hey folks, I'm bored and I'm downloading TF2, wanna watch a DVD?" "Sure, what?" "P·U·L·S·E?" "Sure." Best. Parents. Ever. So yeah, watching that concert now. No complaints or thrown stuff at my head so far. *Insert Freddie Mercury meme emote here*
I have begun uploading THE LAST 488 FILES FOR BS01. This is a monumental moment IMO. Once I'm done, we can see what we're truly missing, and I can still go get them. Also no news on the new processor and mobo yet.
Alright, some HAPPY news. Aww yeah and stuff. So my hard drive enclosure finally arrived. It takes the hard drive I own already, that being the laptop's hard drive, and converts it to a USB 2.0 based connection, thus effectively making it an external hard drive. Advantages? All my stuff is now secured on SWERT04, via SWERT01, plus I have the ability to access this data at any time without opening up my computer to get to it. Also, I'm closer to finding a replacement processor and motherboa
The only thing I truly miss about my laptop? The inability to watch random stuff in my own room versus the living room, and the Windows Live Messenger custom emotes I collected over the year and a half I had it in. ;_; ... And watching random internet videos whenever I want. ... Okay, and my files.
So, it's still dead before we go further. BUT! I talked with someone who owns an electronics repair shop in the same building I work in, and basically he'll check it out for free. I know it's a dead CPU, but let's let an "expert" tell me that. Meanwhile, I'm still on the desktop (SWERT01) and my phone still works (SWERT05), and if all else fails I can go snag back my Zune (SWERT03). (If you're wondering, laptop was SWERT02, and SWERT04 is an internal hard drive in my SWERT01 computer. Thunderb
