365 Days of Photojournalism With Stormtroopers

Lanxon writes "Wired reports that for one French fan, the Stormtrooper has become an obsession. Stormtroopers 365 is a collection of wacky, witty, and artistic photographs that its creator Stéfan Le Dû has been adding to daily since 3 April 2009 when the project began. 'I got a new camera and I had some Stormtrooper figures sleeping in their blister packs for months. I wanted to start something a bit challenging on Flickr, and I had previously seen some awesome Star Wars toys pictures, and other "365" projects that I really liked,' he says. The two starring Stormtroopers — TK455 and TK479 — have run into cats, clocks, various household implements, and even a DeLorean sports car."

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[Gerafix]

You must be new here.

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[somersault]

You're definitely new here.

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[Z00L00K]

Say What?

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[somersault]

"What?"

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[alta]

yall shuddup, you're all new here

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[jnik]

Thank you for sparing me that :) We've had "slashdot is dead" thread drift ever since the "what's this slashdot BS, I miss chips & dips" babble died down.

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[Nathrael]

Say what again! I dare ya! I double-dare ya!

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[somersault]

"what again! I dare ya! I double-dare ya!"?

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[Tetsujin]

Hey moron, compare UIDs. He's been here a ltitle longer than u

Oooh, what a burn...

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[blair1q]

mod parent (-1 Truth Hurts)

Link to the full photo set -

[jchawk]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/sets/72157616350171741/ [flickr.com]

Enjoy.

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[thetoadwarrior]

I think the whole set is awesome. I'm on the look out now for a way to grab all the originals. I'd consider writing something myself but a couple hours with whisky makes my attention span for coding go right out the door!

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[PopeRatzo]

I think the whole set is awesome.

You understand that yesterday was April 1st, right?

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[pennyloafer]

It is worth the time to take a look at the series. There was a lot of work done on each take, and some are extremely well done & might give you a laugh or smile.

Oh, action figures?

[Tetsujin]

Blah, I thought he had a Stormtrooper costume and was going out and taking photos...

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[ImYourVirus]

Yeah that's what I thought, that would have been way cooler.

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[ELitwin]

I find your lack of artistic appreciation disturbing.

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[Tetsujin]

I find your lack of artistic appreciation disturbing.

It's just really not half as impressive a project as it sounded from the headline, is all. Of course, Stormtrooper costuming has already been done to death but because of the cost of the suits it's still pretty uncommon - and someone who took the time every day, for a year, to don their armor and take some kind of photo would be a really cool project. And the headline's mention of "photojournalism", to me, implies even more than that - like some kind of attempt to incorporate these Stormtroopers into even

Godwin's Law?

[Rog7]

Excuse me for inadvertently invoking Godwin's Law on this so quickly, but when I read the title I first assumed this was some discovered historical footage of Nazi paramilitary assault troops.

I guess after Jar-Jar and the endless shovelling of Star Wars merchandise, I've kind of filtered George Lucas' franchise right out of my head. Or maybe I just wish I had.

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[PopeRatzo]

but when I read the title I first assumed this was some discovered historical footage

I think we've really devalued the term "stormtrooper".

Chewy...

[Anachragnome]

Chewy looks fucking guilty as hell. He also looks like he doesn't give a shit.

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[corbettw]

You can't pull people's arms out of their sockets for losing and NOT be a sociopath.

Shocking

[Dr. Spork]

Never have I seen such a wretched hive of filth and villainy.