Ben Kidd

Epic Games Virtual Production Technical Artist. also Co-Founder of @Curiscope, creator of the #Virtualitee in previous life.

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

@DGoodayle Just complicated BS. As my grandfather used to say “its all a game”

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

Top tip: if you’d like anything to get done quickly in the UK, just make an ITV drama about it! Easy 😎

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

@willgoldstone The design from this era of desktop was absolutely class

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@Bertaroo Just past the outside surface of your eye….unless your indoors….probably

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

@CursedVideos Warning: this post contains depictions of flat packed furniture

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

@WeHaveWaysPod @almurray @James1940 With spanners descending! 🔧

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

@DGoodayle We have a portal perfect for this kind of amazing community content! https://t.co/95JpPudbxJ Danny you diamond :)

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

@Terranauts93 Well, the mechanic is having a great start to the week!

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

@archaeologyart @Lindybeige recon there’s a few moments of “this next bit has to go right or we’ve ruined it” in the making of this.

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

Always look around you 😂

[Robert Popper @robertpopper]

LOOK AROUND YOU is finally on iplayer. Thanks iplayer. Thiplayer https://t.co/VaFTsFJvmz

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

WW1. The elongated tragedy that saw our transition from the old world to the new.

[Dan Carlin @HardcoreHistory]

I've tweeted this photo before (or one just like it). For those who don't realize how Napoleonic looking some of the uniforms at the start of WW1 were. Four years after this photo things will already look like early WW2. Tanks, planes, gas, camo, helmets, etc.

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

@CalcioBeard @Metallica

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

@HardcoreHistory listening to Punic 2. Regarding theory of generational trauma, perhaps this may have better prepared ancient peoples for the horror of ancient battle? If so this may be it’s evolutionary function. Just my thoughts. What do you think?

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

Ha ha brilliantly revived with this edit

[Scarred for Life @ScarredForLife2]

Your regular reminder that British public information films were like brutal horror films condensed into 30 second chunks, and shown during primetime (and children's) TV shows.

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

A perfect piece of toilet humour doesn’t exis…

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

During a certain period, Sears offered complete houses in large do-it-yourself (DIY) kits through their catalogs. These kits were transported by train and encompassed around 30,000 components, including wiring, plumbing, and heating, which collectively weighed over 25 tons.

Customers had the option to choose from more than 370 designs, and each kit included a 75-page instruction manual. Sears asserted that an individual with "average" skills could construct the entire house within a span of 90 days.

Between 1908 and 1940, Sears managed to sell over 70,000 DIY homes at prices ranging from $600 to $6,000 (approximately equivalent to $8,400 to $84,000 in today's currency). One notable model, known as the Martha Washington (as depicted in the accompanying images), was sold for $3,028 (equivalent to $45,538 today) in 1921.

In 2016, the same Martha Washington model was purchased for $1.06 million in Washington D.C. Remarkably, almost 70% of these Sears DIY houses are still standing today.

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

Can Prigozhin out live a lettuce? Someone must have set one up in front of a webcam by now surely

[Ben Kidd @Benthat3DKidd]

@Bertaroo @K_Samantha1 Congratulations 🥳