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Doctor Popular writes: Today is 24 Hour Comic Book Day, meaning artists all over the world will be attempting to write and draw their own 24 page comics in 24 consecutive hours. Nearly 40 artists will be attempting the challenge in San Francisco and we’ll be live broadcasting the entire time… if you like watching […]
We recently had a question from a reader about this prop. “Connie” wrote in wanting to know how to replicate the mechanism that, in the movie, is used to unlock The Book’s cover. Never having seen The Mummy, I went into research mode and enqueued it from Netflix. Then I watched it. Big mistake.
But, you know, to each his or her own. And “The Book of the Dead,” with its ornate clasps and intricate star-shaped key, is admittedly an awesome prop. The scene Connie is referring to, I believe, occurs at almost exactly one hour into the “Deluxe Edition” cut of the film, and shows the intrepid but remarkably foolish archeologists inserting the aforementioned star-shaped key into a correspondingly star-shaped opening in the book’s cover, turning it, and thereby releasing the spring-loaded cover clasps and, with them, all manner of unpleasant whatnot.
So I started Googling around, looking for dweebs enthusiasts that might have already built such a thing. And while I did not find any working mechanical replicas of the prop, I did discover the remarkably beautiful static replica shown in the photo at the top of this post by Jeff Stelter of Stelter Creative Woodworks.
I have documented my obsession with olive oil cake on this blog before, but this olive oil cake recipe from Kitchen Sidecar takes it to a new level by adding rye flour and stone fruit, another passion of mine (the stone fruit, not the rye, although I love the weighty taste that must add to […]
Continuing a great tradition, the New England Wireless and Steam Museum is hosting the Yankee Steam-Up, where you can see steam engines large and small, stirling engines, running antique engines and vehicles, and much more. There is also a Marconi-era wireless museum with fascinating equipment from the early days of radio, including a Massie Station […]
Pan Roasted Chicken Breasts with Cran-Apple Sauce By Katie Goodman With summer produce at its end and cooler temperatures bringing cravings for heartier meals than those of summer, it’s time to start thinking about fall! It may seem that it’s time to say goodbye to those summer meals that are characteristically fresh and fast. On […]
Let’s take a trip to way back in the day, October 2006. I had just begun experimenting with tutorials. I was making a Halloween costume for myself, and thought that I would just snap some quick pictures of the process and throw them up on Flickr. It was my first “self-published” project. The costume was […]
The sponsors of this year’s Halloween contest will be providing us with a number of promotional freebies to give away throughout October. First up for grabs is a PIC32 Starter Kit, shown above, with a retail value of $50. Here’s the product detail page. To enter, leave a comment describing what cool project you’d make with it. The winner will be announced next Friday, October 9.
