#wintergatan

[aroorchid-slenderwoman]

Just saw a post on Instagram about how it's a good thing most YouTubers that are popular aren't villains and that gave me ideas so here's what I've got

Hero group:

Milo Rossi - debunker and government hater,

Pirate software - military hacker and group leader,

Brian David Gilbert - collector of knowledge and spell caster/vampire

Main antagonistic villain group:

Name: the Paradox Association

PBS space time - violates physical laws,

stand up maths - violates mathematical laws,

Veritasium - spell caster and leader of the group,

3b1b - actually a sentient computer program,

Vsauce - joker of the group,

Hank green - lex Luthor of the group

Villains of the week:

Usually summoned by the Paradox association

McNally - rouge thief marksman,

Nilered - mad chemist,

Rainbolt - assassin who stalks social medias,

Jerma - riddler or some form of lizard person,

Combo class - mathematically perfect arsonist,

Alan becker - has electrokinesis and stick figure minions,

Wintergatan - musical mad man and inventor of clockwork beings,

Action lab - bombs,

Honorable mentions for people I was too tired to come up with powers for but would be villains:

Sabine hossenfelder,

Douglas Douglas,

Numberphile,

Probably some of those Minecraft YouTubers but I don't watch any

Tally hall

[charactersmashorpass-2]

"if this counts as a character I'll be blown away. But yeah i would fuck this thing"

[grand-army-radio]

This one is for Tech.

[fipindustries]

if there is one thing one learns when following the marbe machine series all the way to today is that the very first original video of the marble machine is basically a complete lie. the thing required multiple takes, the machine was constantly breaking between one shot and the other and the only reason it looks as good as it does is probably more due to editing than due to any engineering accomplishment by martin himself

[i-m-abett]

Percussionists please listen

Man you know marching band might have stolen four years of my life and I still have nightmares about it ten years later but

This song would make such a slapping percussion section warm-up oh my GOD

I wish I knew how to write music lol

All the parts are there!!! Pretty much

Like the marimba part would be the most complicated (but certainly not impossible for high schoolers) I think and idk if the snare stuff is easy or hard but it's already written in there as the typewriter and I lov e this song

Vibes/bells would have it pretty easy which is better for beginner players anyway

Idk about the rest though

Anyway just wanted to share ;-; I would send it to my old percussion instructor because he's a master at writing / transcribing but he ended up being a creepy PDF file :') rip

[h0n3yk1tt3n]

Wintergatan's Marble Machine (marble machine version) is a very different song from Marble Machine (piano version)

The machine version is bouncy and playful and the bass and percussion gives it a contrasting grit that's very fun to listen to. You play it and start bobbing your head and jamming out

The piano version is slower and more melancholy and highlights how the lack of other instruments makes it feel much lonelier. You play this when you're imagining a heartbreaking scene for your otp

[maybeasunflower]

Pipe Dream but it's Marble Machine (Animusic)

Full circle...

[steampaul]

i've started a little series of weekly posts documenting every MoC i made (digitally) over the last few years:

Week 9: 2022

some old MoCs returning, lego art, 90th anniversary toa team, video game stuff and more Rock Raiders (yay)

this one will be the penultimate week.

remember back in week 2 (2018) where i tested out the differences in rendering between stud.io 1 and 2? i tested out the mecabricks extention for Blender to render some digital bricks.

this took way too long to setup and render, so i decided to not use blender for rendering after that (escpecially after the win11 updated fucked with my graphics card)

another mandalorian s2 set MoC. din djarins N1 starfighter, based on the last N1 set we had back in 2015. i think these proportions aren't good, but a bit better than the official set. (its still too big though)

the Horizon: forbidden west set was also teased/revealed around that time, so i decided to make a diorama with just the watcher (and one with a corrupted one) that would be a bit more managable in both cost and size than the tallneck.

i still got the tallneck, becauce those robot dinos are cool as hell and i want to support video game based sets, even though i am a big supporter of the concept that LEGO should make more original themes instead of big and expensive licensed sets (like rivendell....)

some greebles inspired by the ones on the Icons (formerly master builder) "theme" of sets, also my header image for tumblr.

back in 2017 (week one) i made The Slugcat Portrait mosaic, and i decided in 2022 that i would remake it to be more in line with the way i would built with bricks at that time. i think i improved wuite a bit.

i like the 90 years of play tahu, even if his design was considered to be controversial, so i decided to make the full 2001 set lineup for bionicle. i think they turned out pretty good, but i find it a bit annoying that the maccaroni piece does not exist in tan or medium blue (a dicontinued colour)

anyone remeber Valley? the momentum-based FPS platformer? no? it wasn't really mind-blowing, but i still enjoyed the movement and flow of the game. i also always wanted to try out the Legoland Miniland style of character building. this was the perfect opportunity to combine both of these things.

i think the proportions might be a bit off, but i still like this little desk friend

someone asked me on twitter to send them the instructions for my marble machine MoC (as seen in week 7), but i didn't want to give them such and outdated build, so i re-designed it to be more up to date.

they ended up giving me about 14 $ for these instructions, which made me pretty happy.

i tried to make a micro-scale version of the exo-force set 7701 Grand Titan. i really dislike the way this one turned out.

Lego Ideas had yet another contest. this one was about designing a poster for the then new 21334 Jazz Quartet. i called this one "Golden Sounds" and it is the first mosaic-type MoC that i made where i first sketched it out to kinda figure out how i wanted it to look.

i like the way this one turned out, but i think i should've built it in such a way that the colours in the background wouldn't be as dim.

remember last week when i said i wanted to make more Rock raiders MoCs? turns out i did. a lot too.

this VTOL-style transport vehicle was kinda inspired by those industrial transport helicopters and was supposed to be some sort of reimagining of 4980 tunnel transport. i think it's a bit too clunky and a bit too skinny at the same time. not my favourite.

also there's a modular open container (is that what they're called?) that can be fixed under the vehicle. (as well as the room container that you'll see next)

Modular bases are so cool you guys. this one is inspired by 4990 Rock Raiders HQ and those big old moving platforms Nasa uses. it could be controlled with a motor, has a removable cockpit (with an access hatch) and the platform has a lot of room for modules. like the crystal refinery, the room container, the high platforms, the crane and the crane attachment holder.

here are a few variants for the room container: an artifact storage with workbench, a small break room and a laboratory. i like those and i might do more in some time in the future. idk yet.

my take on the rock monsters. some crystal infested/energized Fauna.

first some bipedal designs (the left one is a modded version of a deviant form an eternals sets) that could be more agressive carnivore types.

in the middle are some quadrupedal guys that could be a bit less agressive and even friendly. Left is a modded version of my SCP 860 creature from week 4 (which was based on either an legendary beast from Chima or a dragon from elves) and the right one is a recolour from the fluffy-tailed Hog from my satisfactory series from week 3

and lastly, some insectoid designs, a kind of beetly creature and two ants, one of them with wings. these could be some sort of neutral (like in minecraft) swarm that might be a problem for buildings and cocky miners.

this is probably my favourite of my Rock Raiders Builds from 2022. it's 4920 rapid rider built with modern pieces that has been overtaken by the energy crytals. it can be fully freed from crystal and reassebled, which is nice.

we'll see another rapid rider next week...

first week last week final week

[electriccelery93]

🌍Earth Day Special Music Video "Green Paradise" featuring David Attenborough and music from Wintergatan

This video is purely fan-made and has no affiliation with The BBC, David Attenborough, nor Wintergatan.

“The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now have. That lays upon us, whether we like it or not, an awesome responsibility. In our hands now lies not only our own future, but that of all other living creatures with whom we share the earth.” -David Attenborough

[scrunkledorf]

fuck man the marble machine saga is so fascinating because you can see Martin learn engineering over time. In the original marble machine he is an artist working off what he thinks up. And then in the marble machine X he’s figured out CAD and starts doing a bit of design. But now, with marble machine 3 he’s properly engineering it! He’s establishing design requirements with testable goals and working through designs before throwing it all in CAD.

[mavablod]

WINTERGATAN THIS SONG I LOVE

WINTERGATAN I TEELLL YOOOUU THERE MSUIC THE MARBEL MASKING LIKE AWHAG TYHR E A LISTEN LITEN LOOOKKK!!!!

[fipindustries]

ok what the fuck

for the love of god, if you were ever interested or invested at all in the wintergatan marble machine project, skip to 8:10

its done, someone else grabbed the MMX and finished it for him, while he is building castles in the air and chasing some harebrained scheeme other people swoop in and finished the machine and they show up at the end of this video

[i-am-a-megalodon]

Funny story:

Years ago, when I was a teenager, I was OBSESSED obsessed with Wintergatan. Like, knew all the songs, knew about Martin Molin’s side projects, geeked out about all the cool instruments he’s made even though I know nothing about engineering, etc. That special interest (yes I can call it a special interest I have a childhood autism diagnosis) lasted about 2-3 years and then it faded to the point of me forgetting about it entirely.

Fast forward to my college years, and my mom and I are chatting with our neighbor. Our neighbor says “hey I saw this cool video of this musical marble machine” and BOOM like a sleeper agent I snapped to attention and infodumped in full fangirl mode and continued to infodump even after my mom and neighbor had switched conversation topics.

I was so embarrassed after that moment.

Anyway that embarrassing moment was like 5-6 years ago which is long enough for me to find it funny in hindsight

do you guys ever like forget you're interested in something until you start engaging with it again and you go "oh wait i'm like crazy crazy about this yeah"

[wokeupwiththissong]

Starmachine2000 - Wintergatan

[femmmie]

hell yeah

[golgafrincham]

I love love this guy's approach to making art (music) so much. He's come full circle from fretting about the physics of flywheels to focusing on what sparks joy and just looks cool. You need both.