24 - Video Contest and Ethical Dilemmas

Lots of project updates.

Eric's multiple Facebook accounts have been leading up to this moment. We are going to have a head to head video contest with the winner determined by Facebook comments. One subject, two videos. Ward's video versus Eric video coming soon. The subject is Eric getting chased by children. This leads to a mention of the Dogma 95 filming rules.

Eric's project vanity is making progress, and he has secured an alternate billboard location for making an additive piece of billboard art.

Ward went from unsure about completing NaNoWriMo, to thinking it's possible, and this week he's committed. Fifty-thousand words, here he comes.

Ward started building a Fallout-inspired crosscut table saw sled and was also an instructables.com finalist in the Halloween props contest for his Skyrim daggers.

Eric presents two moral/ethical/business dilemmas that touch upon some of the same concepts we argued in episode 10.

Top 3 things to buy after winning the lottery.

Bonus - Graffiti Video Breakdown

 We discuss the videos we made of our billboard graffiti project. We each made separate videos using the footage we shot. We discuss our thought process and how we made them.

Which one do you like more. Let us know in this head to head competition!

23 - We Graffiti a Billboard

We delve into our project where we add graffiti to a billboard. We even had permission in the form of a note. Why did someone let us do this? We walk through this process from sourcing the billboard to adding the paint.
Also neither this podcast nor this episode is sponsored by State Farm or any insurance agents involved or perceived to be involved with State Farm.
We don't have enough time to delve into our videos on this project in this episode, so look for a bonus episode soon.

Who's billboard video do you like better? Check the links and let us know!

We started this podcast discussing the pin it project, and it's still ongoing. Maybe next spring!

Nanowrimo is NAtional NOvel WRIting MOnth. Ward is committed to meeting the challenge. He describes his novel's premise, which is strangely similar to Ben Carson's book. This is Ward's third nanowrimo challenge.

Smooth-on shared a link to Ward's dagger build, and Ward emailed a movie blog site about writing for them. This leads to discussing Ward's movie reviews and improvements.

Ward doesn't need to do a custom Catan board game, but he really wants to. We brainstorm how to theme it.

Ward's next project will be a cross cut table saw sled.

22 - Costly Ton of Epic Fail

We talk about projects for November and beyond, but not before discussing a few movies- Stretch, The Devil Wears Prada, and The Impostor.

Ward is trying to catch up on projects from October and has a lot he wants to build and many videos to shoot. Chances are it won't get done, but you will like what's planned. No really, you will!

NaNoWriMo
Crosscut table saw sled
Plastic vacuum former
Vidoes

Eric has abandoned writing a stay-at-home dad tell-all book and Ward talks about prior novels he's written.

We rant on Daylight Saving Time. Eric for the grammar, Ward for the practice.

We close with our top 3 most annoying grammatical errors

21 - Board of Games

Selling cakes can be illegal.
American Horror Story and haunted houses

The Human Condition movie trilogy. It's Band of Brothers quality and a comparable length, and Ward can't help but bring it up and compare it to a recent ten hour long trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.

Our main topic is board games, traditional, gateway, party, and advanced. We talk about our favorites, Settlers of Catan, Carcasonne, Ticket to Ride, Clue, and Pictionary.

Ward admits the fun of poker in high school was cheating. People rarely caught on.

Then Ward geeks out over the party game Mafia.

The top 3 is, of course, board games.

Bonus - Waiting for a Resin Cast to Dry

We've made the mold and we are now waiting for the resin cast dagger to dry. We talk about the project and then delve into teenage mutant ninja turtle lore, Harry Potter spirit animals, and a time travel renaissance fair.

After thirty minutes we pull the cast. The results are a very good pull, that needs a little bit of work. The resin is Smooth-on 325 resin tinted black. It came out with a frosted look on the surface which turned out to be water. We had washed the mold with water, and resin doesn't react well.

There were a few trapped air issues. Air channels were enlarged to release air.

The rubbery issue is due to the resin being a gel cure. While the instructions state you can remove from the mold in fifteen minutes, it takes a 24 hours for the cast to become rigid. Once it's rigid, it is very rigid.

The third cure came out really good after fixing the above issues. 

20 - Desire Fuels Energy

Project updates on Halloween and GIANT JENGA.

After that it's a journey of discover as Eric discovers Ward watches quite a few television shows. Eric had no idea. We talk a little Mad Men, Dr. Who, The Shield, 24, The Walking Dead, The Wire, The Blacklist, American Horror Story...

We also predict how The Walking Dead will finally end. You've heard it here first.

Our main topic is desire fuels energy. You make time for what you want to do. Period. If you desire to do it, you will get it done. 

Eric then delves into how much effort Ward puts into his wardrobe. 

We finish it out with our top 3 all time personal favorite Halloween costumes.