First Lego Stop Motion Video!

The Door
Originally uploaded by s.kosoris

Today I made my first Lego Stop Motion video! "The Door" is my version of a roleplaying adventure I witnessed several years ago. One of the players was thrown into jail. While there, he met a crazy old man who claimed he could get out. The old man drew a picture of a door on the wall of the cell, then told the player to run at it as fast as he could while believing it would work. The player refused, then went to sleep. When he woke up, the old man was gone. So the player decided to run at the door like the old man said. The only problem was that he didn't believe. And so the door didn't work.

I've wanted to try making a stop motion video using Lego for awhile now. So I thought this would be the perfect short vignette for my first one.

It took several hours to make and is only about 30 seconds long. I did all of the voices using the sound recording equipment on my computer. I also had to reshoot the ending because I didn't like what I originally had.

Do check out the video and let me know what you think!

The Xbox 360 Saga

On Wednesday night, I came home from a friend's house. We had been making a new map on Halo 3's Forge, which we had called "Tunnels." My friend uploaded it onto his file share, so when I got home, I tried to retrieve it. And that was when the trouble started.

Halo kept freezing. If I rebooted the 360 with the game still in it, it gave me the "red ring of death" (pictured). But if I pulled it out and rebooted, or had a different game in, then it was fine. Examining the disc, it looked rather scratched up. So I decided to unplug everything, then try it all again in the morning.

The next morning, I tried turning the 360 on. This time I couldn't even get to the dashboard. All I got was the red ring.

I tried to go online to look into repairing my console. But I ran into a bit of trouble with that, so I had to phone Xbox. I had to get going though, so I had to phone them back after school. Thankfully, I found out that Microsoft had extended the warranty of the 360 due to this problem. My 360 was still covered!

I ran over to a friend's place. We then went to get Halo resurfaced (which was probably kind of dumb - we should have tried it first). Once it was resurfaced, we tried it out, and it worked fine. So after school I had to phone Xbox back. When all was said and done, my 360 had to be sent in. It should be back within two to three weeks, and I'll be getting a free month of Xbox Live for the inconvenience!

This did come at a kind of bad time though. On the one hand, I have essays to write, so I won't be distracted by Halo Wars. But on the other hand, I'm planning on writing one of the essays on Halo, using some quotes from Halo 3...so hopefully I'll be able to rely on Youtube, or go over to a friend's place to research.

First youtube Video!

I'm extremely excited - today I made my first youtube video!!!! The video features my brother demonstrating the craziest thing: when making a float out of coke and frozen yogurt, it'll fiz like mad when you add a spoon! Here's the video: