By John Walker on October 16th, 2007 at 12:57 am.
So here’s a little something I like to call, Project FreezerCube.
(aka: Project Oh Please Someone Help Me I’m Losing My Mind)
Click to see the true madness.
I’ve decided my freezer must become a Weighted Companion Cube. Why? What sort of question is Why? Because it’s white, almost cuboid, and I murdered my last one.
It begins with an ordinary freezer.
Too ordinary. And a slightly less than ordinary trip to the art supply shop for some acrylic paints.
Then tonight, friends departed and the new episode of Dexter watched, there I was making a quick sketch of a Weighted Companion Cube.
There was really no pause between this, and pulling the freezer out and drawing all over it with a pencil.
The paint doesn’t sit as easily on the surface as the lady in the art shop promised me it would. It’s going to take a couple of coats. And so this is as far as I reached this evening, constrained by ludicrous requirements like working during the day. However, I shall return to it very soon.
Here’s the current state.
16/10/2007 at 01:27 Lh'owon says:
That is so awesome. :D
And yea, you need help.
16/10/2007 at 01:39 simonkaye says:
Well. Look who can draw, all of a sudden.
16/10/2007 at 01:45 Arathain says:
All of a sudden I thought Brian’s Guide was really good.
http://briansguide.net
Link for those who haven’t encountered it yet.
16/10/2007 at 02:06 Arathain says:
There should be a question mark between ‘All of a sudden’ and ‘I thought’. Rather like:
All of a sudden? I thought Brian’s Guide was really good.
16/10/2007 at 02:31 simonkaye says:
Fine.
Well. Look who can draw.
16/10/2007 at 03:39 The_B says:
John’s Weighted Companion Cube is, in fact, not alive, and will not try to stab you. It will however, attempt to serve you a lovely piece of chilled cake. And cream.
16/10/2007 at 05:04 Brant says:
What about beer?
16/10/2007 at 06:07 SirNuke says:
Prediction: by the time more (Valve-official) Portal content comes out, “Weighted Companion Cube” will become the most popular category on RPS.
Yeah, laugh now, but just wait….
16/10/2007 at 08:38 Seniath says:
“Prediction: by the time more (Valve-official) Portal content comes out, “Weighted Companion Cube” will become the most popular category on RPS.”
Moreso than Peggle? Who’d have thunk it!
16/10/2007 at 09:48 dartt says:
Did you know RPS is the SECOND RESULT for a google search for Weighted Companion Cube?!
Awesome project John!
16/10/2007 at 10:00 Jonty says:
Damn it, you stole my idea. What am I going to do with the washing machine now?
16/10/2007 at 10:14 Man Raised By Puffins says:
“Did you know RPS is the SECOND RESULT for a google search for Weighted Companion Cube?!”
That’s disappointing, it used to be number one. Somewhat disturbingly, RPS is /still/ the number one result for ‘Weighted Companion Cube slash fiction’.
The project is looking good so far. Are you going the whole hog and adding bits of foam/polystyrene for the corner/edge bits or leaving it as just painted on?
16/10/2007 at 10:31 Evo says:
Hmm a contest between Peggle and the Weighted Companion Cube on RPS?
16/10/2007 at 10:36 FaceOmeter says:
This is getting serious
16/10/2007 at 11:06 phuzz says:
hmm, flatmate away, washing machine broken, some free time… I think I’ve stolen an idea!
16/10/2007 at 13:27 The_B says:
“Hmm a contest between Peggle and the Weighted Companion Cube on RPS?”
I fear the next logical progression is for someone to take a white laptop that can run Peggle, and then mod it to look like WCC. We would all become mindless, cake-loving-extreme-fever zombies.
16/10/2007 at 14:25 Evo says:
I am using my laptop right now with paper and printers in easy reach……must not do it!
16/10/2007 at 14:28 Adam Hepton says:
Surely the next logical thing is to start weighing everything in WCCs, like file sizes are now universally measured in Peggles.
16/10/2007 at 14:31 Evo says:
Or have them both as a form of measurement!
e.g.
1 WCC = 10 Peggles
I declare myself, a genius!
17/10/2007 at 00:00 Alexander says:
Is your freezer talking yet?
17/10/2007 at 00:03 Monkfish says:
What happens when the weighted companion freezer breaks? Have you decided how you should explain the decoration to Mr. FixYourFreezer?
17/10/2007 at 02:53 john says:
i think “because i can” is a perfectly good reason.
17/10/2007 at 07:17 Adam Hepton says:
When it breaks, you incinerate it. It’s the only course of action.
27/10/2007 at 06:46 Adam Henson says:
Found it via google, awesome idea! Dripping with irony.
Lh’owon says:
Nice name, Vid Boi ;)
Adam Hepton says:
You too!
31/01/2008 at 08:40 DoomMunky says:
I love this so much I want to die a little.