OMG Another Sale!!!!

I just made another sale on Red Bubble! Ten minutes ago, someone bought a greeting card of my "Skeleton Crew" pic!!!! I'm super excited!!!!! I'm ecstatic that people like my Lego pics!!!! Thank you so much to whoever bought it!!!! :D

Skeleton Crew Originally uploaded by s.kosoris

Doritos Write the End!

I have submitted an ending for the Doritos Write the End Contest! In each ending, one of two flavours must be destroyed in some way. First place is $25,000 and 1% of all future sales of the surviving flavour. Please help me out by voting on my ending! My ending has steampunk robots which fly into the sun! There are only five days left to vote!!!!

Red Bubble Updated

It's been awhile since I've been on Red Bubble so I decided to update it today. I added 8 new shots to my portfolio (almost all of which were Lego) and discovered their new Collection feature (I now have four Collections which organize my photos in the way that Sets do on Flickr). If you have a chance, why not stop by for a look?

And if anyone is looking for it, Blurry Sasha is also available on Red Bubble.

Another Pic Added to a Gallery!

My Chewbacca portrait was added to someone's gallery! This gallery isn't very big, but it has a few really awesome pictures! Thanks Der Grantler!

Another Third Place!

Once again I won third place in the Friends of the Sleeping Giant Photo Contest! Last year I won in the scenery category. This year it's in people. Yes, "Pay the Ferryman" came in third place!

Like "Joe Creek Falls" last year, "Pay the Ferryman" will be appearing at the Sleeping Giant Visitor's Centre this summer and will also be featured on the Friends' website. It may also appear in the park's tabloid!

Published!

I wrote an article for work which appeared in the local paper today! The article was inspired by a paper I wrote for school on Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun. With the knowledge still fresh in my head, I thought it would be a great way to showcase some of the library's resources. You can find a copy here!

Aw Shit! Recreated with Lego

I was looking over my Halo screenshots the other day and came across this one (which I have titled "Aw Shit!"). It looked simple enough to recreate, so I thought I would give it a shot. The stone background reminded me of the texture on my door, so I figured I was good to go!

But of course I failed to take into account the rocket. How the heck was I going to recreate that? Physically it was easy enough: I used a couple of pieces from the missiles found in the Space Police set Freeze Ray Frenzy (a Light Bluish Gray Technic, Pin 1/2 with 2L Bar Extension and a Trans-Neon Green Cone 1 x 1 without Top Groove). But then I got stuck trying to figure out how to position it (and what to use). Originally I was going to try to use the pieces I have for my Lego Ecco picture but I couldn't come up with a good way to angle it. So then I had the fantastic idea to use string. Unfortunately, what do you attach the string to, to hang the rocket?

After a couple of really stupid ideas (like hanging string over the door and trying to somehow make that work), I eventually tied the rocket onto a pen, which was anchored in some Legos (the same ones I used to create the Rapunzel tower). Then I used a flashlight to illuminate the rocket (and kind of make the strings less noticable). Unfortunately in doing so it lit the whole picture, so my Lego attempt is a lot brighter than the original.

So anyway, here is the final product. It took a lot more effort than I expected, but I think it turned out alright.

It also appears on my Flickr photostream.