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It's rather late, but I finally uploaded the images from this years village setup. The images are not as good previous years because I just didn't have the time to set up the shots. Ah well. I'll do better in 2011. New images are ready for browsing. I've also updated […]

Finally updated 2010 Dept56 village images

Sat April 23, 2011 in General tagged dept56 / dept56 village / dickens / Dickens Village / north pole series / village / village images

Despite the obvious geek bent of my blog it would appear, based on web stats, that once a year I'm far more popular for my Deptartment 56 village setups than I am for Linux and open source. The spike in visitors isn't huge but its obvious and they're all headed […]

Less Geek, More Art

Fri November 27, 2009 in Art and Graphics / dept 56 / General tagged Department 56 / dept56 / dickens / Geek / Lemax / village

I’m a constant tinkerer on my computers. While I hate system administration I like to experiment with things. But a computer is a virtual world. What you get is visual and (in some cases) auditory. You don’t get a hands on feeling. You don’t really build something substantial. I think […]

makezine.tv: Getting my fix of hands on projects

Tue January 06, 2009 in dept 56 / Holiday lighting tagged colorado springs / dept 56 / dept56 / disney / disneyworld / electric light parade / electrical lighting / graphics / holiday / holiday theme / Make Magazine / makezine.tv / mickey and friends (updated 6046 days ago)

I finally got some time to put up galleries of the Dept56 dioramas we built this year. Each year gets a bit more involved. This year I spent extra effort building home made lighting out of parts from Radio Shack. I’ve got galleries of the Dickens Village and the North […]