Rudhraigh

FULLY OPERATIONAL BATTLE STATION from Rudhraigh McGrath on Vimeo.

NOW WITNESS THE POWER OF MY BOREDOM

So like, a couple of Christmasses ago, my brother gave me one of the most awesome Christmas presents I’ve ever received. A three thousand piece Lego Death Star. As a child of the Star Wars obsessed generation I was one of the wave of fanatical kids who believed that the Star Wars Trilogy was the definitive adventure of their lives. This meant that to me, all moons weren’t moons. They were fucking space stations. And there was no way you could convince me otherwise. I’m sure that for at least a fairly significant portion of my childhood, I was convinced that at any stage, our moon could excrete an entire fleet of Tie Fighters and/or destroy the Earth with it’s super lazer at it’s whim. I must say that whatever else it did, it certainly resulted in a markedly improved standard of behaviour on my part whenever I had to go outdoors at night, as well as a lot of mid-day practicing at throwing stones at a 2 meter long trench from my bike.

So, the prospect of actually building the Death Star was a pretty confusing process. Mostly because in my eyes there was a pretty good chance that it would vaporize me halfway through if I didn’t manage to maintain the molecular cohesion of the singularity at it’s core. It meant that a while back, I tried to build it, but stopped halfway through because of fear of creating a Galactic Superweapon that could spell the end of Universal Democracy.*

But, yesterday, I started again. And, using some of the stuff I had made before, got this far.

Death Star 2 from Rudhraigh McGrath on Vimeo.

May God, and the Emperor, have mercy on us all.

*Laziness.