Edward Snowden (b. June 21, 1983)
Edward Snowden (b. June 21, 1983)
Technical expert Edward Snowden once felt something to which he had access contained evidence of something he felt was deeply wrong, in a way the public had a right to know about. The echoes of his actions continue on the world stage, and have left him exiled with no current possibility of fair trial.
Acrylic on canvas, 5x7″. From my September 2015 set Luminaries of the Hacker World.
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Nikola Tesla (July 10, 1856-January 7, 1943)
Tesla, a Serbian-American inventor never fully appreciated in his own lifetime, has in retrospect become known as one of the most important inventors on record. Much of our 21st -century technological environment has its roots in Tesla's work with electricity, radio, and more.
Acrylic on canvas, 5x7″. From my September 2015 set Luminaries of the Hacker World.
When I learned that Neighborcon's own Travis Goodspeed encouraged attendees to counterfeit the con's Tennessee-shaped badges, I swore I'd make the best Tennessee-shaped badge ever and proudly display it at Neighborcon NYC in December 2009.
When I arrived I found out Travis meant the badge should be shaped like Tennessee the state, not Tennessee the playwright. How embarrassing.
Permanent marker on PVC.
Linus Torvalds (b. December 28, 1969)
Finnish-American software engineer Linus Torvalds is the founding developer of Linux, a free and open-source operating system kernel which led to countless implementations and derivatives and grew into the system driving an ever-increasing amount of public, professional, and private computing work.
Acrylic on canvas, 5x7″. From my September 2015 set Luminaries of the Hacker World.
Callie and Izzy is an upcoming webseries it’s been my pleasure to be part of. The show is by Nicola Rose, with whom I’ve previously worked on The Media Show and the musical Aisle Six.
More info coming soon, keep an eye on it!
More The Wicker Man nonsense. My extra-derpy Nicholas Cage from my earlier piece is now a brand mascot, paying tribute to another memorable line from that cinematic bee-sting. Would you buy your next bottle of God Damn Honey from this man?
Inspired by the ending of this rather brilliant Wicker Man YouTube Poop.
Original photo by Flickr user TheTruthAbout (cc by-sa)
The Fifth of November, 1955
Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The scientist hanging a clock, Who knew on that date, That fortune and fate, Would reveal so much more to the Doc. Doc Brown, Doc Brown, he did invent Such objects of folly, with good intent, He tumbled and fell in his lavatory But soon after took to his lab'ratory For though he'd been woefully injur'ed A vision unfurled in his bruis'ed head Great Scott! Great Scott! From this disaster Great Scott! Great Scott! The Flux Capac'tor! And what did he do with it? Build it!
Archival ink on paper, 6x8". The original drawing is now owned by a private collector. I've also done a reading of this poem on YouTube.
AISLE SIX - YOUR ONE-STOP SUPERMUSICAL by Nicola McEldowney
More info on the FREE April 11 reading of this show in New York City which you can FREELY attend for FREE can be found in this blog post.
More info on the show itself can be found on my site as well as the author's own page about the show.
If you're in the area, come see us!
Sometimes upon encountering a captcha the obvious captchart gag comes immediately to mind, and won't leave one alone until one finds the right photos to 'shop.
Public domain sources: 1 2
Hello! I've been painstakingly replicating the TARDIS Key as used by the Eighth and Seventh Doctors in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie. Now you can buy a 3D print of it or, if you have access to the proper gear, download my file for free and print your own.
The key prop used in the film was an official TARDIS key replica available at the time from 800-Trekker, a now-long-defunct scifi memorabilia catalog, under license from the BBC in the early 1990s. The 800-Trekker key was a unique design largely based on TARDIS keys used on-screen by the Third and Fourth Doctors in the 1970s, but with many noticeable differences from those TV props. Rather than design a new TARDIS key for the 1996 film, the film's prop department just bought a supply of those keys from 800-Trekker and made them the canonical key design used by the Seventh and Eighth Doctors in their movie.
The newly-canonical 800-Trekker keys became very popular with fans, but had already been out of production and in limited supply by the film's release. They were also made of a very soft pewter which scratched and bent easily, so very few good copies of the Trekker key remain in circulation today. I happen to own one of the Trekker keys, ordered myself from the catalog around 20 years ago. Armed with calipers, 3D software, and a desire to replace my prop (which has begun to show noticeable wear, despite my best efforts to preserve it) with something more durable, I modelled this key based on it.
So, you can now order 3D prints of this key in a variety of metals and plastics right here on my Shapeways shop. (Shapeways, for those unfamiliar, 3D-prints users' designs in a variety of materials on industrial-grade printers.) What's more, if you have your own access to 3D-printing gear (or you'd just like the 3D source file to play with) I'm sharing that file freely here on Thingiverse so you can hack and print it yourself.
Add a wire loop and chain to wear your key in style, or just hide it in a cubbyhole above your TARDIS door.
Thanks for looking! Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.
Hello there. I'm Rob. This used to be my art blog until I left Tumblr; here's why you won't see me around here anymore. This is my website, you can find the rest of what I do from there. Here's a bunch of social media I do still use. Here's how to contact me directly if you wish, please feel free. All my original artwork posted on this Tumblr is released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Feel free to reuse, remix, etc. any of my stuff under the terms of this license.
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