* (insert random company name here)
I'm so excited!!!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Waldo where art thou
German film director Werner Herzog
reads the children's classic Where's Waldo
(it's actually not Werner Herzog... duuh!)
reads the children's classic Where's Waldo
(it's actually not Werner Herzog... duuh!)
Saturday, April 17, 2010
hey scenester!
your scene sucks...
(click to enlarge)
another 28 examples of stereotypes including further "information" over here
(click to enlarge)
another 28 examples of stereotypes including further "information" over here
Saturday, April 3, 2010
MOON8
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
arranged for NES by Brad Smith.
The entire album redone with 8-bit instruments and effects.
(created using Famitracker, sound rendered with NSFplug)
MOON8 1 of 6 - Speak to Me / Breathe / On the Run
MOON8 2 of 6 - Time / Breathe Reprise
MOON8 3 of 6 - The Great Gig in the Sky
MOON8 4 of 6 - Money
MOON8 5 of 6 - Us and Them
MOON8 6 of 6 - Any Colour You Like / Brain Damage / Eclipse
arranged for NES by Brad Smith.
The entire album redone with 8-bit instruments and effects.
(created using Famitracker, sound rendered with NSFplug)
MOON8 1 of 6 - Speak to Me / Breathe / On the Run
MOON8 2 of 6 - Time / Breathe Reprise
MOON8 3 of 6 - The Great Gig in the Sky
MOON8 4 of 6 - Money
MOON8 5 of 6 - Us and Them
MOON8 6 of 6 - Any Colour You Like / Brain Damage / Eclipse
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Procr...
It happens to all of us
Procrastination
refers to the counterproductive deferment of actions or tasks to a later time.
Psychologists often cite such behavior as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision.
There are three criteria for a behavior to be classified as procrastination:
it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying.
Procrastination may result in stress, a sense of guilt and crisis, severe loss of personal productivity, as well as societal disapproval for not meeting responsibilities or commitments. These feelings combined may promote further procrastination.
While it is regarded as normal for people to procrastinate to some degree, it becomes a problem when it impedes normal functioning.
Chronic procrastination may be a sign of an underlying psychological disorder.
[Wikipedia] ►
next:
a nice little... whatever...
Graduation film from the Royal College of Art, 2007.
An investigative and exploratory study into the practice of putting things "off''.
Sometimes the only way to get something done is to do two dozen other things first.
Story, Animation, Direction: Johnny Kelly
Voice Over: Bryan Quinn
Procrastination
refers to the counterproductive deferment of actions or tasks to a later time.
Psychologists often cite such behavior as a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision.
There are three criteria for a behavior to be classified as procrastination:
it must be counterproductive, needless, and delaying.
Procrastination may result in stress, a sense of guilt and crisis, severe loss of personal productivity, as well as societal disapproval for not meeting responsibilities or commitments. These feelings combined may promote further procrastination.
While it is regarded as normal for people to procrastinate to some degree, it becomes a problem when it impedes normal functioning.
Chronic procrastination may be a sign of an underlying psychological disorder.
[Wikipedia] ►
next:
a nice little... whatever...
Graduation film from the Royal College of Art, 2007.
An investigative and exploratory study into the practice of putting things "off''.
Sometimes the only way to get something done is to do two dozen other things first.
Story, Animation, Direction: Johnny Kelly
Voice Over: Bryan Quinn
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Know Your Enemy
How to Master the Video Games - published in 1981
Teaching the reader how to get the most gameplay out of their quarter...
You should know your enemy, concentrate
and most important: practice at home
Know your enemy !
Concentrate !
Practice at home !!!
so...
Pac-Man, Missile Command, Space Invaders, Keystone Capers... here I come!
Friday, March 5, 2010
angular, bleak, paranoid
helloooo sub-pop again...
this time:
A Frames
If it takes a worried man to sing a worried song,
does it follow that it takes a paranoid man
to sing a paranoid song?
As you listen to the A Frames, you’re left to reckon so.
angular, angry guitars; thick, rich chords of chaos
and bleak, deadpan lyrics march over
robotic trashcan beats
(minimalistic?, hypnotic?, droning?)
A Frames - Experiment mp3
(right click and save as)
from their album: "Black Forest"
two vids for "Experiment" (not official - but nice)
vid for "Black Forest" (official - very nice)
bonus track:
Drooling Hillbilly Metal,
Sea Urchin Psychedelia,
Yukon Freak Thrash,
Beatnik Swamp Drone
A Frames + Climax Golden Twins = AFCGT
AFCGT - Two-Legged Dog mp3
(right click and save as)
this time:
A Frames
If it takes a worried man to sing a worried song,
does it follow that it takes a paranoid man
to sing a paranoid song?
As you listen to the A Frames, you’re left to reckon so.
angular, angry guitars; thick, rich chords of chaos
and bleak, deadpan lyrics march over
robotic trashcan beats
(minimalistic?, hypnotic?, droning?)
A Frames - Experiment mp3
(right click and save as)
from their album: "Black Forest"
two vids for "Experiment" (not official - but nice)
vid for "Black Forest" (official - very nice)
bonus track:
Drooling Hillbilly Metal,
Sea Urchin Psychedelia,
Yukon Freak Thrash,
Beatnik Swamp Drone
A Frames + Climax Golden Twins = AFCGT
AFCGT - Two-Legged Dog mp3
(right click and save as)
Saturday, February 27, 2010
robot flash ♥
play: Little Wheel
an awesome robot-themed point and click flash-game!
some puzzles, not too hard - great to kill a few minutes
There was once a world of living robots.
But one day a bad accident occured in the main power generator.
The world fell into a deep sleep.
Bring life back to the world!
-----
In this context SK has to highly recommend as well:
a game called Machinarium by Amanita Design
simply: great gameplay, beautiful graphics
+ an awesome soundtrack
similar to Little Wheel though it's not free...
try the demo! ►
an awesome robot-themed point and click flash-game!
some puzzles, not too hard - great to kill a few minutes
There was once a world of living robots.
But one day a bad accident occured in the main power generator.
The world fell into a deep sleep.
Bring life back to the world!
-----
In this context SK has to highly recommend as well:
a game called Machinarium by Amanita Design
simply: great gameplay, beautiful graphics
+ an awesome soundtrack
similar to Little Wheel though it's not free...
try the demo! ►
Friday, February 19, 2010
going cube
a post on music
was about time...
Brooklyn’s Goes Cube don’t really care what you call them.
Their music is a brutal blend of metal, punk and full-on rock.
the press goes:
"Double-bass drums collide with impossibly ballsy guitars and disarming chord structures - a provocative blend of Sonic Youth artiness and Slayeresque fury" - Pittsburgh City Paper
"These guys remind us of a simpler time in indie rock (circa 1994) when bands would scoff at the notion of using a synth. Get ready for some serious rock riffs like Slint" - Insound
"Brooklyn's latest bellow is a powerful volley for avant-punk...the energy is utterly captured. This is a band that has not forgotten the great mid-'90s Swedish group Refused, which took hard-core to a totally different compositional level" - Los Angeles Times
Call it metal, call it post-metal, call it quasi-metal-post-punk-pre-twenty-second-century-independent-art-sounds if you're into that kind of thing...
anyways: take a listen!
more:
Goes Cube - Goes Cube Song 57 mp3
(right click and save as)
from their album: "Another Day Has Passed"
Goes Cube - Loose Ends mp3
(right click and save as)
from their EP: "Hutchinson"
Goes Cube - The Only Daughter mp3
(right click and save as)
from their album: "Another Day Has Passed"
Goes Cube - Grinding The Knife Blade mp3
(right click and save as)
from their album: "Another Day Has Passed"
was about time...
Brooklyn’s Goes Cube don’t really care what you call them.
Their music is a brutal blend of metal, punk and full-on rock.
the press goes:
"Double-bass drums collide with impossibly ballsy guitars and disarming chord structures - a provocative blend of Sonic Youth artiness and Slayeresque fury" - Pittsburgh City Paper
"These guys remind us of a simpler time in indie rock (circa 1994) when bands would scoff at the notion of using a synth. Get ready for some serious rock riffs like Slint" - Insound
"Brooklyn's latest bellow is a powerful volley for avant-punk...the energy is utterly captured. This is a band that has not forgotten the great mid-'90s Swedish group Refused, which took hard-core to a totally different compositional level" - Los Angeles Times
Call it metal, call it post-metal, call it quasi-metal-post-punk-pre-twenty-second-century-independent-art-sounds if you're into that kind of thing...
anyways: take a listen!
more:
Goes Cube - Goes Cube Song 57 mp3
(right click and save as)
from their album: "Another Day Has Passed"
Goes Cube - Loose Ends mp3
(right click and save as)
from their EP: "Hutchinson"
Goes Cube - The Only Daughter mp3
(right click and save as)
from their album: "Another Day Has Passed"
Goes Cube - Grinding The Knife Blade mp3
(right click and save as)
from their album: "Another Day Has Passed"
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
essential facts
learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk
provides you with
weird and wonderful facts, trivia and useless information.
updated daily!
examples:
(arguable)
although information drives out knowledge...
We don't care! - Right?
oh well... when did we ever.
provides you with
weird and wonderful facts, trivia and useless information.
updated daily!
examples:
(arguable)
although information drives out knowledge...
We don't care! - Right?
oh well... when did we ever.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
amusing ourselves to death
illustrations from Stuart McMillen's cartoon blog
Recombinant Records
words from
"Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business"
a book published 1985(!) by Neil Postman about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
fullscreen and enlarge it here ►
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, published in 1932 ►
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, published in 1949 ►
- Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman, published 1985 ►
oh well...
...subtle irony?
who wins?
you decide!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
arcade RMX
retrosabotage.com
features a collection of
familiar classic arcade/home console-games
with some surreal tweaked twists.
Subversive playable remixes in Flash!
targets:
- Super Mario. Bros
- Missile Command
- Pong
- Xevious
- Breakout
- Pac-Man
- Tetris
- Space Invaders
SK recommends the Pac-Man remixes
previous post on Pac-Man ►
"On The Edge Of Forever - Deciphering The Splitscreen"
previous post on Tetris ►
"Can You Win At Tetris?"
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
typost 2
he does
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Friday, January 15, 2010
The Third & The Seventh
A CG animated masterpiece by Alex Roman
It tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.
(CG = Computer Generated/Computer Graphics)
There are a only few non-CG elements in this shortfilm: photographer (shot on greenscreen), pigeons, timelapsed growing flowers, flying airplane and sky backgrounds.
The HD-version and the original MP4 torrent is available over here ►
Fullscreen it!
It tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.
(CG = Computer Generated/Computer Graphics)
There are a only few non-CG elements in this shortfilm: photographer (shot on greenscreen), pigeons, timelapsed growing flowers, flying airplane and sky backgrounds.
The HD-version and the original MP4 torrent is available over here ►
Fullscreen it!
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Thursday, December 31, 2009
2009: Band Names
The A.V. Club
finds an endless bounty of funny, stupid, and confusing names every year for their annual band-names list.
After all, someone out there right this very moment is forming a band and wondering what to call it.
Each year the A.V. Club assembles a list of the notable names encountered along the way.
the list offers links to hompages or myspace-pages for most of the bands + bands' statements or background information
2009's categories are:
- GENIUS
- STILL USING EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!
- WINNER, MOST OVERWROUGHT ACRONYM
- FUNK BANDS WILL NEVER GET IT
- PROPER NAMES
- MOVIE/TV REFERENCES
- SHOTGUNS
- BITCH WHORE SLUT ETC.
- THE ALWAYS POPULAR VAG
- COCK
- NIPPLES THAT ARE STIFF
- SEX
- PANTS, FOR SOME REASON
- THE FUTURE LIES
- THE SOMETHING AND THE SOMETHINGS
- HIPPIE-SOUNDING
- TOO TWEE TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD
- SO HEAVY, DUDE
- REALLY?
- [FOREHEAD SLAP]
- ???
- STOP WITH THE Zs ALREADY
- FOREVER DAMNED TO SAY “IT’S A PALINDROME!”
- WILL NEVER BE SPELLED CORRECTLY BY PROMOTERS
- LONG
- WORST HIP-HOP NAMES
- PUNS, RHYMES, & MISC.
- FUCK
- CANADA!
- ANIMALS
- DISABILITIES
- DRUGS
- MISC.
SK's top3 band-names picked from the list:
1. Dananananaykroyd
2. Gardening, Not Architecture
3. Computer Jesus Refrigerator
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