{"id":18277,"date":"2013-07-15T08:08:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T15:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=9580"},"modified":"2013-07-15T08:08:33","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T15:08:33","slug":"stay-frosty-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/15\/stay-frosty-star-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay frosty, Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Vesa Lehtim\u00e4ki makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/rawfile\/2013\/02\/star-wars-lego#slideid-15662\">terrific images of Legos on Hoth<\/a>.\u00a0On Flickr he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/avanaut\/4165241605\/in\/set-72157622598924063\">shares some of his techniques<\/a>\u00a0(e.g. creating snow by using\u00a0ground plaster of Paris flakes underwater).<\/li>\n<li>Adobe&#8217;s own Christian Cantrell makes tons of fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microkosmic.com\/comic\/tag\/star-wars\">Lego Star Wars portraits<\/a> (e.g. the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microkosmic.com\/comic\/tag\/star-wars?currentPage=3\">pet AT-AT<\/a> below).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2013\/02\/battle-of-hoth\/\">Elsewhere<\/a> on Wired Spencer Ackerman breaks down what Kottke calls &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/13\/02\/the-hubris-and-folly-of-darth-vader-at-hoth\">The hubris and folly of Darth Vader at Hoth<\/a>.&#8221; (Pro tip: &#8220;Don&#8217;t place unaccountable religious fanatics in wartime command, and never underestimate a hegemonic power&#8217;s ability to miscalculate against an insurgency.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>On Quora someone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/Star-Wars-movie-book-and-general-franchise\/Did-the-Rebel-Alliance-really-blow-up-the-Death-Star-or-was-it-all-planned-by-Vader-and-the-Emperor-to-drum-up-support-for-their-war-against-the-terrorists\">dares to ask<\/a>, &#8220;Did the Rebel Alliance really blow up the Death Star, or was it all planned by Vader and the Emperor to drum up support for their war against the terrorists?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/completenerdom.com\/at-at-re-visioned-as-other-iconic-vehicles\/at-at-pussy-wagon\/#\">this<\/a>\u2026 I don&#8217;t even know what to say about this. But I want to drive it, immediately.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microkosmic.com\/comic\/tag\/star-wars?currentPage=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/files\/2013\/07\/ATAT.jpg\" alt=\"ATAT\" width=\"425\" height=\"347\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9581\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Vesa Lehtim\u00e4ki makes terrific images of Legos on Hoth.\u00a0On Flickr he shares some of his techniques\u00a0(e.g. creating snow by using\u00a0ground plaster of Paris flakes underwater). Adobe&#8217;s own Christian Cantrell makes tons of fun Lego Star Wars portraits (e.g. the pet AT-AT below). Elsewhere on Wired Spencer Ackerman breaks down what Kottke calls &#8220;The hubris and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}