michaelcthulhu

You probably don't want to see this.

Here's an unedited pic for all you enthusiasts: 

http://imgur.com/a/l8LO8

And the New Video is up. Giant Scimitar.

Towards the end of this video I threaten all of Patrons with seeing my bare arse. I may indeed do that if I can make it tasteful. 

August Sword Nearly Done!

I still have to weld all the pieces together, hopefully I can get that done tomorrow get the build video out by Sunday maybe. The injured hand slowed me down a little, but it's nearly back to full capacity. Everything's healed up, but I'm still having difficulty making a tight fist, and typing is frustrating cause the left hand is still a little slower than the right and it throws the rhythm off. ...

Is This Larp? Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt!

So it was my sons birthday this week and I started a random conversation about how when you turn 7 you have to defeat a birthday cyclops. I asked him what his plan was, given the size difference, and he said he would probably climb it, so he needed a harness for his sword so his hands would be free. Things kept getting more and more out of hand as his birthday approached, until finally he more or ...

Hardedge Video is Live.

Video is up in case you missed it!

A bit of nonsense.

A couple of hours after getting stitched up. Also check out that rad 80's title. Very proud of that photoshopping job. 

Hardedge is finished but there was a problem.

I'm going to spend tomorrow editing together all the Hardedge footage, I only have to put the leather on the handle and it's done, but I think I need one day at least of taking it a little slow so tomorrow is an editing day, even though the sword isn't finished, the finished video will be up Tuesday/Wednesday. 

Routine Traffic Stop

"Hey Kids, want to play cops and sovereign citizens?"

This video is probably too off base for my regular uploads, but dang it I thought it was funny and I had a blast making it so you guys can see it. 

Random Extra Bit just for you guys.

We filmed Rebellion smashing stuff LAST Sunday actually, but then a weird thing happened, in the Rebellion video I included an off hand Joke about getting a young man dressed as Dante down the local Greyhoud station, and it turns out I shouldn't make jokes like that online cause THIS Sunday a young man dressed as Dante is actually coming to the island. Since we already filmed all the smashing I'm ...

My Kids Wrecking stuff.

Smash Smash Smash

It's finally done and the video too!

The ETA on the video processing is 2 hours according to Youtube, but I wouldn't be surprised if it took longer than that in reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll8P1hH2mxs&feature=youtu.be

No charge this month, but video real soon.

Since this will be just the completed Rebellion this month and it was not looking like I was going to be finished today/yesterday, this month you should not receive a charge, however the sword is practically finished and I should have the sword finished by the 4th. I want to have it finished by the 4th kinda thing. 

Bonus Video because it is too hot outside.

Back From Ireland (there is swearing in the video)

So my buddy Podge (of designing the michaelcthulhu logo fame) is getting married next month, but it's too expensive for me + the family to go (his wife is Italian, wedding in Italy etc). What I could do however was show up for his "Stag Night" which was a 2 day hike through the wilderness. I decided to film some of it why not. 

And speaking of the Michaelcthulhu shirts, I recently got this ...

Rebellion's Not Finished Yet.

Here just for you guys is something to whet your whistle. My buddy is getting married so I have to go to Ireland, but I will finish Rebellion as soon as I get back. I lost the first 10 days of this month dealing with the Gunblade/computer breaking. If I had those ten days back Rebellion would be finished more or less (maybe, I thought Rebellion would be quick because I made it before, but it turns...

Live Now!

Go to youtube and sign in to ask questions!

LIVE Q&A STARTING SOON.

Click this link to join in the fun, 2pm to 3pm EST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpxVcTzLfdo

Test Live Stream

Thanks to those of you who helped with the test!. Actual stream will be 2pm - 3pm EST Saturday for Patrons only (or I guess anyone who has the link, it will be an "unlisted video" during the broadcast, and after the broadcast I will make it public). I will be at a Maker Faire thing, so I will be also fielding questions from meat space peoples. 

Here is a link for the real one in case y...

Video Finally Done!

This one was a doozy. I am still trying to get a handle on whether there would be enough of you guys around Saturday sometime between 10am-4pm EST to do a Patreon only live Q&A (Hybrid with the actual public, I'm going to be at a Mini Maker Faire here on Vineyard), so let me know if you are around!

Patreon Only Live Q&A?

So it's finally done. I am editing together the footage on the new computer, on Saturday there is a Maker Faire here on the Vineyard, I am hoping to do a Live Q&A thing from there if their internet is good enough. I don't have an exact time yet but it could be between 10am - 4pm GMT+4 (that's EST in american), an hour in there somewhere. If enough of you are available, I could make it a Patreo...

Gunblade Segment

As soon as the new computer arrives I will get cracking on editing the full version, I knew using this old computer wouldn't be great, but 360p? We're so spoiled, it's hard to believe there was a time when this was considered acceptable. I think the last time I used this version of the iMovie there was a fiddle with using a DivX encoder that managed to bump it up to a whopping 480p, but it's been ...

My Computer's Broke

My wife has been bugging me to buy a new computer for 6 months now.  It's working at the moment (how else did I upload this?) but if you don't hear from me, it's cause it died completely. (I guess I could log in on another computer etc and let you know, but this one dying is going to completely mess up my ability to edit video till I a new one arrives, which I will be ordering asap). The Hand...

QWOP

Random piece of content for you guys. Mostly an illustration of the follies of staying up till stupid O'clock. 

Bownish Vidgeyo

Here is a recording of a talk I gave in Ireland, exclusive for you guys. I was actually putting off editing this together cause I knew the audio wasn't great, it's legible, but it's not great, I'd recommend head phones if there's ANY other noise in the room. I know I had to wear a pair editing it. Also the camera kept crapping out on me. It was weird. For Tax reasons a stills camera can only recor...

FF8 Gunblade Part 1.

So I got back from Ireland on the 5th, and because of complications I didn't get the parts from Midcity till the 13th. I had this crazy plan that I was going to be able to get this all done in 1 month, but boy oh boy I was wrong. On top of that all the footage we had so far just getting the gunblade to the stage it's at (the mechanism working) amounts to an hour and forty five minutes! In case you...

In Honor of St.Patricks Day I guess.

The songs in order were: 

Loveless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrMjc4oz0mY

Super Hexagon Soundtrack (Chipzel) : 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jigRSeRYMzA

Warlords of Pez/Padre Pio:

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I am Back From Ireland.

So as a piece of Patreon Bonus content here is a tiny sword I made for my brother. I actually got all this footage the night before leaving for Ireland, but only edited it together the after getting back (yesterday).

The only major snaffu making it was as mentioned at the end of the Previous build video I had run out of TIG gas (Argon), so I welded it with the gas from the MIG (Argon/CO2 mix, no...

This Months Build is Early!

I am posting this from Ireland. Objectively this months sword was much simpler, so I have no idea why the video turned out to be an hour long. Maybe I was a little more exhaustive than usual. Who knows. Those of you who may be new, this will be the only Patreon sponsored video this month, I know some of you worry about multiple posts etc. There will be another shorter bonus video about the smaller...

Extra Bonus Bit.

Originally I was going to include this in the next build video, but I've decided it would be too distracting to include a brief guest appearance by the Sun Keeper in the next build video. One of the many reasons I don't upload in 10/15 minute sections, even though that would make me more money, is youtube is garbage at sequential content. It has no incentive to make it easy for you to find "part 4...

The Sun Keeper is Exporting.

The build video came in at 1 hour 30 minutes. It's exporting from imovie now, when I get up in the morning I will upload it to youtube directly. However long it takes my internet connection to upload 15 gigs.