Something Plastic

So that Iron Man figure I was raving on about a few weeks ago turned up. After a week in transit from Hong Kong it arrived in surprisingly good condition and even more surprising was its authenticity. EBay can quite often traffic fraudulent items, even something as obscure as a 'San Diego Comic Con 2008 Exclusive Iron Man Mighty Mugg' but I was lucky and got the real thing. Certainly a mouthful and certainly a very nice, shiny, well made figurine that stands shoulder to shoulder with Boba Fett atop my tower of video games and Nendoroid's. I haven't taken a good enough (or Flickr worthy) photo of Iron Man yet but as soon as I do I will post it on this here blog page.

Mighty Muggs: Collection Initiation

This was rather unexpected. My brother returned home from town and brought back a Mighty Mugg, for me! Boba Fett, king of bounty hunters, is the first Mighty Mugg character to start off my collection. I thought it was going to be the SDCC Iron Man that I mentioned in my previous blog but I'm still waiting for that to arrive. 

Guilty

Further to publicly admitting my new obsession with Mighty Muggs, I caved and blew £21 on a San Diego Comic Con Exclusive Iron Man Mighty Mugg. I shall eagerly await my very first Mighty Mugg but I have a horrible feeling that I'll end up collecting them all. Below is a comparison I put together between the two Iron Man Mighty Muggs. I have to keep looking at this to validate spending over twenty of my finest Sterling on a 6 inch (non-articulating) plastic figurine.

IT'S A TRAP!

That 'learn Photoshop in a week' kind of failed didn't it? I achieved what I really needed to do though which was to use Photoshop everyday, which I have since I started this blog. What have I been doing though? Well, I recently became obsessed with Hasbro's almost-urban-but-still-mainstream Mighty Muggs. I've become especially obsessed with the Admiral Ackbar Mighty Mugg, which then led to me getting all nostalgic about Star Wars. Of course this resulted in a vector drawing which I have posted below, enjoy.

This Blog Is Poorly Written

Going back to the Tate Modern after a couple of years was actually quite disappointing. Modern art doesn't speak to me like it once did, back in the days that I admired the work of Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst. No, not anymore do I spend more than five seconds looking at an individual 'work of art', it has just gotten old and seems to bore me. After half an hour of walking around the various exhibitions and not laying eye on anything of much interest I headed to the Tate Modern shop, located near the turbine hall entrance, to perhaps pick up a postcard so I didn't have to go away completely disheartened. As I walked towards the postcard rack I passed books and clothing and art equipment for sale, I lifted my head and looked back in the direction I was going and made direct eye contact with Batman Begins/Dark Knight actor Cillian Murphy. I saw fear in his eyes. Fear of the tall, clumsy, messy haired boy walking by him? No, but probably fear of the modern art freaks that surrounded him, his child and his wife. It took a few seconds to register what I had just witnessed, by which time I was so far into the shop of overpriced merchandise that it was far too late to say anything to him. I looked back but Mr Murphy was already headed for the exit, taking some sunglasses from his pocket and hiding his Hollywood fame behind black shades. The highlight of going to the Tate Modern was not the art, but the Batman fighting, zombie evading, sun igniting Irish actor Cillian Murphy.

All hail DJ Atomica

I was checking out the new bikes in Burnout Paradise the other day when DJ Atomica's voice started booming out of my speakers. He told tale of construction work going on at Angus Wharf and advised players to seek it out from the top of the multi-story car-park there. I did exactly as the Paradise City Overlord instructed and I discovered a bridge under construction that seemed as though it was heading in the direction of another island on the horizon. EA/Criterion are treating their fanbase very well with heaps of free content, most recent of which was the ability to race motorbikes and play with a day/night cycle. Word is that they're working on a new island and aircraft at the moment. 

Cloning

Truth is I've been a little occupied at the moment so I haven't been able to pay attention to the Photoshop tutorial, I have been using Photoshop to edit photos though...

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