Nothing says I Love You like a hairy chest...

Using the template I used for the Mini-CD game console emulators, I made a Hair Metal Jean Jacket Mix CD. Inspired by my Hair Metal Drummer Mix CD.

I used many images from the internet and put them together like a collage using photoshop layers. The starting point was of course a hairy chest, I was going to use Paul Stanley's hairy chest, the famous singer of KISS. Quite Possibly the greatest hairy chest ever. But ended up using some random dude's chest from the web.

I also searched for images of patches, pins, buttons and jean jackets. Including this awesome back patch of Guns N' Roses. Which is the back of the Mini-CD's Jacket/Wrap.

I added the effects such as shadows and stretched out the images to make it look like the patches and pins and buttons were really on the jacket.

As a finishing touch for the CD case's label I made a hairy chest with the words Hair Metal shaved into it. If anyone can guess whose chest this belongs to you'll get 1,000 aqua net* points.

I have other genres of music planned for this idea, such as a Punk Leather Jacket, Hardcore Hoodie, Emo Sweater and Death Metal Jacket. Hopefully I'll get those done soon.

*10,000 Aqua Net points gets you one can of Aqua Net.

Hair Metal Drummer Mix CD

After the Super Mario coffee table was finished, I had a lot of these empty containers...

I really believe that almost everything can be recycled or reused in one way or another. You just have to see the potential in things that would otherwise be thrown into a landfill. With that I decided to challenge myself and to see what could be made with these empty containers.
The result was a Hair Metal drum kit with two mix CDs.

I gave this to my girlfriend as a gift, because who doesn't love mix CDs? Although in this day and age it is a dying form, I still like putting together mix CDs.

First, I got into a really sleazy mindset, to think
like a hair metal drummer. Naturally a hair metal drummer would have woman's breasts on the bass drum. The drum set would have stickers of sponsors and their favorite rags such as Hit Parader and Metal Edge along with a Misfits sticker for street cred. The bass, toms, floor, snare and cymbals were made from the empty push pin containers.

Every hair metal drummer needs a can of Aqua Net. I firmly believe that the life of the hair metal drummer depends on it --like you and I depend on water.

When you pop the lid off the bass drums, you find the mix CDs -- which were burned on mini-discs. Hours of hair metal exists on these mini-CDs. And I printed CD labels with shots of some dudes' crotch.

As a bonus I added a fake hair metal drummer name and autograph to the breasts of the bass drums. The drummer's name is GZ Ivan and the autograph says "love ya!" with arrows pointing to the breasts. Classy indeed.

To epitomize male chauvinism, I added a shot of a woman's crotch to the snare drum; because what else does a hair metal drummer do but bang the skins.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH GAME BOYYYYYYYY!!! (Flava Flav)

One of the greatest things ever invented. Portable gaming, for those who need to get their game on while on the crapper.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameboy

This was by far my favorite to do from this project because of all the unique elements of the gameboy.

I cut the screen portion of it out and made the cd label inside the game screen of Tetris. It came out perfect, in my opinion.

All the details of the console remain. This was definately the most satisfying console to replicate.

Unlike the previous consoles I made the cd label the game of tetris playing on the screen instead of a game cart.

The back of the wrap came out great because I got to put the loaded cart as part of the design. I also included all the details such as Nintendo's 800 number for repairs in case I ever need it.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Super Nintendo

While The Genesis was riding high along came the Super NES to crush it's hopes and dreams.

It was like Superman to Lex Luther.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Nintendo

SNES also brought with it a simple design for the console. By the time I made this one I was getting the hang of replicating the designs, so this was relatively easy compared to the Atari 2600 and the Genesis.

Once Again I crammed as much detail as possible into the sides. the Control plug holes, power light, etc.

By this time the carts were getting smaller while holding more information. Now one can fit about 750 games in a mini-dvdr.

They even started simplifying the bottoms of consoles by this time as well, it didn't even have a grill to dissipitate the heat.

The Sega Genesis Explosion

The Genesis brought with it what the master system was missing, a slick design from the future. A future with terminators and Mcfly's. It also brought with it totally kick ass games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Genesis

Once again I tried replicating the details of the design to the best of my abilities. The hardest parts being the sides since they are about 1/4 inch thin, not much room to work with.

16 Bits of Awesome were inside this baby.

I took this picture with a CD case and an Ipod for scale. Mini-cdr's are like a cute baby dinosaur in terms of technology but who cares.

Inside one can possibly put loads of games and a emulator and run it on one of many systems. But of course that could be illegal in some parts of the world.

Just to clarifly something, these are printed on card stock, cut, folded and pasted together.

Nintendo Entertainment System - The Cliff Notes Version

The Reagan era brought with it the ultimate weapon in mind control, The Nintendo Entertainment System or the NES. I actually did this mini-cdr console first but I am going in chronological order.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System


Such a simple design but it was definitely not easy to do especially since it was my first time trying out this project.


This was a lot of fun for me even though I do own a NES.


Pictured together for scale the real NES and the spawn I made in my lab.


The back of the cd-wrap opens up in the back to release the case inside.


The cd label inside is the design of the classic cartridge of Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt together. That damn dog from Duck Hunt is still laughing at me.


As I did with the other consoles the bottom of the console is the back of the cd-wrap.

Honey, I Shrunk The Atari 2600

I'm a kid of the 80's, so my first project is a tribute to one of the most influential toys/game consoles of the era, the Atari 2600.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600

I took a mini-cd-r case and using photoshop I made a wrap for it in the design of the classic wood veneer version of the console.


Inside I put a classic game cartridge as the design for the cd label/booklet.


I even took it a step further and made the back of the wrap the bottom of the console.


Inside the actual mini-cd-r, well, it could be anything but the obvious would be to have an emulator loaded with games to play on your computer or console that can run emulators.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_emulator