What Projects is Will Working on?

I have been working on the origami section of my website. This includes a new project for beginners on how to make an origami swan. This is a neat little project that only requires a square of paper. Can it get any simpler than that? Anyhoo, This is a traditional looking swan. Comes out good and is not too hard to make. if you want to try origami this is a nice place to start. How to make an origami swan

The How to Make a world war 2 diorama series of tutoials is almost done. I have covered a lot of the techniques for making this kind of diorama including how to make barbed wire , mud, rubble and trenches. This series of tutorials also has lots of videos so you can actually see how it is done. CHeck out the tutorial here: How to make a world war 2 diorama

Video game design is a very popular profession and it is very much in demand. There are now plenty of institutions that have degree programs specifically for game design. I have a series of articles that explain what game design is and what a game designer does. This includes the whole process from beginning to end. Did you know that the creation of a new video game usually starts out with something called a Game Design Document? Creating this document or GDD is part of what a game designer does. Check out more information about this on my website: Video Game Design

DragonSlayer 3

This is my latest project. It is the Dragonslayer 3. This one is a serious upgrade to 1 and 2 and maybe I will be able to penetrate the Dragon’s Armor with this one! Watch a video of this here. The DragonSlayer 3

Make an Origami Gift Box

Nice beginner project on how to make a Japanese Origami Gift box. All you need is eight squares of paper. I have a video tutorial that shows you step by step how to make these great looking gift boxes. How to make an Origami Gift Box

All About Telescope Mirrors

This is a article I have written that explains all about telescope mirrors, how they work and the different types there are. Telescope Mirrors

I spent all day yesterday upgrading and updating my medieval swords website. This is a popular site that gets good ranking in google. I finally scheduled time to work on it. In particular I renovated some of the design and I updated all of the various swords on the site. Since my last upgrade there have been a lot of great swords that have come out. One in particular is the Assassin’s Creed Altair sword which is available to collectors and fans of the game. On the Medieval sword site  you can also read reviews and see pics of some of the swords I own. 

The altair sword is on my Video Game weapons page here: Video Game Swords

On my fantasy guide website I have started a new section all about Vampire stories and novels. This section includes reviews of some of the more popular recent series in the genre and a guide to the history of the vampire story. You can read it here: The Fantasy Guide to Vampire Novels

This is an extensive article that I have written about kids making video games. It goes in depth into the creative aspects of video game making and I review the more popular software products that are available for kids of various ages. There are a lot of great programs out there that can really help kids expand their creativity into the world of making their own video games: Kids Make Video Games

This is a complete tutorial project on how to make a fast and easy tennis ball trebuchet. This thing has power. But the focus of this tutorial is how to easily make one. I use just a few different things and some two by fours. Nice project if you want to make a siege engine that is mid sized. How to make a tennis ball trebuchet.

Here is a nice little project I have put together on how to make a small refractor telescope. All it takes is a couple of lenses and a couple of cardboard tubes. This tutorial has all the information you need including how to figure out the lenses. Its on my telescope nerd website: How to make a small telescope

I have a whole bunch of new posts on my Search for the meaning of life blog. This has been an on-going project for quite some time now and recently the blog has been getting a lot of attention. Do you have some thoughts on the Meaning of life? Would love to have you comment.

Recent Posts include:

• I get the distinct feeling…
• Asking the right question
• 47 minutes to think about

Join me in the most important quest of all.

The Search for the Meaning of life