Ian_Leino's Threadless Blog

SausageFest '08

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:23:23 -0500

So we're going to have a big sausage cookout sort of party at our place sometime in August, and being a t-shirt designerish person, I thought that such an occasion demanded its own shirt. And of course, it could only be improved through cheesy faux-vintage styling, and an apologetic double entendre.

I have a friend who has access to a screenprinting press, so I think I'll actually physically print these myself, which sounds like lots of fun.

TRON lightcycles - I wants one

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:37:09 -0500

Scroll for sweet pic below:

Even though it IS missing the light beam behind it, I still desperately want one of these awesome Swiss machines. They're around $81k though, so I think I'd have to get about 40 prints to be able to afford one.

I'm betting Hogboy and Glennz each have one, and race them around kiwiland.

Too....many...awesome...shirts

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:33:47 -0500

Holy crap is this an amazing week for shirts. Congrats to the many many deserving designers!

custom Super Mario level as electronic percussion

Wed, 28 May 2008 09:34:56 -0500

Some people just have too much damn time on their hand. I can't even fathom having the patience to custom build a SMB level just so the sounds time out as electronic percussion, much less testing it out, then running the levels perfectly. Confused? Just watch and be amazed:

Mindbendingly awesome stopmotion animation

Wed, 14 May 2008 10:13:01 -0500

I saw a small part of this awhile back, but just now found the full video. It's an incredibly inventive concept for a stopmotion animation technique, and is pretty mesmerizing to watch.

My ThreadLeMans car -now with Pictures!

Sat, 10 May 2008 11:56:11 -0500

... is going to kick ass. All other entrants should be prepared to quake at its might awesomeness.

That is all for now. Updates and pics to follow soon.

Your votes. I can has them? - last day!

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:39:45 -0500

About the process:
The first step was to find enormous replicas of brass instruments, which is not as easy as it looks. Like so many things, they seem to be EVERYwhere until you actually need one, at which point they have mysteriously vanished from the face of the earth. I eventually found these at the bottom of a strangely glowing mound in the back of a second-hand shop.

After that, all I had to do was replace the barrels of these war engines with the musical instruments, don a general's hat, and have my friend take this picture with his experimental new camera that films in Halftone-o-vision�. I was hoping to do the whole thing without any Photohouse trickery, but we were never able to get the right exposure to capture the musical notes, so I admit that I did have to add that in post.

I hope this has been both entertaining and instructional. If so, please take a moment to vote or comment.

Thanks!

Reprinted!

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:47:26 -0500

Wow, I had no idea this was being reprinted until I saw it up on the front page today. What an awesome surprise! Thanks so much to everyone who commented and voted on the original sub, and also to everyone who requested a reprint!

Some of my designs change a good deal from the initial concept to the final execution, but this one stayed almost exactly the same as the original tiny sketch I made on the edge of my notebook while we were at my wife's great-aunt's house watching dull network television last Thanksgiving. See for yourself:

Thanks again everyone!

An Engineer's Guide to Cats

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:28:55 -0500

Fun little video crafted from pure deadpan engineer humor.

Nerdalicious video - Papercraft, stopmotion TRON

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:17:13 -0500

Something tells me that those three words together may be one of the nerdiest things ever. Behold the majesty:

Tron
by freres-hueon