COPPED. Batarang Throwing Stars. I’m more than aware this makes me a geek… Wanna fight about it? I need practice with these things anyway… With enough hard work you might find me in a dark alley busting out street lights in slow motion. 

COPPED.  Sensü brush/stylus for iPad. I hated my iPad stylus, and I had been hearing rumors about the Sensü looking and feeling like a real brush when using it on iPad, so I went and bought one. The control is UNREAL. I still haven’t quite figured out how an ACTUAL brush works on touch surface screens, but it’s not for me to figure out. I’ll just enjoy the fact that it does work. 

COPPED. Iron Man thumb drive. I’m not sure when it began but apparently I have a growing addition to character thumb drives… 

COPPED. Original Chuck Snapback. I had never heard of Original Chuck before but their hats are pretty cool, so I bought one. 

COPPED. PINS. While at the State Fair this year I wandered into one of those mom and pop booth expo things and found a guy that had HUNDREDS of pins… I looked through quite a few of them and came home with these. 

COPPED (Kinda). Last weekend as I was visiting Sam’s family, her dad who had just recently returned from Tennessee, handed me a tan leather bag, and a couple of leather cylindrical cases that he had gotten in a “box of crap” in a yard sale there and asked me if I knew anything about them and if they still worked. I opened them to find a Nikkormat and a couple of lenses. I played with it for a couple of minutes before determining the camera did indeed still work. There was no film in the body, but there were unused rolls in the leather bag. Of course I popped in the rolls and began shooting. I was curious to see what type of images this thing would produce. I ran through a roll of 24 exposures, and took it to Walgreens for development. The images had a vintage feel, and I LOVED them… hated what my impatience decided to shoot, but loved the feel of the photos. He told me since he couldn’t do anything with it, that I could have it. So you are looking at the proud new owner of a mid 60s Japanese Nikkormat (which would later become Nikon) film camera and multiple lenses. I’m typically a Canon guy, but you can’t turn down a free camera, Nikon or not.

COPPED. Plastic Cell Heisenberg sculpt. 1 of 150. As in I got the FIRST one of the set. Yeah.. I’m pretty much awesome. Hand sculpted figure of everyone’s favorite Meth Cook. the detail on this thing is INCREDIBLE, and that includes the packaging. The photos definitely don’t do this thing justice. Or maybe I just suck as a photographer.

Copped. Ganesh statue. A couple of years ago Sam took an Indian Art and Architecture course, and was introduced to Ganesh (Ganesha). She in turn introduced me to Ganesh(a). While I am definitely a Christian, I respect other people’s beliefs, and find some of them down right fascinating. I’m not going to sit here and pretend to know all there is to know about Hinduism, or Buddhism, or any other “ism” for that matter, but I like what Ganesh(a) represents. The remover of obstacles. While I won’t be praying to Ganesh(a) whenever I’m faced with opposition, this statue serves as a reminder that no matter what, you will find.. no, MAKE a way. And if nothing more its a beautiful, iconic figure that looks cool as shit on my desk. 

Queue the condemning tweets/responses from fellow “Christians” about me serving another god.