“The project will publish the genotype (the full DNA sequence of all 46 chromosomes) of the volunteers, along with extensive information about their phenotype: medical records, various measurements, MRI images, etc. All data will be placed within the public domain and made available over the Internet so that researchers can test various hypotheses about the relationships among genotype, environment and phenotype.”

The security professionals I hang around generally roll their eyes at this. Heh. Yes, I know, it’s an insane amount of privacy to relinquish. I will gladly give it up to see this type of progress.

April 25, 2012. PGP participants at the 2012 GET Conference in Boston MA. * Photo credit: Mike Dravis and PersonalGenomes.org, CC-BY-SA

http://blog.personalgenomes.org/2012/05/07/making-the-pgp-more-personal-participation-highlights-from-get2012-and-looking-ahead-to-get2013/
On a related tangent, I am infinitely intrigued with using our own bodies for experimentation. Yes, that probably sounds creepy… we’re trained that our bodies are off limits -that a select group of people are the final word….

People are already fucking around with their bodies in ill-informed ways. Foregoing actual treatment for crap like homeopathy. What if medicine, genetics, etc was more accessible? What if a Carl Sagan type came along and laid it all out for the average Joe? Let us tinker! I’ll happily take the risk of becoming a Darwin award.

I love to see people implanting magnets and experimenting with their bodies. We’re on the tip of something amazing and I hope I live long enough to see it.

Google glasses? Fuck yes! Now implant it directly into my melon and drop the patent. kthx

The tradition is, once a month, she posts the most interesting or bizarre search terms that landed people on her blog. Since I’ve never done this before, I thought I’d select a few from my all time search history. To be fair, there’s a lot of penis references from my dick cake. You’ve been warned.

For my own amusement, I will attempt to answer these search queries in the form of a drawing.

7. my erected morning penis

6. male gimp artwork

You got me. I did draw that one already.

5. penis in a bun

You got it.

4) what to for horny cat

To the drive in of course.

3. zombie penis

2. pantie on dick

And my favorite:
1) nifty old grandmas

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It’s worth your time, and I’m not just saying that because my art is scattered around in this series. Er OK, maybe I’m a wee bit biased. Did I mention I’m selling art prints from the series?

…I did? Oh OK.  Just checkin’.

Here’s where I found it: http://blog.thingm.com/2011/07/invisible-accent-light-with-blinkm-maxm-freem/

It’s Blinkm Maxm + FreeM + RGB LED Strip + Universal IR remote control. That’s it! I didn’t program anything. I didn’t even have to solder.
Lucky me, someone even designed an enclosure that I printed out on the makerbot: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:14908
Mine is slightly modified to fit the FreeM hanging off the bottom there.

And the results? Awesome.

Here’s a little video showing off changing the color/brightness.

Jane wanted a penis cake for her birthday. I hate making cakes. Fondant is sticky, horrible stuff, but I like Jane, and penises amuse me, so of course I said yes. I started out by building a platform to erect it on… ok just that one pun and I’ll stop. I promise.

I loaded it up with cream filled buns and rice crispy treats for the shaft, and a couple cupcakes for the balls. A problem arose (not a pun this time really) with the fondant layer. It was too warm and starting sloughing off the underside of the cake.

Too bad no one wants a zombie penis cake. It would have been perfect. Um, ew.
So with a little help, I removed the dong from the structure and laid it out flat.

After a bit of food color and candles, it didn’t turn out half bad. Not the epic standing cake I had hoped for, but lesson learned about the fondant.

The best part was the next morning, hungover and groggy, being startled by a half eaten dick in my fridge.

This evening, I got sick of looking at it, so I did what any rational, well adjusted human being would do. I shoved the rest of it into an air cannon and fired it down an alley.

P.S. Thanks to Matt for snapping some photos of it at the party.

http://sudux.com/portfolio/one-tiny-critter-a-day/

If you’d like to buy a critter, let me know! They’re $60 a piece. I have a couple left but they’re selling quick.

Years ago, Pyr0 & Ed commissioned me to paint a giant green monkey. The monkey is one of my favorite pieces. I was heavily influenced by “web 2.0″ at the time, and was impressed when the bright candy coated crap translated so well to my painting.  Hooray for learning some color theory! heh. So, I thought I’d give the style another go. This time, much smaller. Here’s the ol’ monkey painting for the curious:

It’s based on the “monkey above the couch” painting in Invader Zim. Yeah, this guy:

This critter painting is a gift for a friend that has a soft spot for small fuzzy rodents. But if you’d like an itty bitty print, let me know!

Instead of blogging the long, boring assembly and troubleshooting, I’ll show you my first project with it.

I found a flying spaghetti monster cookie cutter on thingiverse. The print turned out ok, but it had some gaps that food might get stuck in, so I opted to do something other than bake delicious gingerbread monsters.

How about a festive light up Spaghetti Monster? Yup!
I cannibalized a Christmas angel I found at Target for it’s juicy LED bits. and modded my little monster to fit the parts.

Cut out a little slot for the switch.

Slap some guts inside…

grabbed a cheap battery holder from radio shack

added googly eyes and a scrap of shiny vellum paper

And the results!

With every intention of decorating the tree tastefully, I headed to Target… and then, the McDonalds playkit caught my eye.

I would post some statement about consumerism, America, blah blah blah… but really the plastic cheese ornament just makes me fucking giddy.