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The Dented Helmet member and father CGS1 recently made his six-year-old son an awesome LEGO Star Wars Boba Fett minifigure costume to wear at a local ToyCon. You can view more “making of” photos on the The Dented Helmet forums.

We took the costume for a trial run at a local toycon this past Sunday. I still have to finish building the arms and blaster, as well as tweaking a few things such as the cape fabric. I approached the components of this project as if they were actual Lego elements. In doing so, I created the jetpack to be removable as it appears in the actual minifigure as well as the range finder stalk. The entire costume is built from scratch using photo references and scans I took myself. The costume is built primarily out of sintra with pink insulation foam used to carve the helmet dome and a small amount of plastazote foam used on the tips and base of the jetpack rockets. Torso and leg graphics are printed on adhesive vinyl while a custom green was used to colour match the helmet and jetpack.

photos via The Dented Helmet\

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Pixar director and LEGO fan Angus MacLane has built a great series of LEGO sculptures that portray iconic superheroes and movie characters as lazy couch potatoes. More characters from MacLane’s collection can be viewed online at Flickr.

photos by Angus MacLane

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Goodnight Darth Vader is a fun new Star Wars children’s book created by cartoonist Jeffrey Brown and published by Chronicle Books that is filled with bedtime stories for future Jedi. The book is a follow-up to Brown’s children’s stories, Darth Vader and Son and Vader’s Little Princess. Hardcover editions of Goodnight Darth Vader are available to purchase from Chronicle Books and Amazon.

It’s bedtime in the Star Wars galaxy, and Darth Vader’s parenting skills are tested anew in this delightful follow-up to the breakout New York Times bestsellers Darth Vader™ and Son and Vader’s™ Little Princess. In this Episode, the Sith Lord must soothe his rambunctious twins, Luke and Leia—who are not ready to sleep and who insist on a story. As Vader reads, the book looks in on favorite creatures, droids, and characters, such as Yoda, R2-D2, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Darth Maul, Admiral Ackbar, Boba Fett, and many others as they tuck in, yawn, and settle down to dream. As ever, Jeffrey Brown’s charming illustrations and humor glow throughout, playing on children’s book conventions to enchant adults and kids alike.

images via Chronicle Books

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UK-based chocolatier BlackChocolate uses a mold based on an actual human skull to cast a life-size, anatomically correct Belgian chocolate human skull.

photos via BlackChocolate

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As seen on the Hundeurlaub FB page, original artwork by “Ayka.” We think. Thanks to Aunt Bonnie P.

We love keeping up with what the fabulous Lili Chin is up to, and her newest collection of illustrations totally rocks our world. Lili’s been compiling a massive Dogs of the World illustration collection – a breakdown of dog breeds by the region of their provenance, all rendered in Lili’s distinctive, adorable style. Check out the full collection on tumblr as well as prints, tees, and other goodies for sale!

The officially licensed Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter Knife Holder from The Fowndry will “give your regular old kitchenware a rebellious kick in the vegetables.” Their chrome-effect plastic knife holder comes loaded with five stainless steel knives and is available to purchase online.

Chrome finished and standing over 20cm high, the X-Wing Knife Block raises the status of the humble knife holder. Heck, with this in the kitchen even Aunt Beru would be signing up to give the Empire one in the eye. And as for the Force? Well… it’s useful. But can it chop an onion, dice peppers, and slice a loaf? Can it? We’ll ask George, as soon as he picks up.

images via The Fowndry

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Math writer Alex Bellos demonstrates a more scientific alternative to cake cutting which better maintains the moistness of the innards in the latest episode of the Mathematical Science Research Institute series Numberphile. The method dates back to a 1906 letter to Nature by renowned British scientist Francis Galton, entitled, “Cutting a Round Cake on Scientific Principles”, detailing a method that involves removing thin slices from the cake’s center. Galton also suggested employing a rubber band to help keep the segments together.

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Ruuxa the baby cheetah and Raina the Rhodesian ridgeback puppy meet for the very first time, clumsily climbing all over each other, biting each other and cementing their lifelong friendship through the San Diego Zoo’s Ambassador program in this adorable video posted by the San Diego Zoo.

A 6-week-old cheetah cub at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park is spending lots of time with his new dog companion. The young cheetah, Ruuxa, was chosen to be raised as an animal ambassador at the Safari Park after he was rejected by his mother and had to be hand raised by keepers…Safari Park cheetahs selected for training as ambassadors are paired early in life with a domestic dog. As the two companions grow up together, the dog’s body language will communicate to the cheetah that there’s nothing to fear in new or public surroundings, which relaxes and calms the cheetah. The Safari Park currently has four cheetah ambassadors all of which are trained to participate in the Park’s Cheetah Run experience.

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Photographer Sophie Gamand goes behind the scenes of her imaginative award-winning photo series “Wet Dog” to talk about how she framed and styled the shots (with the help of pet stylist Ruben Santana), what camera equipment she used and the book she has planned for the future in this video posted by Sony. We previously wrote about this photo series in November 2013.

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An Army Reserve soldier, returning home from drills, was exuberantly greeted at the door by Finn, his beautiful and very vocal ragdoll cat in this video posted by wildlimeyogi

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Buddy, a very clever 12-year old iguana comes running like a dog when his human calls, as demonstrated in this video posted by Dave Durham.

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Polish designer Zuzia Kozerska uses a laser engraver to engrave custom designs into wooden rolling pins. In addition to being pleasing to the eye, the engravings will imprint custom patterns into dough for patterned cookies, pastries, and other dough-based creations. Kozerska makes a variety of standard designs and will also customize pins to order.

photos via Zuzia Kozerska

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8-week old Nikai, the big-eyed, big-pawed, insanely adorable wolf puppy, is utterly confounded by a case of the hiccups that’s plaguing his little body in this video posted by the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, New York.

Wolves can make a variety of vocalizations. They growl, whimper, whine, bark, huff, howl… Although the wolf’s howl is has been the inspiration for films, essays, poems, etc… we think there is another sound that evokes equal levels of emotion and excitement – a wolf pup’s hiccup!

image via Wolf Conservation Center

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Photographer Benjamin Von Wong recently shot these ethereal underwater fashion photos in a complex shoot at a shipwreck off the coast of Bali. Von Wong describes the many complications of such a shoot on his blog, which included finding underwater models — they are all free-divers — and convincing a designer to create clothes that would be destroyed by the water. This behind-the-scenes video offers a good glimpse of the complexity of Von Wong’s project.

photos by Benjamin Von Wong

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For their latest video, “The Sound of Maleficent,” SoundWorks Collection talks to Tim Nielsen of Skywalker Sound, the sound designer for the Disney film Maleficent.

The one sound reoccurring moment that we refer to the original is the classic Maleficent laugh — the deep, bellowing evil laugh. A lot of work was done to pay homage to it.

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Allen Park, Michigan-based professional sculptor Bobby Causey has created a beautiful collection of hyperrealistic latex sculptures based on famous Hollywood actors and movie characters. You can view more from Bobby’s series on his website and deviantART gallery.

photos via BobbyC1225

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This Little Orang Bebeh doesn’t seem to mind it one beet!!!

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Taxi, a loyal service dog in San Antonio, Texas, took his place in the 7th grade school yearbook right next to Rachel Benke, the young girl with epilepsy who had been in Taxi’s charge for the past four years.

He goes everywhere with the soon-to-be eight-grader, including accepting awards at school, celebrating birthdays, and even on the school track where he one day sprung into action. “Her aide was holding Taxi on the side and he just started pulling away from the aide as hard as he could trying to get to Rachel,” [Theresa] Benke said. She said once they got her inside, Rachel had a grand mal seizure, and Taxi wouldn’t leave the girl’s side. “I don’t know how Taxi new this, but he wouldn’t let anyone near her until the paramedics arrived,”- KHOU 11.

image by Theresa Benke

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California Extreme 2014, a celebration of coin-operated arcade games, takes place at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara on July 12 and 13. The show will feature pinball machines, video games, and other arcade novelties, all available for free play. As the games are all in the hands of private collectors, the show is also a venue for buying, selling, and trading of vintage arcade machines.

I was obsessed with Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side as a kid. When those strips were shut down in 1995 I completely abandoned newspaper comics. Clearly, I should have been following Pearls Before Swine because I would have been very curious to know why panels in some of his recent comics looked a hell of a lot like something Bill Watterson would draw.

Well guess what.

Pearls Before Swine‘s Stephan Pastis has revealed that he secretly collaborated with Watterson on a series of strips. The reclusive genius behind Calvin and Hobbes had returned to the comics page.

Pastis tells the story behind the collaboration on his blog. It started when he sent Watterson this strip:

To his surprise, Watterson actually responded. And he proposed a collaboration based on Pastis’ tendency to make fun of his own art skills. Watterson thought it would be funny if he secretly drew panels in Pearls Before Swine for a few days. As you might expect, Pastis thought he was living a dream:

Let me tell you. Just getting an email from Bill Watterson is one of the most mind-blowing, surreal experiences I have ever had. Bill Watterson really exists? And he sends email? And he’s communicating with me?

But he was. And he had a great sense of humor about the strip I had done, and was very funny, and oh yeah….

…He had a comic strip idea he wanted to run by me.

Now if you had asked me the odds of Bill Watterson ever saying that line to me, I’d say it had about the same likelihood as Jimi Hendrix telling me he had a new guitar riff. And yes, I’m aware Hendrix is dead.

He went on to say:

At every point in the process, I feared I would say something wrong. And that Bill would disappear back into the ether. And that the whole thing would seem like a wisp of my imagination.

But it wasn’t that way.

Throughout the process, Bill was funny and flexible and easy to work with.

Like at one point when I wanted to change a line of dialogue he wrote, I prefaced it by saying, “I feel like a street urchin telling Michelangelo that David’s hands are too big.” But he liked the change. And that alone was probably the greatest compliment I’ve ever received.

In the strip at the top, Watterson’s hand is clearly present in the first and second panels with both the drawings and majority of the lettering. In the comic below, the same is true for the second panel.

The entire series can be viewed on GoComics starting here. Watterson worked on three strips in total. There is also an interview with Bill Watterson about his involvement in The Washington Post. He notes:

“I had expected to just mess around with his characters while they did their usual things,” Watterson tells me, “but Stephan kept setting up these situations that required more challenging drawings .?.?. so I had to work a lot harder than I had planned to! It was a lot of fun.”

Keep in mind that Bill Watterson is like the J.D. Salinger of comic strips, so this is a rare and wonderful moment. However, it seems that Watterson has taken steps to get back into the comics game a bit starting with his involvement in the Stripped documentary earlier this year. Could he be getting an itch to make a full blown comeback? I wouldn’t hold my breath for new Calvin and Hobbes, but I’ll be dammed if that wouldn’t be a dream come true.

Thanks to Jenn for the tip!

Previously, Bane Cat had tortured his owner enough that the evil cat had been put up for sale. Bane Cat did not approve. Now he’s back, still for sale, but with a plan for vengeance. He’s not alone this time, and that spells trouble for his poor owner. When cats team up, you don’t even stand a chance.

See the video after the break.

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Someone else gets all the attention in this latest and greatest from Simon Tofield. A certain cat does not appreciate this, either.

You’re Getting Old! is a fascinating website that offers facts and statistics relating to a person’s lifetime once their date of birth is entered. For example, someone born on February 25th, 1987 is currently 9,963 days old, and they were 13 when Wikipedia launched. The website also includes a pie chart featuring an approximation of how many people born on that date are currently alive versus dead as well as many more features.

Do you think time is catching up with you? Perhaps it’s already overtaken you and left you in the dust.
Do the years seem to be going ridiculously quickly now? There’s a reason for it. You’re getting old.

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“This is our Alaskan Malamute, Lulu. (Her full name is Honolulu Lulu Surfer Queen. I named her after the Jan & Dean song, Honolulu Lulu!) Monday was her first birthday, so we celebrated with silly hats and pupcakes. Pardon the mess; we closed on our first house last week!

Brazilian product design firm Meninos has created Food Zombies, reusable plastic toothpicks designed to look like zombies emerging from their graves. The “party picks” come in packs of a dozen with six green and six gray brain-eaters.

images via Meninos

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What But Why has created a chart that depicts a 90-year human life in weeks. In addition to a blank chart, they made a chart that depicts the typical phases of an American life, and a chart of famous deaths. For anyone who would like to stare at the sum total of their life in poster form, the blank chart is available for purchase.

images via What But Why

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BaneCat returns in Episode 2 of the ongoing webseries of the same name by BloodBlitz of Robs Rants. In this devilishly good episode, BaneCat teams up with a new evil friend that he can both play and joke around with.

Artist Gregory Raymond Halili makes incredible skull art by hand carving and painting mother of pearl in oyster shells.

photos via Gregory Raymond Halili

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