Pretend you're a hacker in two easy steps!

Step 1: go to http://www.hackertyper.com/

Step 2: Start typing anything. Anything at all. Just watch what happens.

Talk about the perfect prop for a movie, am I right?

Capture Creatures!

A cool year-long online art project based on Pokemon! 


"Capture Creatures is a showcase of 151 creatures hand-painted by Becky, with their stories adapted by her partner Frank Gibson."


The idea is that they are making their own set of 151 Pokemon-like creatures, the same number as the original number of Pokemon. Her creatures are adorable, and could totally pass for real Pokemon. I wish some of them were. Look at how cute they are:

PESKY [41 OF 151]

APRIL 9, 2012

Peskys body neither has the scales of an amphibious creature nor the fur of a feline, instead it is covered in downy feathers more akin to an avian infant. Despite its appearance as part fish, its tail acts more like a paddle than a rudder, limiting its movement. Peskys meows also act as sonar.

PALETILE [35 OF 151]

MARCH 23, 2012

Paletile communicate through art. Their brush is crafted from the shedded antlers of the Budu and the moulted hair of Scottness. A particularly social creature, Paletile often paints upon other creatures. When painted upon by a Paletile, the appearance of Capaphant alters dramatically and it’s believed they become more powerful.

TOVEADILE [22 OF 151]

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Toveadile is a compact and stout creature that thrives in damp environments, often cohabitating with other creatures of its kind on humid riverbanks and in swamps. The main offensive strategy of a Toveadile is confusing its opponents with bubbles that it expels from its troll-like snout.

BON BON FIRE [1 OF 151]

JANUARY 2, 2012

The most notable feature of the Bon Bon Fire is the flaming bamboo that resides atop its head. This allows it to stay warm in the winter months. Generally congregating in packs, their cheek markings vary from region to region and are used to identify unfamiliar creatures.

And those are just a few of them. As of the writing of this post, there are 41 Capture Creatures completed, but a new one is added every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If you want to see more, check out http://www.capturecreatures.com !

Wouldn't it be cool if someone could make a hacked Pokemon rom of FireRed or LeafGreen and replace the 151 Pokemon with these? 

I would do it if I had the means, but unfortunately my mac (with its horrible OS X Lion) does not support ANY of the programs necessary for rom-hacking. Grrr.

If anyone else agrees with me and decides they might want to do this as a project, let me know! I would love to help out in any way I could.

Plushie Procrastination: The Cube Monster

So, remember my plushie procrastination post from a little while ago? Well, I decided to go for it and make a stuffed animal--or, rather, a stuffed cube monster.

I'm using this tutorial I found online and the leftover fabric from the Cookie Monster Halloween costume I made a few years ago, and because I don't have a sewing machine at school I'm sewing it by hand. Which is taking forever.

Here are some pictures of what I've done so far (and it took me around two hours. . .sewing by hand = worst idea ever):

Body:

(notice the safety pins holding most of it together. . .only three squares are actually sewn together)

Face:

So I still need to finish sewing the body together, make horns, and stuff it, but so far so good!

Re: Typewriter Procrastination

My typewriter:

Thought I should include it since I made a whole typewriter appreciation post.

Finally, Pictures!

Finally took the time to photograph the stamps I made for letterboxing! 

The Results:

Personal Stamp:

   

 Blog Logo Stamp:

(forgive the blurriness--my camera refuses to focus, ever)

Stamp for a letterbox (still deciding which one):

Stamp for the "Knot Too Hard to Find" Letterbox:

I also registered a trail name on LbNA (Letterboxing North America): 

I am CuriosityKilledtheGPA. 

AND I finished my first letterbox--now I just need to plant it and post the clue online. Yay!

It's called the "Knot Too Hard to Find" Letterbox. As you can see.

 Ta da!

Toy Store Trouble

Sometimes, I wish I could be a little kid again. Then I would have an excuse to linger in toy stores and want to buy everything. I could play Pokemon Cards with people. I could fight with fake swords and want light-up laser guns without anyone judging me. But I'm not a little kid anymore. So when I absent-mindedly wandered into a local toy store on my way to CVS today, I'm pretty sure the women watching me from behind the counter either thought that I was buying a gift for a younger relative or that I was an awfully strange college student.

It just brought back so many memories to be in a toy store. Legos. Playmobile. Pokemon cards. Stuffed animals. Nerf guns. Laser guns. Lightsabers. Dinosaur figurines. Stuffed R2-D2s. Hot Wheels. Spy gear. I suddenly had this explosion of nostalgia and wanted to buy all of the things I couldn't when I was seven years old and had no money. They had Pokemon decks! Giant eggs that hatched into just-add-water dinosaurs! Nerf guns that glowed in the dark. Fluffy stuffed animals with giant eyes.

It was all too much. I couldn't take it. I had to leave. My inner child was clamoring too loudly for me to get all of these things I definitely did not need. So I made do with getting my friend a birthday present (can you say Star Wars plushie?) and then moving on to CVS and Starbucks, where I actually intended to go.

I had to resist so hard just to leave the Pokemon cards on the shelf. Talk about ridiculous.

Letterboxing Update: Tupperware, Paper, and Pens, oh my!

Bought some little pads of paper and a bulk bag of cheap pens today. Couple those with the tupperware containers I got a week or two ago and I almost have everything I need to finally plant the letterboxes around campus! Now all I need to get are a couple of small ink pads and the letterboxes will finally be done!