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Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

Project: 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/

Selfie, holding a small inhaler device Inhaler device with vinyl tubing, yellowed 3D printed parts, and an oxygen mask. 3 drawn aluminum bottles with replica labels applied
Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

Project: 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.

Lord Canti helmet featuring the broken back and makeshift halo Me in full cosplay reading a magazine in a bus station.
Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

Project: Animal Skin Speakers

I made these speakers from natural drumskins in the style of wooden drums. I built the drum shells from oak and welded my own rings to tension the heads. The coils were wrapped on cylinders of goatskin. I used huge neodymium magnets to make them work. Drums obviously make terrible speakers because they're designed to be resonant at a single frequency. They still sounded pretty good for what they were.

The stereo one used a hand carved cross as a cap-touch on/off.

A set of speakers made from goatskin and oak with blued steel hardware. Another set of drumskin speakers. This time a small boombox and two hexagonal accessory speakers. Closeup of the small boombox. A wooden box with a steel frame that tensions two square drumskins on the front. A quartz point in a copper socket acts as an indicator lamp. Close-up of the stereo shelf-system. Two round speakers on steel legs are connected to a central wooden box with a steel frame.
Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

Project: Occult Pokémon Objects

These were some things that I 3D-printed, distressed, and painted to explore the idea of occultism in the Pokémon universe. An engraved Cubone skull and an engraved bone pokéball.

A small bone-white pokeball with gold inlay and John Dee's Sigilum Dei engraved in the top The occult pokeball arranged on a table with crystals and a Cubone skull Cubone Skull engraved with the Team Valor logo
Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

Project: Laser cut leather stitched masks

Leather is an awesome material because it's dimensionally stable and easy to work like wood, but malleable like fabric. I designed and stitched some masks using veg-tanned tooling leather. A classic plague mask and this ornate little deer with carved wooden antlers.

Selfie. Wearing a leather plague mask with a long, laced-up beak. The plague mask before dyeing and final stitching. There is laser engraved detail on the beak. Close-ups of the deer mask showing white-painted wooden antlers with gold -tips The deer mask with one antler in place for testing.
Nick Poole
@North@chaos.social

That's probably enough spamming the timeline for now. I'll add stuff later if I find anything vaguely worth sharing. Some of this stuff is on my Instagram which I never use anymore but never got a proper write-up.

Hope you were inspired!

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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org

@North@chaos.social

You are a volcano of ideas!