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Want Your Own Star Destroyer?

gurustump — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:50:55 +0000

I’m currently sitting in a basement in a lovely colonial home in Germantown, Maryland, guests of the older brother of my good friend Max Fitt. The older brother, Todd, is a nuclear reactor tech and father of two with a fantastic hobby: he builds scale models of Star Wars vehicles. We spent last eventing oohing and aahing at his most audacious creation: a 2.5 foot Star Destroyer.

The thing is rediculously detailed. Todd created much of the surface of the thing from his own molds. The inside has an intricate network of fiber-optic lines which start from some central light bulbs and branch out to the surface of the ship. Todd tells me there are over 1600 distinct light along the surface of the hull. When I have a chance, I’ll post some pictures of the thing. For now, here’s a link to his site, showing images not only of the finished Star Destroyer, but also of the process of its creation:

http://starwarsforay.blogspot.com/

Addendum

I’ve had a chance to upload photos of my trip to the East, so here are some pictures I snapped of the Star Destroyer, as well as some of his Millenium Falcon, and two other freighters of his own design.

Todd Fitt’s Star Wars Models

Late Night Worker

gurustump — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:33:58 +0000

I just got a Canon 7D, and got to put it through its paces working on a little movie called “Late Night Worker.” You can view the movie here. The thing was conceived of and directed by a guy named Kenny McNett. You can check our more of his shenanigans over at his website at www.streetsmartcomedy.com. We shot on June 25th in the middle of the night, and debuted the movie at the LA1/SM3 movie night on July 17th. When Kenny has the movie posted on his YouTube channel, I’ll link to it. In the meantime, here are some photos I shot of the cast and crew while we were getting ready to go make the movie.

Late Night Worker Gallery

Photoshop geniuses: win a new MAC!!!

gurustump — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:28:38 +0000

The Crestock Photoshop contest is upon us once more!!! What is the Crestock Photoshop contest, you ask? I’ll tell you that as soon as I tell you what Crestock is.

Crestock is an online repository of stock photography. The images housed there are all royalty free, so once you’ve bought one, you don’t have to pay anyone every time you use it. You can buy your images a la carte or get a subscription and have your way with the whole library.

No doubt in an effort to generate more sales, Crestock sponsors an annual contest for designers. Each week during the month of the contest, Crestock selects six images from their library and makes them available to anyone who wants to enter the contest. The contestants are then required to use at least one of the photos as the central part of an image. The image can be of anything, eventually. It just has to be cool, show skill and talent with Photoshop, and it helps if the thing is a little funny.

Designers only have one week to work on their image. They upload their entry and the entries are scored both by Crestock’s team of judges and we, the masses online. The first week’s winner receives an iPod Classic and iPod Nano. The winner of week 2 gets a 13″ white MacBook. Week 3 gives out a 15″ MacBook Pro. And the winner of week 4 gets the granddaddy of prizes: a Mac Pro with 2 (yes, two) 30″ Cinema Displays.

So you want to try your hand at winning the big prizes? Follow this link to read all about it:

http://www.crestock.com/blog/design/the-crestock-photoshop-contest-2007-101.aspx

Check out what other people have already made here:

http://www.crestock.com/blog/design/contest2007/entries.aspx

If you want to enter the contest, there is no time to waste! The first set of stock images was put online on November 13th (that’s yesterday for those of you reading this immediately). The first submissions are due November 20th. Good luck if you enter. Otherwise, have fun seeing the crazy and interesting stuff that the contest entrants are already creating.