Capturing our nerdy childhood - artist Craig Davison

Started by nikharwood, 21 February 2014, 12:02:31 AM

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nikharwood

These are superb - from here: http://nerdapproved.com/approved-products/this-artist-brilliantly-captures-our-nerdy-childhood/#rfDlliw0QWQc7WHP.30

"The series shows fictional characters in the background as shadows, and kids standing in front of them, pretending to be those characters. Just looking at them makes me feel like a child again."
















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nikharwood

Quote from: Ithoriel on 21 February 2014, 12:40:18 AM
Very nice. Great find. Thanks

You're welcome.

Hang on - why is not every single user of this forum not looking at nerdapproved.com then? Eh? Eh?!! :-B :-B :-B

Leon

These are excellent, I might be pinching this for my Facebook.

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Ithoriel

21 February 2014, 02:09:25 AM #6 Last Edit: 21 February 2014, 02:15:10 AM by Ithoriel
Link already up on mine Leon. Good aren't they!

Takes me back to making a Darth Vader outfit for my younger son to wear to school when they had a day where you could turn up in fancy dress if you made a small contribution to charity. Probably not the best fancy dress ever but my son and I were happy with it!

Following year he was Angel from the Buffy spin-off. Far easier to do!
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So cool 8)

Love the Princess Leah and Darth Vader ones :-bd

Nosher

Love it - lots, very much my childhood era the clothes and back when kids were allowed to be kids for a while before the government decided they should all be adults at 2...

Love the Boba Fett - and what a novel use for a mastik gun!
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Matt J

takes me back to my youth, great pics.

kids just don't play like this now-a-days. As a parent its partly my fault, if my son wants to dress up as iron man then he has the suit, the mask, the shooter. He has suits for power rangers, turtles, spiderman etc etc no need to pretend, just didn't have that option when I was a kid.
On saying that my son much prefers to run around the woods hitting things with sticks so maybe all isn't lost  :D
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nikharwood

Quote from: Matt of Munslow on 21 February 2014, 10:17:17 AM
takes me back to my youth, great pics.

kids just don't play like this now-a-days. As a parent its partly my fault, if my son wants to dress up as iron man then he has the suit, the mask, the shooter. He has suits for power rangers, turtles, spiderman etc etc no need to pretend, just didn't have that option when I was a kid.
On saying that my son much prefers to run around the woods hitting things with sticks so maybe all isn't lost  :D

Aha - I've got one of those as well  8)

Ithoriel

Quote from: Matt of Munslow on 21 February 2014, 10:17:17 AM
takes me back to my youth, great pics.

kids just don't play like this now-a-days. As a parent its partly my fault, if my son wants to dress up as iron man then he has the suit, the mask, the shooter. He has suits for power rangers, turtles, spiderman etc etc no need to pretend, just didn't have that option when I was a kid.
On saying that my son much prefers to run around the woods hitting things with sticks so maybe all isn't lost  :D

My boys, who are now both in their twenties, were living proof of the adage that if you give a kid an expensive toy in a box they'll discard the toy and spend all day playing with the box!
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GordonY

Yep I once bought mine an AA pedal car with trailer, he spent the entire day in the box pretending it was a ................ car. Go figgur!

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Quote from: GordonY on 21 February 2014, 11:14:59 AM
Yep I once bought mine an AA pedal car with trailer, he spent the entire day in the box pretending it was a ................ car. Go figgur!

Just shows the power of context. I was quite impresses with an Aniti-Aircraft pedal car.  =)
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