taking Silent Hill cosplay in a different direction
August 8, 2022 8:12 AM Subscribe
Glad to see Nathan Felder does woodworking!
posted by geoff. at 9:08 AM on August 8, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by geoff. at 9:08 AM on August 8, 2022 [1 favorite]
His recent gadget for lifting up and moving concrete paving slabs in his garden was so cool, I couldn't stop chuckling how effective it was.
posted by kev23f at 9:19 AM on August 8, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by kev23f at 9:19 AM on August 8, 2022 [1 favorite]
Dude is a magnificent weirdo. The full site is an absolute treasure trove.
posted by echo target at 9:19 AM on August 8, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by echo target at 9:19 AM on August 8, 2022 [1 favorite]
If you only have a 3D printer then Thingiverse has you covered. We printed a different one a few years back, which worked surprisingly well (can't remember what we were planning on alerting people to now...)
posted by amcewen at 9:20 AM on August 8, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by amcewen at 9:20 AM on August 8, 2022 [1 favorite]
I haven't heard an "OH SHIT" coming up from the basement since my old man died.
posted by Capt. Renault at 10:18 AM on August 8, 2022
posted by Capt. Renault at 10:18 AM on August 8, 2022
Metafilter: I painted it dark blue to give it more of an ominous look
posted by ASCII Costanza head at 10:52 AM on August 8, 2022 [3 favorites]
posted by ASCII Costanza head at 10:52 AM on August 8, 2022 [3 favorites]
I played the first Silent Hill one summer as a teen. This was a very bad idea, for I frighten easily by the surreal nature of the thin walls between us and madness. I don't live in tornado alley or anywhere sirens are common. I've basically never heard them outside of television and stuff.
School year starts, new school for me. The kind where everyone has gone there forever, and interlopers are strange, rare creatures. First week, everything is fine. Second week, all fine until Friday, 1pm. You guessed it, random air raid siren. Loud. Nobody else in the room even reacts. And again, this is not a thing that happens in my city. I'm slowly freaking out, as this siren just. Keeps. Going. More than two minutes, like it's next door. (Which it was. Something about an ancient civil defense being tested once a month.)
That was a fun discussion with the school therapist.
posted by Jacen at 11:59 AM on August 8, 2022 [1 favorite]
School year starts, new school for me. The kind where everyone has gone there forever, and interlopers are strange, rare creatures. First week, everything is fine. Second week, all fine until Friday, 1pm. You guessed it, random air raid siren. Loud. Nobody else in the room even reacts. And again, this is not a thing that happens in my city. I'm slowly freaking out, as this siren just. Keeps. Going. More than two minutes, like it's next door. (Which it was. Something about an ancient civil defense being tested once a month.)
That was a fun discussion with the school therapist.
posted by Jacen at 11:59 AM on August 8, 2022 [1 favorite]
Silent Hill cosplay? I'm a Silent Hill fan, but I don't get the connection. We hear air raid sirens in the games, but I don't remember ever seeing one.
This guy must've been driving his poor neighbors nuts!
posted by Ursula Hitler at 12:58 PM on August 8, 2022
This guy must've been driving his poor neighbors nuts!
posted by Ursula Hitler at 12:58 PM on August 8, 2022
Friday, 1pm. You guessed it, random air raid siren.
Something similar happened with me when I was about 12. I was traveling with my grandparents that summer in their Airstream trailer. At one point we had stopped in some small town in upstate NY, in a parking lot near the firehouse, to have lunch while my grandfather repaired something on the pull-out awning. As we sat there, what I learned afterward was a noon siren (which I'd never heard or heard of before) went off, and of course it was earsplitting since we were right next to it! My grandmother wasn't freaking out so I didn't either, but after it wound down I said something about grandpa's drill being really loud, which cracked her up, then cracked my grandfather up when she told him.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:04 PM on August 8, 2022
Something similar happened with me when I was about 12. I was traveling with my grandparents that summer in their Airstream trailer. At one point we had stopped in some small town in upstate NY, in a parking lot near the firehouse, to have lunch while my grandfather repaired something on the pull-out awning. As we sat there, what I learned afterward was a noon siren (which I'd never heard or heard of before) went off, and of course it was earsplitting since we were right next to it! My grandmother wasn't freaking out so I didn't either, but after it wound down I said something about grandpa's drill being really loud, which cracked her up, then cracked my grandfather up when she told him.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:04 PM on August 8, 2022
I grew up in the shadow of NORAD, which was being built into a mountainside you could see from our front yard.
My school playground had a very tall bright yellow air raid siren on one edge which seemed to go off quite a lot.
I don’t remember how old I was when I realized what a joke all that was.
If worse had come to worst, that playground and everything for miles around it would have been a sheet of radioactive glass.
posted by jamjam at 2:13 PM on August 8, 2022
My school playground had a very tall bright yellow air raid siren on one edge which seemed to go off quite a lot.
I don’t remember how old I was when I realized what a joke all that was.
If worse had come to worst, that playground and everything for miles around it would have been a sheet of radioactive glass.
posted by jamjam at 2:13 PM on August 8, 2022
A friend in 2002 mentioned something called Metafilter and I happened upon this entry and I’ve been happily following along ever since! I just used my homemade wooden bandsaw this morning.
posted by kiblinger at 3:42 PM on August 8, 2022
posted by kiblinger at 3:42 PM on August 8, 2022
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I will share a similar project. I have recently built a smoke/dust filter for my laser cutter.
It uses a HEPA and charcoal filter elements from an IKEA air purifier and a CPAP hose to connect to the shroud on the head of my diode laser. The brushless motor and speed controller are from a ducted fan assembly designed for an electric "jet" RC plane, and it's powered by a 12v/30amp power supply brick. I can control the speed with a potentiometer connected to an ATTINY micro-controller. All the rest of it is built with 3D printed parts I designed, including the vacuum impeller itself, which I designed by looking at impellers on AliExpress and thinking "that looks about right." The filter element enclosure is much bigger than my 3D printer so I had to print it in 6 parts and weld them together with a hand-held 3D pen. It all works really really well; when I engrave stuff the air quality monitor in my room doesn't flicker at all.
I suppose this is the sort of thing that would be really popular on youtube or whatever. But I have no patience with setting up cameras or otherwise interrupting my work with trying to document it. Oh well, another missed chance at viral success.
posted by seanmpuckett at 8:58 AM on August 8, 2022 [1 favorite]