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Things Worth Remembering

The three habits that lead to success are: Patience, Application, and Vision.

Take care: The person who will tell others' faults to you - will tell yours to others.

It is always better to be underestimated.

There are three things that are better than riches: Health, Freedom, and Honor.

Think swiftly, speak softly, act wisely.

"The world is neither Scottish, English, nor Irish, neither French, Dutch, nor Chinese, but human, and each nation is only the partial development of a universal humanity." - James Grant on founding the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights, 1862

All from: The Book of Celtic Wisdom

The maker has returned!

“The maker has returned!” – C-3PO, Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones


Not that he ever really went anywhere, but it always give me a little thrill to see that Balakov has put up another Lego Star Wars picture on the photo-sharing site Flickr. The most recent one, a Storm Trooper knitting, went straight to my heart.

A Storm Trooper Knitting

A Storm Trooper Knitting by Balakov

After such a depressing post yesterday, I decided that I owed you all a little bit of happiness. Therefore, I’m going to share my most favorite Lego Star Wars action-figure-making-find. Don’t say I never gave you anything.

Remember the Storm Trooper on a Bicycle picture? Yeah, that’s Balakov’s handiwork. If you check out the ‘Sets’, you’ll see that he photographs more than just Star Wars with Legos, but those are – not surprisingly – some of my favorites.

UPDATE: And to answer Eileen’s question, there are many of Balakov’s images available as prints and cards at RedBubble, but this one is not available yet. Go leave a comment to Balakov about your desire for this particular image to be available as a print, and I’m willing to bet that he would be happy to oblige you.

May the Force be with us all, Share!

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