Jul 28 2009Printing Press Gets TRON-ified, Glowy
Geekologie Reader Jason went and decked out an oldschool printing press TRON style (to celebrate the anniversary of the film earlier this month) by adding some glow in the dark tape. This is an animated gif, so if you give it a minute it'll automatically switch between lights on and lights off mode. Personally, I only like printing in the dark. Somebody get the switch. Now, who's ready to create some headlines? Feka dlawe wewa pinme awqiro bglkuv sweey. Success! Now rubber band and bag 'em, boys, it's raining out. Who just touched my butt?
DIY Friday: Pimp My Press [printeresting] (with several more animations)
Thanks Jason, now let's start our own newspaper!
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Reader Comments
1. naas - July 28, 2009 12:31 PM
zZZzzZZZzeeeoowwwWWP
2. naas - July 28, 2009 12:31 PM
I don't know how else to type out the sound that makes in my head... xXXxzzzZZP!
3. FDSY - July 28, 2009 12:34 PM
the sound it makes in my head goes like this:
PPPPPPRRRRRRRRROOOOOOKKKKKZZZZZZZZZZZZZZRRRRRRRRTTTM.
4. Jerry - July 28, 2009 12:34 PM
mmmm.....trony.
http://bootelicious.mybrute.com
5. Clint - July 28, 2009 12:35 PM
Looks more Battlezoneified than tronified :)
http://www.cosc.brocku.ca/Offerings/3P98/course/lectures/intro/Arcade-atari-battlezone1.png
6. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 28, 2009 12:36 PM
PSH! I did this to a mimeograph years ago! (not really, this is weak sauce)
7. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 28, 2009 12:46 PM
They should try to TRON-ify (stupid term) this.
http://www.frigginrandom.com/images/giant-inflatable-sun-vagina/
8. Lain - July 28, 2009 12:46 PM
But it really does look fake and photoshopped this time...
9. naas - July 28, 2009 12:52 PM
@7 hahaha
Do you think tronificate is more suitable? How about tronsform?
10. Faker - July 28, 2009 12:55 PM
Totally 'shopped. See the dim part on the bottom left where the shadow is when the light's on? That should definitely not be dimmed in the dark. Not to mention that nothing I know of glows green like that. Aaand not to mention the total lack of light diffusion in the dark shot... Yeah.
11. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 28, 2009 12:57 PM
Tronsform is a little better. How about, glow in the dark? Or fluorescent? These terms better discribe the very not like Tron printing press.
12. naas - July 28, 2009 1:04 PM
It's also important to know about the other machine behind the printing press, someone's likely to walk into it when the lights are off for a good ol game of tron in a print shop
13. Bethy - July 28, 2009 1:27 PM
this isnt a transformer.
14. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 28, 2009 1:30 PM
@13
Very observant of you. Would you like a cookie?
http://static.open.salon.com/files/cookie-monster3-7769871237963363.jpg
15. Ollie Williams - July 28, 2009 1:33 PM
It was me, I touched your butt.
16. Daisy - July 28, 2009 1:35 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max put a bra on his head, and some weird wires on his computer, and created a girl for him and his friend.
17. joe - July 28, 2009 1:51 PM
has anyone seen the trailer for the new TRON movie being made?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1IpPpB3iWI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog%2Eiso50%2Ecom%2F&feature=player_embedded
cause it's awesome.
18. naas - July 28, 2009 2:00 PM
@17 I've seen the recent trailer as well as the orig last year. Looks like they changed the logo because I remember the other one being T2ON or something like that
19. scurl - July 28, 2009 2:03 PM
this reminds me of when i had a paper route, except by the time you asked who was touching your butt, you knew who it was. "damnit joe, i know it's you, your's has that bend" or "george get off me, i can feel your warts"
and of course chapstick charlie...
20. naas - July 28, 2009 2:07 PM
@17 http://blog.filmrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/tron2_logo.jpg
21. Pat - July 28, 2009 3:15 PM
Well at least the trailer for "Tron: Legacy" looks better than this.
22. typewriter - July 28, 2009 4:41 PM
So wait. He took a picture, taped the entire printing press, and took another picture in the exact same angle? He had a tripod there the entire time? What about the other pictures in different angles? How are those possible?
Questions
23. cant think of anything funny - July 28, 2009 4:48 PM
My mom worked on Tron when she lived in LA which may or may not be the pinnicle of my family tree.
P.S. this is my first comment, I was so nervous i puked blood on my computer.
24. geekofan - July 29, 2009 3:43 AM
check this out >>
http://75684.onodot.com/
25. Graf Zeppelin - July 29, 2009 4:01 AM
@7 Now that's art. But my god. What happened to the guy on the ladder?
26. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 29, 2009 3:26 PM
@25
The same thing that happend to the bear when he went over the mountain.