I built a Cyberpunk City out of GARBAGE

(AKA: What you do when you’re stuck at home and bored to tears)

So, one of the wilder things I did during the pandemic was build my own cyberpunk city to use for a music video shoot. 

The bones of the project just uses completely randomly pieces of cardboard and other crap from my garage, randomly glued together into shapes that looked vaguely building-like, and spray-painted gray and black to look somewhat on-purpose.

(Party cups and left over toilet paper tubes just add to the aesthetic)

The next thing I did was add dramatic uplighting, because let’s face it… everything looks cooler and bigger and more intense if it’s uplit. Chunks of leftover LED strips work really well, and it’s really easy to isolate just the blue circuits. It creates the illusion of scale which is important for any model to look large.

Of course, no city is complete without BLINKY LIGHTS (and I’m sure you noted already there’s some blinky action on top of the towers here) so I spent a bunch of time googling blinking light circuits and experimenting with them on a breadboard before ultimately extending the wires to glue them to the buildings themselves.

(I  got a basic electronics kit on Amazon for most of the components)

Then, I put white LED strips inside of the bigger buildings (a little trickier to isolate the W circuits but not impossible!) and poked holes to simulate lit windows for ultimate sci-fi street cred.

At this stage, things were looking pretty legit.

The “final” touch was to create a virtual billboard to go in one of the sections. I had an old first gen ipod touch that I made a little slot for and cobbled together a video loop for. (Don’t worry it’s not permanently installed or anything – it just slides in and out.)

… and of course what dystopian future is complete without flying cars…?

A little platform for a hotwheels car to go on (after it’s all painted green of course for the greenscreen.)

Insert some practical effects, some video-editing magic, and VOILA! … it’s CYBERPUNK TIME BAYBEE.

I was inspired by a post on here from literally years ago about making a city out of garbage and LED’s and decided to take it to the next level. I’m sure at some point I could save myself the trouble by learning how to 3D model but this was so much more fun.

I probably spent too much time on this but if you’re in any way curious about what the final result turned out to be, the video I built all of this for premieres on October 15th.

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Imagine if you will a big and large dog. Your not making it big enough in your mind. Okay now it’s good. Picture its favorite food is berries and salmon. You want to pet it, don’t you? Well don’t. What you’ve just invented is a bear. And you’re under arrest for inventing the bear.

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i love getting exposure to misc fetishes that im not into because imo it’s really interesting to see what the invented scenarios, art pieces, stories, etc reveal about the primary concerns of the fetish-holder, like the specific traits that are necessary to make the fetish “work”

like as an example, one would expect the bimbo fetish to exclusively involve the “bimbo” characters being uhh Universally Uninformed, but there are novels & comics etc that depict like…. Bimbo Scientists. but the Bimbo Scientists’ projects are like “how can i make my boobs bigger” “how can i invent a really attractive man” etc. it casts the fetish in this really fascinating light–like, the character *can* be Conventionally Smart, as long as she uses her education for like vapid & trivial ends, which forms this really interesting like Reconfiguration of the conventional images & signifiers of “un/intelligence”, like as if to say that for at least some adherents of that fetish, the values & concerns conventionally associated with Foolishness & Vacuity are more weighted than the actual primary traits associated with smartness

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Not only did my fried rice panel take off in a way I wasn’t expecting but my POST about the fried rice panel also took off in a way I wasn’t expecting please let me rest

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