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I made my first <em>Blade Runner</em> pistol when I was 18, while living in Hell's Kitchen, NYC. I stared at the VHS version on pause and made sketches. Put it together from toys and model kit parts. It's lovely and terrible:
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<br><p>(Years later the internet would teach me that the six dollar plastic gun I bought on Canal street in NYC and cannibalized for the grip was created by Edison Giacattoli, a legendary toy gun designer)
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I made a crazy accurate scratch-built when I was 30, from resin and bondo. I had great picture reference but shitty size reference, it was 20% too small. Fuck!
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I even had it chrome plated at one point and I weathered it:</p>
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<p>In 2006, the screen-used original surfaced after 25 some-odd years and sold at auction last year for $256,000.00. <strike>Supposedly to Paul Allen</strike> [That myth has been busted -- Mark]:</p>
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This is the final iteration:</p>
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<p>It's 95% finished. My hand-built baby. About 30-40 hours of labor spread out over (at least) 6 years. An original Steyr-Mannlicher .222 target rifle receiver and magazine and a Charter Arms Bulldog .44, both demilled and gunsmithed by me (working with hardened steel -- FUN!) with custom machined aluminum and steel parts (barrel, grip, butt) and made as close as possible, in every respect, to the original. Painstaking.</p>
<p><p>That is all I have to say on the subject (probably not). I can't even describe how good it feels to hold it in my hand. </p>
<p><em>[Click thumbnails below for enlargements]</em>
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<div><p>Yes, anyone can say that they value a nicely pressed shirt, that their employees are 100% aligned behind delivering a world-class pressed shirt experience, that their shirts are the mostly likely to be properly ironed, etc...</p><p>But can you actually do it? Over and over and over? Until it feels as natural as breathing, when it becomes the thing you just <em>do</em>?<br></p><p>Thus are reputations made. And reputation is the stuff really great brands and careers are made of.<br></p><p><embed allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="never" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IeA9gH_iWXY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" height="295" width="480" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.williamshatner.com/">William Shatner</a> reading <a href="http://twitter.com/ShitMyDadSays">@ShitMyDadSays</a> from <a href="http://blog.shortyawards.com/post/435130261/video-of-the-2nd-annual-shorty-awards">last week’s Shorty Awards</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ie935cc06a4035022666f553e0936ab6a">Shatner will be playing the Dad</a> in the televsion version of “Shit My Dad Says” on CBS.
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