54 years, that guy would have a lot of experience and patience with carving.

Sorry, but those are lame and old excuses. The Soviets were doing the exact same thing too, why do you singular blame carving up of nations on the west? More than that, there has never been a time in all of human history when that was not happening. Before the British empire it was the Romans, before them it was the Egyptians, along the middle of that was mohammad and his crews attempts at their own empires.

I'm not willing to excuse atrocities and crimes because of earlier atrocities and crimes. The Sunni on Shia and Shia on Sunni violence predates America by a few centuries anyways, and it does nothing today to dissuade, prevent or even retaliate against the West. It is vile and far beyond what is seen by proponents of any other major religion.

Well apparently you just can't fucking read. I addressed that in my post, The West, meaning America and Britain primarily has carved up and destroyed the Middle East several times over. The Atrocities that happen in the wake of that happen in the context of previous wars and atrocities. So if you destroy a country and suddenly there's no food and people are killing eachother for food, it's YOUR Fault. You created the conditions in which this horrible shit can happen.

That is exactly what The Nazis were found guilty of, waging a war of aggression. That is what we did in Iraq, it is not surprising to any knowledgeable person that this created power issues and ignited other tensions. In fact most Iraqis agree it was the US that caused the civil war and escalated the violence.

Next time try to read and maybe do some research. It is about Western Powers destroying and trying to create Nations and failing miserably, helping to start and escalate a cycle of violence in those regions.

Long story very short...I KNOW MORE THAN YOU ABOUT THIS ISSUE.

Your video, Flexible sculptures made of carved paper, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

I'm for it. It helps carve up the site in an interesting way for new and existing users.

BTW if there are going to be more non-video items on the frontpage you might as well use those to do a "Featured channel..." thing every so often and perhaps this could be the first one.

Epic bearded guy would be wearing Nordic Carved Armor. So, yeah, Ebonheart Pact.

I completely agree about Elder Scrolls being a single player experience. For me anyway. I've never enjoyed MMOs and there's no chance that this is going to sway me. About the only thing I'd like added to the TES games is a little more micromanagement of my companions. Dragon Age: Origins got that right.

Dogbats? That's just ridiculous, ant.

And the winner of this hastily thrown together pumpkin carving contest is.....

[Timpani roll]

...JiggaJohnson for writing the sole comment that referenced the carving of pumpkins. Congrats. One quality. One promote. Coming to you.

I carved some small pumpkins and took a few snaps last night. I'll post them tonight.

Carving tonight. Will post.

horrible carving technique

It was falsely reported that NBC had canceled the show, but its future is still unclear and probably depends on the success of the pilot.

Bryan Fuller: "If we get a huge number, all the cast are in line to be picked up and to go to series. And that was one of the things that NBC wanted to make sure, that they had all of the cast deals in line — so that if we did get a big number and audiences proved their appetite for this type of show, that they could move very quickly.
There was talk initially of putting it on in the spring and doing 5 or 6 episodes. But I think because it’s Halloween and because Grimm is doing very well for them, their impetus was, “Let’s get it out there to the audience now and have audiences really react to it.” I stand by the show, so I’m like, great, let’s get it out there, let’s get people to watch it. At its core it’s a story about a family trying to carve a path in the world for a son who has challenges. It’s intimately relatable, but we get to tell that story with monsters."

Source: TVGuide
>> ^PHJF:

I heard this was already canned and going no further than the pilot?

That is the coolest lantern ever and that dude has serious carving skills! Nice find!

Awesome video B!!! Thank you x 1500!!!!! Now as long as I can keep from rotting or being carved...I think I'll be ok. To @PlayhousePals - I think this is exactly how I'm going to look after Thanksgiving, coming up this weekend in Canada!

I think a lot of it is books with monetary value or ones that could increase in value. Completly silly to use them on something that like @spoco2 said, is going to be thrown away in a very short amount of time.

You don't see as many people getting outraged about book art because those artist are elevating the book far past something that looks like it came from Pier 1 Imports.

As far as saying nasty things, that happens whenever anyone does something stupid on the internet.

>> ^Sagemind:

Although I think cutting up books is an incredibly bad idea for so many reasons, I am finding this notion incredibly entertaining.
This whole thing has stirred up quite a bit of hate and made her a laughingstock of the moment.
Do a google search on her name and there are reviews coming out completely debasing her, ans saying all kinds of nasty things - as is happening here.
But why? They are just books, they aren't even Holy books. This begs the question, "How sacred are our books?" What are your thoughts?

a curious striation
in the bone
teeth marks wouldn't
do this alone
was he well done
when he was served
did you taste
the little boy
after you sampled
the hor d'ourves?
a carving knife
the very thing
to plate him up
next to the asparagus
a life most delicious,
he went well with
dijon vinegrate.

edit: wrote this verse after we were talking about tulpas, thought I'd show it to you. Totally forgot about it

a tulpa born of brooding
a shadow light eluding
a sound that keeps intruding
as you're hiding and colluding