Peter’s Blog V2

Here’s to being awake in another class all day (with a pen and a pad of paper).  Without Snoopy, we’ve got the elk on the Hartford’s logo:

Sitting in a classroom all day with a pen, a stack of paper, and a MetLife Snoopy doll can produce surprising results.  Here I present to you: Life of Snoopy:

Here’s an amazing artist on the New York Times blog, making abstract representations of NYC with few simple LEGO blocks:

A lot of the stuff is not really NYC specific, but some jokes are probably hard to get if you don’t live in the city.

The guy apparently has tons of good humor, but nothing cracks me up as much as the “worst building” below.  Why?  Because I know exactly what he’s talking about and can’t agree more!

I think the Grace Plaza is a pretty ugly building in NYC but it doesn’t suck nearly as much as the silly white one by the Brooklyn Bridge (1 Brooklyn Bridge Plaza with the Verizon logo).

For the most part, I’m not an artistic person.  But I recently found the following photography by Martin Klimas and was thoroughly impressed:

Click here to see more.

On all those nights when people around the globe stayed up to watch the Beijing Olympics games, I lost sleep making the Beijing Olympics mascots - the Fuwas:

Even though the project started concurrently with the Opening Ceremony, it wasn’t complete until after the game was over and city workers sweeped every street in Beijing 5 more times.  If I had known this to be 60+ hour time commitment, I might not have gotten it started.  Sigh.  Yeah.  I’m really slow when it comes to paper crafts.

It was a fun memorable process, though, and it showed what true fan (nerd) I was.  I also believe that these five dolls go well with the five Olympics Coke cans:

Just for the heck of it, the following is my documentation of the whole process that took a month and one day:

Want your own?  Get it here!

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