technabob » day of the tentacle http://technabob.com/blog gadgets, gizmos, games, cool gadgets for geeks Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:41:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 papercraft xmas tree is a colorful fire hazard http://technabob.com/blog/2008/12/22/papercraft-xmas-tree-is-a-colorful-fire-hazard/ http://technabob.com/blog/2008/12/22/papercraft-xmas-tree-is-a-colorful-fire-hazard/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:53:36 +0000 alisha k. http://technabob.com/blog/?p=6568 There’s just something about most holiday decorations that screams fire hazard, but this one really takes that idea and runs with it. This Christmas tree, by deviantARTist Maire, is done up almost completely in papercraft. The few lone traditional ornaments look awfully forlorn (and seriously outnumbered).

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The decorations are a real mix, from gaming icons like Mario, Link, and Mega Man, to upstarts like the Weighted Companion Cube from Portal, and they’re all made out of paper (and the sweat of effort). It’s enough to make one wary of the candy canes. Paper is not so delicious, after all.

For those brave enough to try to recreate this tree, or do a mix of your own ornaments, a number of the instructions are available on Maire’s page, and others on the cubeecraft site. Now we just need to add some of these papercraft consoles.

[Maire's deviantART page via cubeelog]

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