Game On, London
My girlfriend is amazing. Despite the fact that she can barely tolerate videogames, she still whisked me away to London last weekend, just to bring me to the Game On exhibition in the Science Museum, where I could play virtually every game ever made, on every system ever made. Just think about [...]
New Ghostbusters game?
Oh boy, please let this be real…
Although their character models are firmly in the middle of the uncanny valley:
(via Destructoid)
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Elite Beat Agents
If Full Spectrum Warrior can be used to train soldiers in the US Army, I don’t understand why crisis negotiators and bomb disposal teams aren’t using Elite Beat Agents to train their new recruits. No other game comes close to teaching you the importance of staying calm under pressure like EBA.
Elite [...]
iPhone and some questions
Apple did the expectedly-unexpected and announced the iPhone.
It’s a widescreen iPod mixed with a mobile phone mixed with a teeny-tiny Mac for Safari and Mail. Put simply, this is the most awesome piece of consumer electronics I have ever seen, so far. And I’ve seen a lot.
$599 for 8GB version.
$499 for 4GB [...]
Indiana Jones 4 to start production in 2007
From Lucasfilm.com
In a long-awaited announcement, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg revealed today that the fourth installment of Indiana Jones will begin production in June 2007. Harrison Ford returns in his role as the daring Dr. Jones for the new adventure. The film will be produced by Lucasfilm Ltd., directed by Steven Spielberg and released [...]
First Pics Surface of Wii-Mote Recharger - 1up.com
Number one on my list of annoyances with the Wii. I’ve gone through 2 sets of batteries playing Zelda alone. This can’t come soon enough.
101 Ways to Save Apple
In honour of today’s Macworld keynote (hoping for: iTV, Leopard release date), here’s a blast from the past: Wired’s 1997 article “101 Ways to Save Apple”.
Some of these are deliberately off the wall, but some of them have been adopted by ‘new’ Apple. For example:
98. Testimonials. Create commercials featuring real-life people in situations [...]
Radio controlled R2D2 … with built-in DVD player and projector?
So let me get this straight… it’s shaped like R2D2. It’s radio controlled. It’s got a DVD Player. It’s got a Projector. It’s got an iPod dock. It’s got a radio. It’s got USB inputs. It will play MP4 files. And its remote control is shaped [...]
What would Eddie Hobbs do?
This is ten thousand euros, in tens, twenties and fifties, completely shredded. Seamus gave it to me on Saturday at Rock and Roll Motherfucker in Voodoo.
And now I don’t know what to do. With enough effort, I could probably crack this open and sellotape all this back together. But is there more than [...]
Colours of the Incredibles
Pixar make some stunning movies. You could complain that their stories are pretty basic but from a visual standpoint, there’s no disputing their beauty.
One thing I love about these movies is the amount of effort that goes into choosing the colour palette for the movie. Yet, because of the speed of the [...]
Star Wars: Original Version vs Special Edition
I know it’s Star Wars, but… oh look, I just had to, okay?
With movies laid flat like this, it’s very easy to see how movies are structured. Much easier than actually watching them as movies. Now, this lead to a question: how are different versions of the same movie constructed? [...]
Koyaanisqatsi
When movies are torn apart and stitched back together like this, it lets you see the movie with a completely different perspective. Presenting them as one flat image, rather than a fast-moving sequence of images essentially allows one to, uh… ’see through time’, so to speak. The editing is torn apart and [...]
New Project: Cinema Verite
I’m working on a new project: Cinema Verite.
Using processing (a powerful programming language with a lot of media capabilities), I’m ripping apart some of my favourite movies and putting them back together again. By taking screenshots at every second of the movie and laying them out flat - one image per second, sixty images [...]
Charlie Kaufman I’m not
I have been itching to do a screenwriting course for ages now. I’ve got a bunch of movie ideas that I don’t really… I don’t know, I don’t necessarily expect to do anything with them, but I want to get them out of my head, just so my brain isn’t cluttered with [...]
