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anonymousblack
08 July 2008 @ 02:41 am
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ladies and gentlemen:

after eight (count them!) EIGHT long months, ben has finally finished the wedding present for his brother.

they've received it, stumbling across spoilers on our respective livejournals is no longer an issue, so ben has compiled a fantastically illustrated livejournal post (complete with video) and i am linking you along.

ben is... he's like.... man... there are not enough superlatives on livejournal, okay?

go see for yourself by clicking on the picture:

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enjoy!
 
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[info]laughingwoman on July 8th, 2008 07:27 am (UTC)
that is the most amazing, personal and did i say AMAZING? wedding gift i've ever seen! well worth the wait, i'd say. how did the happy couple react?
[info]anonymousblack on July 8th, 2008 08:30 pm (UTC)
oh, they loved it. mike was actually giddy, which i'd never seen before. jeni was really excited but a little afraid to touch it at first. they just got a new house so there was much discussion of the possibilities of where they'd be featuring it. i can't wait to see what they decide.
[info]lucystrawberry on July 8th, 2008 12:35 pm (UTC)
um.
[info]lucystrawberry on July 8th, 2008 12:36 pm (UTC)
that is so frackin awesome.
[info]anonymousblack on July 8th, 2008 08:33 pm (UTC)
i know, right?! i still can't believe he not only thought of it but managed to figure out how to do it.
[info]muted_rain on July 9th, 2008 12:20 am (UTC)
thanks - it was one of those projects where... you love working on it, but at the exact same time you feel it slowly dragging you down. and the more you do, the more you think you should do. but so awesome once it's all done.
[info]neopolaris on July 8th, 2008 12:52 pm (UTC)
Insanity. This is awesome.
I also forgot that they got married on the same day as me and Mike.
[info]anonymousblack on July 8th, 2008 08:34 pm (UTC)
isn't it? I NEED TO GET THIS BOY INTO A GALLERY. seriously!!
[info]ethedrone on July 8th, 2008 02:06 pm (UTC)
oh wow! now that is awesome
[info]anonymousblack on July 8th, 2008 08:35 pm (UTC)
yay! thank you!
[info]disentangling on July 8th, 2008 03:21 pm (UTC)
this is so impressive!
[info]anonymousblack on July 8th, 2008 08:39 pm (UTC)
indeed! i'd be lying if i didn't admit i'm struggling back the "not worthies." the ben brain, it is magnificent.
[info]dyskodyke on July 8th, 2008 04:57 pm (UTC)
That is one of the awesomest things I've ever seen. I am blown away!
[info]anonymousblack on July 8th, 2008 08:45 pm (UTC)
seriously! i'm so glad he can finally show the pictures to people.
[info]bifemmefatale on July 8th, 2008 09:17 pm (UTC)
Totally awesome wedding present. Much better than a blender.
[info]muted_rain on July 9th, 2008 12:22 am (UTC)
damnit... if i had thought of giving them a blender, i coulda saved eight months of my life!
[info]sanslimites on July 11th, 2008 03:26 am (UTC)
This is amazing. I've always wanted to do things like this, but i'm one of those people who gets pieces stuck to my fingers with glue and can't figure out why the gears are going backwards.

This is definitely the coolest wedding present I've ever seen.
[info]anonymousblack on July 15th, 2008 12:36 am (UTC)
hah! ben spent the last eight months with a thin coating of superglue over his fingers and actually broke a major mechanism the night before he was going to present it. (that worked out for the best, though, because he was able to put in a new and WAY QUIETER motor.) "box related mood swings" were quite the norm when things weren't working quite right. so, you know, if you want to do things like this, the best thing to do is just plunge in and try.

that's one of the things i find so amazing about him--he's so willing to just jump right in and try something like this!

he did these back at christmas. i think he was developing some of the skills he used for this project, personally. ;-)

[info]nevarra on July 12th, 2008 06:37 pm (UTC)
Can I just say how many times I've gone back and looked at the video and checked out the pics? This is such awesome-ness.

Serious serious awesome-ness. Yay ben!!!