If IKEA Made Geeky Furniture Part 16: Battlestar Galactica Wardrobe
I believe there is a huge market for selling pro sports-style lockers for home use, either for jocks or the armchair quarterbacks. These would be wardrobes that look just like the locker stalls you’d find in the NHL, NBA, NFL, etc. The wardrobe would be painted in team colors and feature name plaques with logos. This could be placed in the bathroom, TV den, by the front door, etc. Wherever you get ready for the day. Or wherever you want to display your favorite team gear.
And this goes beyond team sports. You could make these in the style of Battlestar Galactica, Mass Effect, or Starship Troopers as they carry a military aesthetic. Men in Black is another fun approach. Maybe the employee lockers for the Krusty Krab or Ghostbusters.
The point being that you could have a fun wardrobe that exhibits your favorite team, TV show, film, or video game. This themed wardrobe would enable you to feel like a badass when you’re accessing it.
One major change is I don’t foresee these being made of heavy materials (such as steel) like the actual locker stalls. Probably wood construction complimented by plastic or rubber fixtures (for the grates).
Other possible accessories: A bench or a rug with the team logo.
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Decoration Idea: Video Game Screenshot Picture Box
UPDATE: There is now one you can try to make based on Super Mario Bros 3.
You know those 3D movie posters McFarlane Toys sells? Now you can make something similar for video games. Here is a fun, inexpensive DIY decoration idea for a rainy day: a picture box frame that contains a diorama of a video game screenshot. Now you can hang a 3D image of your favorite video game on the wall!
Picture Box frames are exactly what they sound like, a box with a glass frame. These are used to display physical objects, like medals or trophies. These are typically about 1″-4″ deep, and range in size from a document (8.5″x 11″) to a massive 2’x3′ to hang sports jerseys and other collectibles.
They are perfect for this diorama idea, allowing you to recreate the depth of a video game. The diorama is comprised of a background image, some objects/characters extending from the background, and then foreground elements pressed against the glass.
For this Super Metroid example, the sky and horizon background is on the back of the frame, Samus and her spaceship are planted in the middle space (mounted to the background), and the foreground (ground and HUD) are pressed against the glass.
There would be a papercraft approach to this project, as you are cutting out individual objects. You’ll also need to create paper mounts to suspend characters and objects in air. Read the rest of this entry
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Wile E. Coyote Blueprint Posters Now Available
You can buy a poster of this image here. You can find wallpapers here.
As you can see I updated the art substantially since I released the wallpaper this past spring. I missed a few details, the largest being the whole box and its contents were tilted.
You can buy a poster of this image here. You can find wallpapers here.
Another mistake I made in the original wallpaper was placing a pile of birdseed rather than an ‘X’. I must have been thinking of another failed Wile E. Coyote plan.
For both I would like to add a grid to the background, but these are how they appeared in the cartoon.
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Home Exterior Decoration Idea: Lego-fy Your House
Happy Halloween! These last few weeks I’ve noticed many homes all decked-out in festive decorations, and it’s really cool to see. It got me thinking about ways to decorate homes in a more permanent fashion.
The first thought that struck me was Lego. Who wouldn’t want to live in a Lego house? It will turn heads, isn’t too garish, and can be a permanent fixture. Best of all it’s extremely geeky.
This can be accomplished by adding cylindrical discs to the roof and chimney top and other horizontally flat surfaces. The fence, walkway, and driveway can also be lined with Lego “bumps”.
I’m not a handyman type of guy, maybe someone can shed some light on how to properly go about this. I have a few theories: Read the rest of this entry
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Heavy Duty Office Chair
Just like the Sith, some of my ideas are born of hate. I loathe office chairs because despite their initial good looks and comfort, they are not durable. How companies not factor in this wear-and-tear into their chair designs is beyond me.
That said, I have designed what I feel is the one chair to rule them all. This heavy duty chair is a monster: steel frame, redundant wheels, shock absorbers, and tension springs. It is painted yellow to alert your co-workers of its presence; a trait symbolic of its construction equipment pedigree. Essentially a Tonka chair! Read the rest of this entry
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Watch This! Part 6: Hot Wheels
It’s been awhile since the last Watch This post, so I thought I’d revisit the series with this Hot Wheels entry. Essentially the wrist strap is comprised of the Hot Wheels orange modular track that was popular in the 70’s and 80’s, and features some miniature cars that traverse said track.
The watch would work if the cars were static, but I think it’s possible to have them loose and affixed to the track, like beads to a thread. A flick of the wrist would have the card race around.
This layout has the cars entering and exiting the watch face, however they could remain outside. You could even have a lone car enclosed in the watch face doing an eternal loop.
Like this idea? Check out this clock or this sign design. Here is the rest of the Watch This series.
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Geeky Fashion Part 3: Donkey Kong Jeans
These Donkey Kong jeans would feature stitching that looks just like the steel girders and ladders from the game, as well as barrel-looking fasteners and buttons. Perhaps the odd embroidered character too.
For me I would limit this style to the jean pockets, though I imagine the girls could sport a pair of jeans that were fully encompassed in this kind of stitching. This design would work best on darker-colored denims.
Maybe DKNY could make these?
