Hey Arizona, What Are You Creating? [Share]

I’m digging these two project that both Eric Torres and Steamcrow shared today.

Eric collab’d with Wesly Evans to pimp out an old-school X-Box controller.

It’s pretty fly, I must say.

And Steamcrow is building hilarious puppets based off of his equally hilarious Monster Commute web-comic.

If you’ve read it, you know how crazy accurate these are looking.

So, what do you create?

If it’s sweet and at least a little geeky, please let me know what you’re building, making, sewing, filming, writing, modding, collecting, or creating.

Email me at jonathan [at] lightningoctopus [dot] com, leave a comment, tweet me to death, or nag me on Friendface.

Can You Guess What Video Games These Came From? [Local Geek Art]

I’m digging this piece of art from local geek artist James Barnett. Can you tell what it’s from?

Instead of donning a beret (and pointy goatee) then setting up an easel on the side of a hill, James explores his favorite video game landscapes; roaming their cities and countrysides looking for his muse. When he finds it, he hits pause and starts painting.

With a colorful Fauxvist style (Honorable Art History Degree, please!), James brings out personality, charm, and some high class to games like Halo, Fallout, Half-Life 2, and even a personal favorite of mine – FFVII.

So, the challenge for you is to head over to his Flickr page and see if you can identify the games his art comes from – without cheating.

Check them out and share what you recognized!

Remember A Goofy Movie? These Guys From Mesa Sure Do [Video]

A Goofy Movie spoke directly to a handful of (sometimes awkward) young teens in the 90′s – especially these Mesa kids.

So much so that they grabbed 100 dollars, 100 friends, 100 hours, and shot their own version of the opening song, shot for shot here in the valley. In fact, you may recognize some locations.

(One of the guys behind this thing is my brother-in-law.)

The video has done pretty well on the YouTube’s, with hundreds of thousands of views – and it even got the attention of the guy behind A Goofy Movie himself. (Scroll to the bottom of that link for his reaction.)

Whatever you may think of the somewhat obscure source, or the choice to recreate an entire song from it shot for shot – you have to admit they did a pretty sweet job, and you might want to watch it more than once to catch all the subtle details.

Keep your eye our for some sadly accurate Trekkies: