Hoops Laboratories

08/20/2024

Pretty self-explanatory. Coffee table doodle.

08/18/2024

It's 10,000 B.C.
You're just trying to focus on your job, punching the clock as a priest in Thulsa Doom's snake cult. It's been a crazy Tuesday morning. A rush of new employees showed up right after opening. They all need uniforms.
Nobody brewed coffee, Cameron called in sick from his tent flap...
But you're hangin' in there, Ningishzida let you do a blinker on her Black Lotus v**e, and you're just trying to hide behind a rock long enough to even-out before you dive back into the rush...
then...
A cutie your own age walks up and starts flirting with you. They wink at you and ask you to help them get undressed behind a secluded rock? You feel the wave of seduction carry you effortlessly behind the rock, where you are double-fist punched in the stomach, then double-fist walloped on the back of the head unconscious. Clothes, phone, manager's pass key, all stolen. After you wake up, you just sit with your naked butt in the dirt, with your back against the cold, uncomfortable rock. You just keep saying to yourself, "How does this keep happening to me?".
All I'm sayin' is that if there's someone out there who would like to help me flesh out this throwaway character from Conan the Barbarian 1982 for a graphic novel? I'm down.
Think traveling Back-of-House manager for tourist trap restaurants, but you're a C-student wizard in Robert E. Howard's Hyborian age?

06/23/2019

Interesting ball in a cage tilt switch design. Could be used in conjunction with a personal key chain alarm to set off an alarm if someone messes with your backpack or stuff in general?

06/14/2019

Idea Book page 103

09/02/2017

http://rcpunkarchive.com/index.php?title=Joh_Neilson%27s_Knife_World_-_Unknown_Recording

06/06/2017

Sometimes you just gotta do whatever it takes to keep going.

04/10/2017

04/09/2017

Inspired by our obsession with the Miller Falls designer Robert W. Huxtable and his "Buck Rogers" line of futuristic yet practical hand tools.
https://workingbyhand.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/atomic-era-buck-rogers-tools/
We at Hoops Laboratories have sought to humbly continue adding our offerings to the line of futuristic yet practical tools, while also using recycled and scavenged materials.
Thank You,

We thought it only fair that Hoops Laboratories offer up it's version of Super Maker Jimmy DeResta's now legendary Ice Pick https://youtu.be/-G63uijctXo
Our offering The Scratchawl mark 1 has been unanimously described as resembling an Alien a**l probe. A design flaw that will be attended to during the design of the mark 2 prototype.
Materials: Tool Steel Awl, two CO2 cartridges for the handle, oak dowel and 2 part epoxy (for handle interior), steel tubing (from broken lamp), steel ball (from broken plunger coffee press).
And Laura Kampf's practical design skills
https://youtu.be/Xm6m0rNUmLk

09/11/2016

Kelly is now in a creepy relationship with a printer.

06/16/2016

Finishing up Gwen's stilletto dagger. The blade is made out of a high carbon ice skate. The handle is brass, leather spacers, and black African Ebony.

05/17/2016

Keith Umenthum is fighting ghosts with quality woodworking. -
Keith just finished ANOTHER coffin for ANOTHER skeleton that someone found in Deadwood South Dakota. In case you didn't know, you can't stick a shovel in the ground in Deadwood without hitting a human skeleton. This has something to do with the 100 murders per day that the town experienced during the gold rush days. Keith is a master woodworker which makes him the go-to-guy for these Poltergeist situations.
http://m.bhpioneer.com/local_news/article_e4177890-6df5-11e1-aae6-001871e3ce6c.html?mode=jqm