Get Your Motor Runnin', Get Out on the Highway!

There were two recent trips I took.  One was to see a temple, Wat Hong Thong, built over the ocean...

and the other was to Kanchanaburi Province to see the beauty of Central Thailand.

I went with a colleague of mine from school.  I thought it would be fun to recreate some album covers featuring motorcycles, since we had them.  I haven't made them yet, but here are the covers we used for inspiration:

Fisheye Lens for iPad Mini

I don't know what it is about a fisheye lens, but it sure looks cool.  Check out these photos of my trip through the subway, in a taxi, and looking down onto Bangkok traffic.  If you were the curator for an art museum, which one would you choose to enlarge to 30' x 60' for the exhibit's entrance?

Jabba the Hutt

Backseat Driver

Marble Legs

ATM Fishbowl

Atari Escalators

Traffic in the Round

Big Sky

Fisheye

"Me" Limited Edition

About 4 months ago, I noticed this shop across from Siam Paragon.  The sign read, "3D Printing" and I looked through the window and said to myself, "Yeah, I'd do that someday."  Inside were tiny human figures standing on displays around the store.

That someday was about a week ago when I went back to the shop and placed an order for one Limited Edition "Me".  I didn't prepare my wardrobe or hair, nor did I think about how I wanted to be preserved in resin.  I just took a look around at the other figurines and then came up with the jumping pose that I have taken in other parts of the world.

I'm sure they all run around the store at night.

This is the owner of the store.  You can get a figurine
made from 6cm up to 14 cm!  2.54 cm = 1 inch.
Mine will be 9 cm., the second from the left.

Here's the owner again, holding a business card.
Each figurine is hand painted after it is printed in the 3D replicator.

Here you can see my shorts and calves appearing
on the screen as a technician scans them.  I am being
digitized right before my eyes, pixel by pixel.
Kinda like Mike T.V. and the Wonkavision!

My hands were raised up for about 4 minutes, then I had to rest
them on my head because they felt like tree logs.  Here they are scanning my butt.

It takes about 15 to 30 days to complete the figurine.  Mine may not be ready before I leave for L.A. at the end of June.  If you would like to order a copy of "Me" for your own voodoo doll collection, let me know and I'll have them print one for you.  I asked if they can do a life-size model, but the printer is not that large.