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Empire Strikes Back Stormtrooper Armor

Behold the awesomeness of my Empire Strikes Back stormtrooper armor! “What makes it ‘Empire Strikes Back’,” you ask? A few things. First off the frown is black. The stormtroopers in ANH (A New Hope – the first Star Wars movie in 1977) had gray frowns. The ANH stormtroopers also had hand painted “tube stripes” and “traps” on their helmets. In Empire...

Not Penny’s Shuttle

We all remember where we were, who we were with, and what we were feeling the day he gave his life. The day he pressed his hand on the glass and… wait… what are we talking about here? There are actually 3 pop-culture references in this. One of them is more subtle than the others and occurs only because of the combination of the other 2. Can you spot all 3? It was pointed out to me that there is...

The Flash

As of August of 2011 I have a Flash costume. This is something I’ve wanted to make and own for years, probably since I was a kid, and finally got a chance to do a really good one. For the suit I got a red, full-face suit from superfansuits.com (totally awesome suits for anything like this sort of thing!) Then I bought a Captain America mask, had my good friend Tye O’Dell (our local “Green...

Star Wars Scrimshaw

A few months back I put out the call to see if anyone was interested in commissioning a piece of Star Wars scrimshaw. I had a piece of mastodon ivory that I had kept for over a decade with the express purpose of doing something “special” on it one day. The call was answered by none other than Steve Sansweet; owner of the world’s largest Star Wars collection and, until just this month,...

MonkeyType Monkeys

I ran a web site a few years back called “MonkeyType.” It was a way for me and some good friends to type nonsense online. We used to sell shirts that said, “Hey… you’re the one reading it.” Here are all of the illustrations I did for our online Monkey personas. In order they are, “Andy of the Apes”, “Kermit the Monkey”, “The Green...

Rube Dugan’s Diving Bell

If you visited Silver Dollar City between 1978 and 1984, then you may remember a ride called “Rube Dugan’s Diving Bell”. Located where the “Lost River of the Ozarks” is now, the Diving Bell was a simulation ride, that took passengers on an journey to the bottom of Lake Silver and back. Far ahead of its time, the Diving Bell was first proposed to Disney World for construction....