Jess' Blog

Donkey Kong Restoration

2009-02-12T01:20:00.000-08:00

I've set up a separate blog that chronicles my arcade restoration project:

Jess' Donkey Kong Restoration

Mario Paint!

2008-07-13T20:34:00.000-07:00

So I've had a little bit of free time during my job hunt. I've decided to pick up another hobby (in addition to paper crafting): Painting!

It started off with my urge to paint my DS Lite. Instead, I ended up hand painting the clear case for the DS Lite. I didn't want to risk taking the DS Lite apart and possibly damaging it. I was somewhat content with the finished product (sorry, no picture), but I decided to be a little more adventurous.

I took an old GBA SP that I had laying around and decided to take it apart and paint it. I didn't take pictures of the process, but here is the finished product. I used a textured metallic gray for the main color and a metallic gold for the triforce.

After painting the GBA SP, I decided I'd take it a bit further and find other stuff to paint. I noticed that I had a plain white Guitar Hero III Wii faceplate. I made two stencils out of card stock using the same mario image. I first sprayed on the base coat in textured metallic gray. Then, I spray painted one layer of metallic blue using one stencil cutout. Finally, I added on the final layer in white. I think I'm going to use contact paper next time because I had to tape down the bits and pieces of the card stock and it was very time consuming and sloppy. I ended up having to touch up the image by hand. All in all, I'm happy with the finished product as well and I feel like I'm getting the hang out it.

So if you need or want anything custom painted, I'll give it my best shot!

Wondercon 2008!

2008-02-23T21:38:00.000-08:00

I had a pretty awesome 25th birthday today. Thanks to those of you who called, texted, and posted to wish me a happy birthday. For my birthday, my little brother took me to Wondercon 2008 at the Moscone Center in SF. This was my first time going to Wondercon and I have to say that it was amazing. I'm thinking of making this an annual thing. Here are some highlights of my day:

The line going in wrapped around the block, but it went really quickly.

Line Security

Retro Pacman Booth

Overhead View 1

Overhead View 2

Jedi and Sith

Roland Emmerich (Director of Independence Day) speaking about 10,000 B.C.

Steve Carell speaking about Get Smart

The Incredible Hulk!

Peter "Chewbacca" Mayhew

A Tower of T-Shirt Store

Cobra Commander

John Cho speaking about Harold & Kumar 2

Jon "Pete Becker" Favreau speaking about Iron Man

My favorite moment of the convention...meeting...JIM LEE!!!