Nick Poole
Nick PooleProject: Rococo Jacket
I raided the upholstery section of Jo-Ann's Fabrics to put together a Rococo look for a company holiday party (that was not rococo themed)
I wore it with short breeches, white tights, gold sneakers, and a floral fitted cap.
Nick PooleBonus Material: I found a picture of me wearing it.
Nick PooleProject: GITS Inhalers
In the live-action Ghost in the Shell movie, club-goers were using these inhalers. They showed up on the Propstore auctions and I saved all of the photos instantly.
I re-drew the label graphics in Inkscape (I still have the vector files for anyone interested) and transferred them onto aluminum spray cans from Amazon using a packing tape toner transfer method. I built the rest from flame-distressed 3D printed parts and a cheap oxygen mask.
https://propstore.com/product/ghost-in-the-shell-2017/three-handheld-huffers/
Nick PooleProject: Lord Canti Head (FLCL)
This was my second Canti cosplay for DragonCon. Made from foam, lasercut acrlyic, PVC pipe, wire, and a curved acrylic screen made by slumping acrylic in a laser-cut frame with a heat gun. I put this together in an incredible time-crunch and re-used the display electronics from my first Canti cosplay. Everything still smelled like paint when I got to the hotel.
Nick PooleProject: LED Blotter
As a test of the boardhouse's willingness to drill a ton of mousebites, I designed these breakaway LED boards in the style of LSD blotter with the notorious Orange Sunshine blotter art in the silkscreen.
Nick PooleProject: GITS Inhalers
In the live-action Ghost in the Shell movie, club-goers were using these inhalers. They showed up on the Propstore auctions and I saved all of the photos instantly.
I re-drew the label graphics in Inkscape (I still have the vector files for anyone interested) and transferred them onto aluminum spray cans from Amazon using a packing tape toner transfer method. I built the rest from flame-distressed 3D printed parts and a cheap oxygen mask.
https://propstore.com/product/ghost-in-the-shell-2017/three-handheld-huffers/
Nick PooleProject: Glowing Collar for Chest Harness
This leather chest harness is something I wore for a long time, I made it from heavy veg-tanned tooling leather and it held my sunglasses, wallet, knife, keys, etc. I made a cyberpunk style EL collar for it out of matching leather. I ran electrical connections through snaps, which worked great.
Nick PooleProject: LED Blotter
As a test of the boardhouse's willingness to drill a ton of mousebites, I designed these breakaway LED boards in the style of LSD blotter with the notorious Orange Sunshine blotter art in the silkscreen.
Nick PooleProject: Solarpunk/Outer Sprawl Clothes
I made some clothing that incorporated imaginary logographs, fishing net, and composite sail-cloth. The idea was that this was clothing from a fishing village on a newly sea-side part of the outer sprawl.
Printing is spray-dye using laser-cut stencils. Sail polymer is machine stitched, with some difficulty.
Nick PooleProject: Glowing Collar for Chest Harness
This leather chest harness is something I wore for a long time, I made it from heavy veg-tanned tooling leather and it held my sunglasses, wallet, knife, keys, etc. I made a cyberpunk style EL collar for it out of matching leather. I ran electrical connections through snaps, which worked great.
Nick PooleProject: DIY Nuclear Battery Kit
This was a SparkFun product, briefly. Turns out there isn't a big market for artisanal radioisotope photovoltaic batteries. I had to hand-cast all of the rubber gaskets that hold the tritium vials in place, so they were expensive to make. Also, it was BYOT (Bring Your Own Tritium) but even then, there's probably only so long you can poke the NRC.
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/nuclear-battery-assembly-guide/all
Nick PooleProject: Solarpunk/Outer Sprawl Clothes
I made some clothing that incorporated imaginary logographs, fishing net, and composite sail-cloth. The idea was that this was clothing from a fishing village on a newly sea-side part of the outer sprawl.
Printing is spray-dye using laser-cut stencils. Sail polymer is machine stitched, with some difficulty.
Nick PooleProject: Architectural Model
There was a period of time when my plan was to buy some land and build my own workshop. This was an architectural model that I built to explore my "dream workshop" design.
I ended up finding an even larger and better constructed building already standing, where my shop is now. Crazy.
Nick PooleProject: DIY Nuclear Battery Kit
This was a SparkFun product, briefly. Turns out there isn't a big market for artisanal radioisotope photovoltaic batteries. I had to hand-cast all of the rubber gaskets that hold the tritium vials in place, so they were expensive to make. Also, it was BYOT (Bring Your Own Tritium) but even then, there's probably only so long you can poke the NRC.
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/nuclear-battery-assembly-guide/all
Nick PooleProject: Rococo Jacket
I raided the upholstery section of Jo-Ann's Fabrics to put together a Rococo look for a company holiday party (that was not rococo themed)
I wore it with short breeches, white tights, gold sneakers, and a floral fitted cap.
Nick PooleProject: Architectural Model
There was a period of time when my plan was to buy some land and build my own workshop. This was an architectural model that I built to explore my "dream workshop" design.
I ended up finding an even larger and better constructed building already standing, where my shop is now. Crazy.
Nick PooleProject: Dubblecup
This was a candidate for a crowd-funded novelty project that I did quite a bit of brand development on before abandoning. It's a ceramic cup that looks like two styrofoam cups stacked together. The packaging is based on the actavis packaging for prometh with codeine. This was at the tail end of the vaporwave-era lean/syrup revival.
This photo is of a 3D printed mock-up but I had one made of ceramic by shapeways that I still drink out of.
Nick PooleProject: Rococo Jacket
I raided the upholstery section of Jo-Ann's Fabrics to put together a Rococo look for a company holiday party (that was not rococo themed)
I wore it with short breeches, white tights, gold sneakers, and a floral fitted cap.
Nick PooleProject: Perfect-bound Journal
I kept a travelling journal with an ex of mine while we were dating and then many years after. I made the original with wooden covers and brass hinges but it was mostly destroyed from years of handling and posting. While visiting home for the holidays, I stopped at a local stationery shop and scraped together the supplies to re-bind it with some added blank pages before handing it off.
Nick PooleProject: Dubblecup
This was a candidate for a crowd-funded novelty project that I did quite a bit of brand development on before abandoning. It's a ceramic cup that looks like two styrofoam cups stacked together. The packaging is based on the actavis packaging for prometh with codeine. This was at the tail end of the vaporwave-era lean/syrup revival.
This photo is of a 3D printed mock-up but I had one made of ceramic by shapeways that I still drink out of.