Back when I was a kid I absolutely loved Darda cars — the kind of toy cars that wind up by pulling back. There are plastic tracks that you can build and the cars would go around those quite fast. Awesome stuff really.
I remember building the craziest setups with jumps and the lot. So much fun for a crazy kid! I also used to modify the cars by shaving off weight and painting them. Another funny way of playing with them was to race them in the bath tub — some quite amazing stunts were achieved that way.
A while back, for nostalgic reasons, I bought a couple of cars via eBay. Just to have as a little retro decorative piece. So I’ve had them sitting for a while just looking cool, but the other day I got the idea that I’d make a 3D model and some renderings out of one. Fast forward a few hours and here’s the result. I’m pretty pleased with the outcome. The whole thing is probably 95% accurate with only the internal mechanism missing.
Posted: September 7th, 2010 | Author:Jmy | Filed under:Random | Tags:Thoughts, Twitter | Comments Off
“Tweeting” is like the internet-age counterpart to eccentric people in the city walking around talking to themselves or randomly shouting things to whoever is nearby — sometimes there is someone listening (or can hear the person talking/shouting), but mostly it’s drivel and nonsense that will be completely ignored.
The same goes for Twitter — Most that is “tweeted” you just scroll past, the few things that seem interesting, or catch your eye, is for the most part just bullshit without meaning anyways.
Här är något för svensktalande besökare. Jesper Stern har precis gjort klart ett projekt som han jobbat på — en kortfilm. Jeppe har både skrivit manus, regisserat och skapat all motion graphics. Imponerande resultat!
A friend of mine posted this old clip on Facebook. I decided it needed to be shared. Not just because John Cleese is a great comedian in general, but more because this topic is as current as ever and he is so right. There’s nothing quite like social commentary/criticism through humor.
Here’s my good mate Flagz’ Sputnic edit that just got posted up on the Focalpoint site. Flagz knows how to have fun on a bike and it shows in this edit. He’s also not afraid of pulling out some rad moves on rails. Go Flagz!
Adrian Malmberg went to Barcelona with Eduards Zunda to spend some quality time on their bikes. Judging from this little edit it seems that they made the most of their time there. Some real high quality riding in here.
Turns out that only hours after the lost tapes edit was posted, this new one was uploaded. This edit features Mike Vockenson and Mat Lawton, edited by Manbeast over at DiversityBMX. Nice one!
In other Tempered news, Macca is getting back on his bike after a badly broken leg and some drama with the surgery. I’ve seen the scar, and it is not pretty. Manly, but not pretty… Good luck on the comeback!
Adrain Malmberg is definitely blowing up in the BMX world. He’s had a nice streak of great web edits, of which most would have been posted here at some point, and he’s been doing a lot of traveling and riding and also picked up a few really good sponsors on the way.
He recently scored an interview in the french mag Cream and now he’s the latest to be awarded a Fat Fav’s over at the Fat BMX site.
