Minecraft Collage Sculpt

Mojang hosted a fan art community contest at PAX Prime 2012, and I decided to go ahead and submit a piece. (spoiler alert: my piece wasn't chosen) It was very fun to make, and also pretty challenging and tedious to cut out so many tiny squares. Also? I'm not a fan of the math necessary to cut up small squares into even smaller, even sized squares. From here on out I may stick with wibbly wobbly cut-as-I-please pieces. I hope you enjoy!

Time: Ten hours

Minecraft is property of Mojang.

Song: Crafty by Flawgic. http://soundcloud.com/flawgic

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Creeper out to Play

While in Ireland I went on a wee photo shoot with my little Creeper from Minecraft.

-MJ

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Decorating in Style. Geek Style!

While decking the halls with a fellow gamer friend, she showed me some super cute Super Mario Bros. ornaments that she owned. They added a lot of fun to the otherwise traditional decorations in her home and on her tree, and I started thinking about what other kinds of geeky ornaments exist in the world!

(This all dovetails nicely with the Ocarina of Time note ornaments that I included in my 'gift' post from last week.)

Without having specific products in mind to search for, I had to go with a generic 'geek Christmas', or 'geek decorations' search. I bet the internet holds more treasures still, but here are the fun things that I found!

-Custom TARDIS/Doctor Who holiday stocking from geekabyebaby on Etsy

-Hand painted Creeper festive platter from sweetpeapaint on Etsy

-Digital gaming wreath from ThinkGeek

-Super Mario Bros. puffy ornament set from bowlerhatbudgie on Etsy

-Pixel snowman mug from ThePeachPoppy on Etsy

-Invincible Star tree topper from jinglebells0424 on Etsy

-Star Wars Yoda lights from ThinkGeek

There are more options still for those who prefer a diy approach to their festivities. I found a few fun Mario Nutcrackers, for instance! Do you have any geek or gaming related holiday decorations in your house?

-MJ

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Revealing Photography: Minecraft Creeper Edition.

While in Ireland last year I made a small papercraft Creeper from Minecraft, then I took it out into the wilderness for a photo shoot. Some of you may have spied the photos on my now not-posted-to photo blog, but that's irrelevant.

These are the photos that mobs don't want you to see! They're... the lighter side of Creepers!

Little known fact: Creepers love tiny daisies. 

Their preferred sleeping location? Inside of hybrid tulips.

You wouldn't know it based on their common tendencies to explode, but

Child Safety is extremely important to Creepers. 

Here we catch a rare glimpse of a Climbing Creeper. The height advantage

allows them to survey the land for children in distress and comfortable flowers.

And there you have it! Aren't you feeling more informed and enlightened already? These creatures are horribly misunderstood. Perhaps I'll investigate more characters in a full video game photography series. Any suggestions?

-MJ

*all photo credit A Bit of Geek, feel free to share but please credit and link back :)

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Sunday Photo Spot

A little gathering of fun photos from the web this week :)

::: If Ocarina of Time graphics looked like this, then King Dodongo would have actually been scary.

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::: Adorable running Mario!

Can't find the source! If you know it, please tell me!

::: Beautiful scenes from Link's first adventure in Ocarina of Time.

View more amazing pieces here.

::: I'm glad that Creepers aren't this detailed in the game.

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::: So precious.

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::: Baby adult, baby adult! Yoshi and Mario go way back.

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This has been video game centric, but that's just how the pieces fell this week. You can expect a wider variety for future Sundays!

-MJ

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