“I’ve heard a rumour that Luke is wearing Vader’s Kyber Crystal around his neck, and the recent release of the Pop figure images seem to confirm that. So, a spare hour and I’ve created a little piece of fan art…” – Carl Milner.
The Leatherdos is a hair clip that doubles as a multi-tool that combines 5 different tools in a tiny hair clip: screw-drivers, a wrench, a trolley coin, a ruler, and a cutting edge.
Fun story: I have one of these, and wore it every day while working as a vet assistant at a pet clinic. One day a kitten comes in with a cord knotted around her neck, and everyone’s trying to get it unknotted before she heads in for her spay.
I just whip off the hair clip, grab the cord, and slice through it in one go. Everyone stood there, surprised, and stared at the cord in my hand that I just sawed through with a hair clip.
This would be AMAZING if you got kidnapped, or, in this case, a pet gets tangled in something. It’s very light and flexible, but the insides of the teeth are sharp enough to get the job done.
I have a few of these. They are great. They even come in different colors now. And some have different functions.
apparently a trolley coin is like at aldi where you have to put a quarter into a cart to unlock it from the others
Consider this: You can see less than 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 km/sec across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you.” The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star. Human beings have 46 chromosomes, 2 less than the common potato. The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photo-receptors in your eyes; to animals without cones, the rainbow does not exist. So you don’t just look at a rainbow, you create it.
NASA Lunar Science Institute, 2012 (via b-a-m-b-i)
And people told me I couldn’t be a dinosaur when I grew up. Pffft.
OH MY GOD I have a deep burning need for this I WANT THIS FOR A LARP PLEASE!
aw yisss
I LOOOOOOVE huge puppets like these, especially when everyone, collectively, decides to interact with the “character” being portrayed.
A few years ago, Denver Museum Of Nature And Scince had an exhibit on the snowmass dig, and a local artist came in with his own fully articulated and life-size mammoth calf puppet. It was gorgeous and you could see the guy’s legs, like in this one, but he and the staff really got into the character of “oh, here’s our pet baby mammoth on loan from the zoo” and everyone decided to play along.
And the guy REALLY did his homework on how elephants move and react to stimuli and investigate their environment (he had one tic I recognized as unique to one of the female elephants at the zoo but that just means dude studied from the source) and the staff did a great job spotting for him (like in the above video where they were saying “He might be attracted to X” to cue the puppeteer) and he’d do cool stuff like steal/ try to “eat” hats, lean down and let the really little kids touch his tusks and snort air at them, or ‘trumpet’ at cell phones.
I cannot, for the life of me remember the guy’s name or I’d be smooshing his website in y’all’s faces, but the fact that everyone decided to interact with his character as his character was really terrific and frankly kind of magical.
