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Pumpkins!

Postby Sable » 27 Oct 2007, 20:05

Hey y'all.

Got a cool pumpkin? Post a picture!

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I'm proud of this, even though it's not 100% what I wanted - it's raining pretty damn hard outside and I was trying to get things fast before my camera sucked up too much water.

13 second exposure, no Photoshop tricks.

Edited to add some details:

I transferred the Aperture Science logo to the pumpkin with a printed cutout after repeated attempts to doodle it failed utterly. I carved it with one of those cheesy pumpkin knives that are basically jigsaw blades with handles - they work really, really great for stuff like this.

The "Portals" on each side were jigsawed out, and then I pinned some bits of white paper in them - you can barely see the edge of one of them through the left side of the AS logo.

The left side of the pumpkin was illuminated by the blue LEDs on my Surefire Kroma light, propped up on boxes. It's to the left of the frame.

The right side was my Surefire E2E on a box, shining through an orange CD case. It, naturally, is to the right of the frame.

All interior light is bleed-through from the flashlights.
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Postby Unclever title » 27 Oct 2007, 21:23

"Contact with the Aperture Science High Energy Pumpkin TM can and has in the past cause permanent disability such as vaporization."

Well that? That there is just cool.
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Postby Cake » 27 Oct 2007, 22:13

Do not look directly into the beam as it is being fired.

That is a hella nice job. The day is yours.
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Postby Alja-Markir » 27 Oct 2007, 22:38

One thing bothers me. I can't find a good picture of it, but on the Combine Turrets, there is a strange circular symbol that is different than the normal Combine logo.

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You can kinda see it there, the yellow mark that looks like a paint-brush was dragged in an incomplete circle.

Am I the only one who thinks Aperture Science may have something to do with that?

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Postby Sable » 27 Oct 2007, 23:51

And another one!

This guy is going to have a really bad day tomorrow night - there are those of you out there who I'm sure can figure out what's going to happen to him.

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Come on, the rest of you lot! I have like six more that I'll be finishing by tomorrow afternoon!
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Postby Cake » 27 Oct 2007, 23:57

I'm at work at the moment. I'm pretty sure there is an unwritten rule about carving pumpkins at work. Also, I don't know what's going to happen to him.
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Postby Sable » 28 Oct 2007, 00:45

AND YET ANOTHER

You'll be seeing this guy again.

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Three more left. At least one more is going to be interesting.
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Postby CyberTractor » 28 Oct 2007, 10:16

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Postby Sable » 28 Oct 2007, 10:57

See below...
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Postby meisbored » 28 Oct 2007, 10:59

Pretty sure CyberTractor didn't make that, I've seen it elsewhere...
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Postby CyberTractor » 28 Oct 2007, 11:06

Yeah, it's not mine.

I want to do something like that, though.
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Postby Sable » 28 Oct 2007, 11:07

http://www.extremepumpkins.com/terpum.html

Yeah, I kind of thought I'd seen it before too - but it was your post that made it come to the front of my brain.

This was kind of for pumpkins that you've carved yourself - if you've GOT a Property Defender, I'd love to see it, though!
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Postby emma » 28 Oct 2007, 11:12

My pumpkin didn't turn out amazingly because a) I didn't have a huge amount of time (I have had a mad busy weekend) and b) I had really lousy tools. I was using kitchen knives, which really didn't work well for doing such a small design.

And Graham, I am going to try and light it, but I have neither candles nor a flashlight - though there IS a large hole in the back from me carving out a rotting part, so maybe I will just put it in front of my desk light or something.
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Re: Pumpkins!

Postby tak197 » 28 Oct 2007, 11:24

Sable wrote:Hey y'all.

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That's REALLY cool.
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Postby Sable » 28 Oct 2007, 11:46

Thanks!
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Postby Sable » 28 Oct 2007, 14:07

Inspired by my upstairs neighbors...

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You'll be seeing this guy again soon, too!
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Postby emma » 28 Oct 2007, 14:23

why do you keep saying we will see them again

what do they have to do with LRR
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Postby Sable » 28 Oct 2007, 14:30

emma wrote:why do you keep saying we will see them again

what do they have to do with LRR


More than you can imagine!

And they just keep coming! This one is from my better half, though.

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Postby jtaylor » 28 Oct 2007, 16:21

From last year.
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Postby Alja-Markir » 28 Oct 2007, 16:35

Sable, I know your dark secret!

The LRR 2003 Halloween Special! Featuring men with pumpkins on their heads!

Yes, no?

I've not actually seen it, as I have yet to get the Season 1 DVD, but it is mentioned in their Year 1 Retrospective video.

~Alja~

Addendum: Also, jtaylor, that's Old Timey Strongbad, no?
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Postby Pattmyn » 28 Oct 2007, 16:47

Well its not so much carving, but I have two pumpkin related goodness.

1) Pumpkin Smoke Bombs
http://www.instructables.com/id/Pumpkin-bombs!_1/

Great smoke screens for Halloween goodness!
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2) Snap-o-Lantern
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article ... apolantern

Tiny pumpkins that will eat your soul!
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Postby tak197 » 28 Oct 2007, 18:13

Alja-Markir wrote:Image

You can kinda see it there, the yellow mark that looks like a paint-brush was dragged in an incomplete circle.

Am I the only one who thinks Aperture Science may have something to do with that?

~Alja~


If you watch the end credits to Portal while the song is playing, you see that symbol on the side just as you hear the computer sing "Maybe Black Mesa/That was a joke. Ha ha. Fat Chance." My guess is that it is the Black Mesa logo.
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Postby Lord Chrusher » 28 Oct 2007, 18:31

This is the Black Mesa logo
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Postby Alja-Markir » 28 Oct 2007, 19:19

Black Mesa was initially investigating Xen, the nearest dimensional "border world". After the residence cascade and the attempts to close the portals, they had to send Freeman to kill the Nihilanth on Xen which was holding the portal open.

The Combine came later, after Black Mesa was already nuked during the coverup. Those turrets realistically shouldn't have anything to do with Black Mesa at all. Moreover, they are very much a Combine style design, so the mark to me remains a mystery.

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Postby Sable » 28 Oct 2007, 19:57

[Igor]Croth-pothted from the LRRCast thread.[/Igor]

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