Game Gun Designer Talks to Real Gun People

Over on The Firearm Blog they recently had a guest blogger that I have looked at in the past. His name is Pascal Eggert. He is a graphic designer that design guns for video games.  He does amazing work. And he is a big fan of guns in real life. This a great thing as functional and conceptual details are a lot better when based in reality.

The article is a good read.  And I definitely recommend checking out Pascal’s site as he has some crazy cool ideas. And I am with the guys at The Firearm Blog. I hope this guy gets a job designing real guns some day.

The wife’s new venture

So this weekend, my wife decided to become a Scentsy “sales consultant”.  It’s another pyramid scheme company.  But all they sell is wickless candles.  So you buy their warmer, drop in the scent of your choice and make your house smell all yummy.  They have something like 80 different scents available and come out with a new one every month.  I am hoping for bacon, popcorn, or prime rib scents.  I am sure I will be waiting for eternity for that though.  Lori really loves it and the scents are good.  And if you always have candles burning, this is a much cheaper and better way to go.  There is no flame involved, just a light bulb.  The wax washes off carpet easily.  And the wax when melted is not warm enough to hurt a baby that decides to dip its fingers in it.  For $5 you get a bar that lasts about 60-80 hours.

They have tried to bring out some man friendly product, but honestly, I don’t think they have consulted a real man in the process.  All the man products seem to be what women imagine guys would like.  Of course my wife likes a lot of the warmers, but after spending a minute looking through the catalog, I had to whip out the laptop and design up my version of a warmer.  So about 10 minutes later, this is what I came up with for something I would like to see on my shelf:

My Scentsy warmer design

All of their current offerings are some sort of ceramic.  This baby is brushed bronze.  I think brushed stainless would look just as good.  Or maybe some sort of polished then anodized aluminum in a deep blue or red.  Or of course, I have always been a big fan of black chrome.  Anyway… I didn’t take the time to measure the light bulb interface so of course this design would need tweaked for that.  But for a 10-15 minute dorking around session, I think it looks pretty good.  I called it EyeFinity due to the elliptical eyes cut through each face.  Anyway, if you want t check out Lori’s new blog, you can get there HERE.  It’s her first ever blog, so be nice.  And her Scentsy homepage for ordering product or setting up your own party and getting free stuff is HERE.

COBB Tuning BOV

Reason for this post:

• I want people to know how great this product is.
• I wanted to clear up some details for customers that were incorrect from the manufacturer.
• I was hoping Cobb would explain what makes this product so great but honestly I don’t think they know since everyone involved with the design (me) is gone.
• I want to explain some of the thought that went into a product that from most manufacturers has little to no thought put into it.


BPV ? BOV

HKS carbon fiber time attack Altezza (Lexus IS)

Here are some pictures I took at the 2000 SEMA show. On a side note, I will be hitting up SEMA again this year so I should have some pictures for you from that event. The subject of these pictures: The infamous HKS Altezza time attack car with full carbon fiber wide body on it.  Info on this car is a little tough to come by.  Superstreet did an article about it.  As with most of their articles, they have some pretty good studio photo shots and just enough data to whet the whistle, but not enough to full inform people about the subject.  You can read the article here

Carbon fiber HKS Altezza Time Attack car at SEMA 2008

Reminiscing part 3

Cutler's Performance Center bike brochure

I figured I had posted way too many updates already today.  But I couldn’t pass this one up.  I was cleaning out my office at the house and came across an old brochure for something I designed back in 1997/1998.  At the time I was living in Logan, UT and my dad was living in Sandy, UT about 100 miles away.  Well his snowmobiling buddy Dale Cutler had recently hired a guy named Devin Flynn that was seriously into mountain bikes.  Dale decided to expand his snowmobile business and make a line of mountain bikes.  So on the weekends, I would meet up with Dale and Devin at my dad’s house (he had the SolidWorks) and we would work on a new bike design.  I had been doing this for a while before the bikes while designing an engine for Dale that was a 1000cc snowmobile engine based on 2 Honda CR500 cylinders.

Prova short shifter for Subarus

So I decided I haven’t been posting often enough.  So I figured I would post some more pictures of things I designed before they fade into history since my former employer will no longer be making them.

Here is a couple shots of the Subaru short shifters I designed for a Japanese company named Prova.  It was kind of flattering that they wanted us to produce the shifters for them because they are fairly well known in the Subaru market for their high quality parts.  The shifters are the same as the COBB version other than the color combination and I changed the material for the lower ball section.

Prova STi short shifter designed my ME