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Minecraft Steve Head

james — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:47:28 +0000

Steve’s head from Minecraft created for 8yo’s Book Character Parade a few weeks ago

Click here to download a PDF of Steve’s head if you’d like to print and create your own.

The size of Steve’s head was determined by how big a image I could be sure to fit to an A3 sized page with margins. I created the faces in Omnigraffle by filling 33.75mmx33.75mm squares with colours picked from the original bitmap used to skin Steve’s head in the game.

I made the 27x27x27cm cardboard box by cutting up a bunch of other cardboard boxes and sticky taping them together. To get it to fit 8yo’s head correctly the insides were padded with cut to fit polystyrene.

Updated 2011-11-23: as requested by Pete, versions of the PDF sans the black background. As the pixels are NOT flush up against each other there will always be a grid pattern of some colour – this was intentional. Anyways, here is:

a steve head with a white background, and,
a steve head with a pink background.

danger, zombies

james — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:06:48 +0000

I have a poster/faux sign on my door at work with the text “Danger Zombies Run.”

I’m not sure where the original came from but at the time I thought it was pretty funny.

This google search will show you what I’m talking about.

Anyways, I got bored and made my own sign the other day.

I thought I’d share it with you.

Here’s a nice high res pdf of it:

danger.zombies.pdf (~10KB)

Enjoy.

Danger, Zombies. Keep Out PDF by James Christopher Murty is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

abandoned technology

james — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:13:35 +0000

a Flickr photoset inspired by my neighbourhood’s abandonment of yesterday’s hi tech toys

I’m going to Graceland, Graceland, in Memphis Tennessee

james — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:18:30 +0000

Photographer Chris Glass posted a wonderful photo essay of his trip to Graceland in Memphis in July 2010.

I made a similar pilgrimage during my first trip around the USA back in 1997. Chris and I have taken some photos of the same locations from similar angles around the site. It’s kinda interesting to compare them (not the quality — he’s a much better photographer and I was using a crappy old Konica 35mm). Nothing much has changed.

Graceland now (2010 © Chris Glass)

Graceland then (1997 © James Christopher Murty)

Piano Room now (2010 © Chris Glass)

Music Room then (1997 © James Christopher Murty)

TV Room now (2010 © Chris Glass)

TV Room then (1997 © James Christopher Murty)

Grave now (2010 © Chris Glass)

Grave then (1997 © James Christopher Murty)

the third watertank

james — Mon, 03 May 2010 05:47:57 +0000

has been installed

rainbow lorikeets

james — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:41:43 +0000

contrails over Coogee

james — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:23:54 +0000

I’m quite happy with this shot.

I took it with my iPhone Saturday night as we walked down Arden Street to Coogee on our way to dinner at a friend’s place.

happy aircon is happy

james — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:15:29 +0000

what are you looking at buddy?

james — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:00:17 +0000

just keep walking ralph

PumpkinDAY2009/Happy Halloween y’all

james — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:49:06 +0000

Update: 2009-11-03
btw, the pumpkin went bad

cool lego kitchen

james — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:23:02 +0000

So this lego kitchen

is considerably cooler than our lego kitchen.

Nice work.

Turkeyday 2008

james — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:43:36 +0000

the global financial crisis is finger licken good!

james — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:05:15 +0000

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!

awesome father’s day card

james — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:30:29 +0000

Connor made me an awesome father’s day card

rainbow lorikeets eating sunflower seeds

james — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:47:44 +0000