On A Dresden Codak Laptop Mod

Here is a project I did a while ago, while I attempt to catch up on my list of awesome stuff to do.  I thought to myself one day while sitting in foulab, "wow! I have all the materials And tools to do an awesome laptop mod, AND 24 hours of free time. Maybe there is a god..." after having a quick conversation with all my renegade personalities, we decided the only thing awesome enough to dedicate this laptop mod would be Aaron Diaz's Dresden Codak (not the mexican pop star, his laptop mod will look like this).  This Mod went through two iterations because the first time I didn't have time to smooth the edges.  Observe:

Similar to the hoody (my favorite article of clothing) on the table next to it, the design in the laptop glows (thanks to the backlight).

 This is what it looks like at the moment:

Sadly, I need to do it a third time, but I'm holding off until I have the art of silk screening mastered, the above was done with tape, a razor blade and a printout.

All for now,

-The Baron


ps. materials list:
-plexiglass
-epoxy
-car body putty
-lots of black spray paint
Don't hesitate to ask me anything.

On The Path to Embodying Pure Evil

I've been meaning to make it abundantly clear to people that;
1. I'm not to be trifled with and
2. Experimenting with how far I need to go before people start calling the happy home on me.
The following is by far my best attempt to come of as a dangerous psychopath in a long time. You would not believe how fun it is to call up an old friend (who you are aware is getting into taxidermy as a hobby) and offer to drive around and pick up road kill for giggles. It's fun. Ignoring the intrinsic hilarity that swerving off the highway for a dead animal entails... ignoring the fundamental comedy that is trying (failing) to walk non-nonchalantly down a busy road while carrying a partially crushed rodent.... I had a vested interest in collecting dead things. Namely, I want to make my shiny new xbox into a bone horror. That is, I'm looking to harvest the bones from these animals and turn the xbox, and a controller, into something that a necromancer might call his cigar box. Here is the state of that project:

Blurry night time picture of a freshly dug grave

I've buried the animals we found hopefully bellow the frost line so that they will continue to decompose over winter. With any luck, in a couple months when the ground above it has become soft enough to dig again the meat and organs will be gone and I'll be able to dig up bones that I will wash, bleach, and work into an xbox design. At the moment I may not have enough dead matter to complete the project (2 raccoons and 1/2 a porcupine). We shall see. In the mean time, click below for pictures of dead things and gore. Consider yourself warned.

GORE

GORE

GORE

-The Baron

ps. if you clicked on the links, the answer is gravel.

On the Frankenstein Phone

Land line phones are essentially a thing of the past. That being said they're much easier to mod then dense, microchip saturated smart phones that grow in our pockets.  This is why when I decided my land line phone was being inconvenient, I'd rip it apart and change it until it was convenient.  Here's how it started:

 This is what its guts look like after you use brute force and ignorance (and a screwdriver) to open it:

 This is what I wanted to replace the... button thingy, that controls when it picks up and hangs up...

 this is inside this very old antique electrical switch:

 and this is what it looks like after I've replaced the button, with a big bad-ass switch from the 50's.

The phone crackles a little when I hang up, but now I don't need to put it back on the base to hang up... hell, if I replace the cable I don't even need to be near  the base.  Hence why I modded it. That and I like the electronic guts and antiquated components, like modding your laptop to have a vaccum tube transistor... I need to do that some time...

-The Baron