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fail whale

fail whale

I just whipped up this design in inkscape. Inkscape isn’t too hard to use if you’re not measuring things. I just eyeballed everything, which required some tweaking. I outputted a dxf file, uploaded it to my new little archive of public lazzzor files. Then on the lazzzor computor, I imported it into CorelDraw and set the vector settings for cardboard which is 30/50/100, turned on the compressor for the air assist, turned on the filter, screamed “FIRE THE LASER!” and pushed the green button.

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  1. Hack a Day Fail Whale Contest | Techible.net September 4th, 2008 11:32 pm

    [...] While we’re adding more hamsters to our server power plant we thought we’d hold a little art contest. Whenever Twitter goes down, they post the iconic Fail Whale. The Fail Whale has become so popular that it has spawned a dedicated blog and many many art projects: embroidery, tattoos, and laser cut models. [...]

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