I’ve been having a go at making an armature for  my stop motion character Tim Foyle.  As I am a man of little wealth I am trying to do it as cheaply as possible.
Stuff I Used

General purpose garden wire
Plumber’s epoxy putty
Electric Drill
Pliers

How I Did It
I pulled off a good length of wire, folded it in [...]

This is the first full time lapse video that I’ve posted featuring a large blob of Science Putty (similar to Silly Putty).  The great thing about this stuff is that it behaves like a solid, but over time it flows like a liquid — making it perfect for time lapse experiments.
This video was made by [...]

Where does the time go?  El Struthio’s Stuff has lain dormant for over a year.  Dormant, but not dead.  I have plans (cue evil maniacal laughter).
I’ve recently become interested in stop motion animation and time lapse and I thought that I’d re-purpose El Struthio’s Stuff to explore this new interest.  I’ll be posting my own [...]

Image by photobunny via Flickr

I had a great idea (well I think it’s great and it’s my blog so I’m entitled to my opinions) for a new Murder Mystery Thriller book/movie/merchandise range today.
The killer dispatches his or her victims and then sells trophies (a locket, a mobile phone, a hair-slide, a watch – that kind [...]

The Telegraph reports:
The US Army and Navy have both hired experts in the ethics of building machines to prevent the creation of an amoral Terminator-style killing machine that murders indiscriminately.
By 2010 the US will have invested $4 billion in a research programme into “autonomous systems”, the military jargon for robots, on the basis that they [...]

Helvetireader is a userscript that gives you a ’stripped to the basics’ minimalistic look for Google Reader and has been primarily designed for those of us who read feeds in the extended view and use keyboard shortcuts.
It works with Firefox with Greasemonkey, Opera, Google Chrome (Nightly Build only) or any Webkit browser (Safari, Omniweb etc.) [...]

I love Twitter but, as with most things, there’s always room for improvement.
If you use Firefox you can use a add-on called Greasemonkey to customize just about any site using scripts.  One of the things I like about Greasemonkey scripts is you can install them and try them out without restarting Firefox.
Here are six Greasemonkey [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time on TED.com recently — six hours non-stop the other night!  One of the videos that I really enjoyed was this one by Sir Ken Robinson entitled Do schools kill creativity?

Firstly it’s a highly entertaining performance — better than many stand-up comedians.  Most importantly it carries an extremely important [...]

I’ve noticed that the WWW is starting to disappear.  Type www.twitter.com into your address bar and you’ll end-up at twitter.com – no dub dub dub.  The same applies to FriendFeed.
Is WWW an endangered species?  Is it destined to become the appendix of the internet? It’s there, but no-one uses it and you can remove it [...]

We are a stick based society rather than a carrot based one – that is we punish bad bad behaviour rather than rewarding good behaviour.
Of course, serious crimes should be punished. What about other aspects of our lives though?
The problem is people don’t like being told what to do or what not to do.  [...]