A blog of mainly papercrafts but also lot of other stuff
This is really interesting exercise of what hoops you really have jump trough if you want to visit Disney Land and stay incognito by Janet Vertesi:
So how many of us would really go through all that. It is bizarre that we would have do all that work to visit a tourist resort but it is really scary that kind of surveillance is all around us and if we really want to keep our privacy we should do all that every day.
This is a little companion piece for this bigger story and it is a great read too:
A little glimpse of what I’m doing. This is the cockpit part of this Gundam with control joysticks and all.
Somebody is thinking something really profound.
Lingering on 80’s Japan vibes. These are great visual videos for throwing you to that period of history. Some NSFW visuals.
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Happy Mother’s Day especially all those cat moms out there!
Yeah this is what I want to do too all day.
This is a great take. I read these comments of Hinton earlier and I got the feeling he is trying to pose himself as modern day Oppenheimer a little too much after he made millions of dollars of it.
My own adventures in AI revolution consist of couple hours in image creator app creating an all cat power metal band and couple of minutes in Chat GPT which made me a fantasy story of a Finnish politician rescuing a princess – it wasn’t really good and I wouldn’t buy it as a novel and not even borrowing it from the library.
Yeah so my opinion about AI or these language models is that everything surrounded it is mainly hype but it will come commonplace eventually as part of every day life and work. I can see it being useful in excel as it would make all the formatting and tables by just asking it nicely.
This article by Cat Zheung from Pitchfork.com is the most definitive article about City pop:
https://pitchfork.com/features/article/the-endless-life-cycle-of-japanese-city-pop/
It is a great read. Highly recommended! It opens up my own fascination of this silly music. I have been fascinated with Japanese city pop music for about 10 years ever since the almighty YouTube algorithm recommended this weird time capsule of a music to me. I’ve found that it is the most suitable background music for working. The words are jibberish for non-Japanese speaking person like me. There are weird choices of English words during the chorus. But it is great. You don’t have to listen the words – you can just let it flow in the background. Has it increased my creative or productive output? Not. But I still put on some YouTube city pop playlist when I’m working. And I am transported to drive some convertible Toyota along Japanese coastline during the height of Japanese bubble economy.
My first touch point of city pop was of course Plastic Love but my favorite city pop song is this one:
So how to make great papercraft gundam models.
First you build preferentially PG grade plastic gundam model. Model or grade doesn’t make a difference but everybody loves RX-78-2 so let’s go with that. PG grede is great for added mobility.
Then when you have built it and cleaned up all the plastic spruces and put on every decal you can just let it do the whole work and just sit back and take occasionally photos of the process.
The Gundam model just goes to work and figures out itself what needs to be done. It will collect all the parts and starts putting it all together.
Other than that there is not much for the process. The plastic little gundam model does all the work. It will cut the pieces. It will fold the pieces. It will glue the pieces together. It doesn’t rest until it is done. It doesn’t even have any need for Pepakura app. All you have to do is to print the papers in right color.
No kidding. All true.
Our Jaska in a rocking chair.