Ever wonder what a Buzz Lightyear ice cream cone would look like? Well I did… does that make me weird or something? Stop looking at me like that!
You’re ugly.
This Buzz says, “Bite the bottom out of the cone like you did when you were a kid!”
I ran across an interesting site called World’s Biggest PAC-MAN and decided to create a Buzz Lightyear as a PAC MAN maze. I’m pretty happy with him.
As an added bonus… you can actually play PAC Man Buzz Lightyear!
This Buzz says, “Wakka wakka wakka.” (what else?)
There are certain characters who you look at and can just see Buzz Lightyear. The Juggernaut, those potato-headed bad guys from Doctor Who… and the Big Daddy from Bioshock. I have stayed away from these characters for that very reason. It’s harder to make the conversion than you’d think because no matter how much from one character you add… they still look a lot like they did before. Needless to say I’m not super impressed with how this one turned out… but he still counts as number 141 out of 365!
This Buzz says, “Muuuuuuuaaaaahhhhh.”
You know what your life has been missing? A pancake in the shape of Buzz Lightyear’s head. Well, no longer! You are so welcome.
Today’s entry was inspired by the amazing pancake artwork over at Jim’s Pancakes. Go check out what he’s doing over there.
This Buzz says, “What goes best with a poly-carbonate space suit? Syrup, cinnamon and sugar, fruit, jelly or peanut butter?”
We all know that one kid… the only thing that is maturing on him is his ability to grow specks of hair on his face. Poor guy. I imagine that Buzz’s over-the-top personality might be in response to a pretty tough social life in High School. That and someone suggested I do an awkward teen Buzz.
This Buzz says, “Prom is stupid anyway.”
I was inspired by the work of Fabian Gzlez who recently released the ABC Superheros graphic. Fabian decorated each letter of the alphabet with the costume of a hero who’s name began with that letter. Naturally when it was time to make my Buzz, I chose the letter B. I could have just drawn it out… but I wanted something to hang on the wall. It was difficult mimicking the clean style when painting by hand. I tried to make the lines as perfect as I could.
This Buzz says, “Better be brilliant because boldness be brash but benign.
I went ahead and painted the Buzz carving from Monday. This might be considered cheating… but I did a lot of research and had to learn how to paint and finish wood for this to be possible. So on Monday I presented the figure… and today I present the paint job.
This Buzz says, “Momma says I got a laaaazy eye.!”
I made this out of Mustard. You’re looking at it right now… making a judgment. But you can’t truly appreciate this one until you are in the room with it. This Buzz is easily the smelliest one I’ve done. Mustard doesn’t necessarily smell bad… it just smells too much.
This Buzz says, “Next time someone hands you an exploding ham, I’m gonna pass the mustard!”
After many weeks, and after many nicks and cuts, I put the finishing touches on my hand-carved wooden Buzz Lightyear figure. I added individually carved arms and pinned them to the main figure with carved dowels. They move.
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Buzz Lightyear as an Easter Egg. What could be better? I really wanted to create the egg in the traditional way… with egg dye… but after the initial dip for the skin color, the shell wouldn’t take any other colors. I had to switch to markers.
The egg is hollow. I hollowed it out a couple of weeks ago. Why? Two reasons. One, because I wanted to keep it forever… and hard-boiled eggs do eventually go bad. Two, an empty egg has long been the “prestige” at the end of a Sunday School lesson referred to as “Resurrection Eggs”. Teachers use plastic eggs filled with various items (small cross, nails, cloth, etc) to teach and remind children about the Passion of Jesus Christ. The last egg is empty… which reminds us that though Christ did die for our sins, he is no longer dead and his tomb, though full, became empty on Easter Sunday.
This Buzz says, “I’m Agnostic”.
