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Every sci fi geek’s dream game!
Saturday, August 1st, 2009
I was surfing around the other day and ran into one of the most incredible science fiction games currently being developed called Infinity. Talking with friends and co workers throughout the years regarding space based games, the holy grail of the space explorer type game was the ability to seamlessly flow through the deep space environment giving the player the ability to land on strange and exotic planets to allow further conquest/ exploration. Well sci fi geeks, your wait is over. Now you too can drop in from a planetary orbit and step into a foreboding landscape only to ultimately get your face sucked and used as an alien incubator.
Infinity uses procedurally based algorithms to generate galaxies which contain millions of randomly generated planets. The game looks absolutely amazing and if it is successful, looks like a watershed point in PC gaming. This is especially exciting for me since I used to stay up into the wee hours playing Elite on my Amiga 500 and thought it would never get any better.
It also looks like they are letting the community build the game assets themselves. So if you’ve got some talent and you feel like you can contribute, give these guys a holler and start submitting!
Can anybody say “Firefly Mod?!
I am posting some MUST watch videos below that showcase some of the procedural technologies. Absolutely amazing!
Conspiracy Cards!!!
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
I was again wandering around the web one late evening after work and I found this interesting site called Conspiracy cards. First off its a very well done site. It starts off with an image of a man wearing a gas mask holding a blue pill and red pill and clicking on the red pill allows you to enter the site (Matrix anyone?) while clicking on the blue pill returns you to the “sheeple”.
Once you enter, some surprisingly cool music plays in the background of the site. After reading the various parts of the site, I clicked on the conspiracy cards themselves and it takes you to a list of over 130 categories of current conspiracy theories covering such topics as the New world Order to the Stonehenge.
Its a fun read and while your entertaining yourself, you’re also listening to some pretty cool tunes in the background. Its a clever and well done presentation. Check it out HERE.
Pixelmash theater!
Friday, February 27th, 2009
For those of you who have played old school PC games from the 64k days, I have a neat site for you to check out. Its called Pixelmash theater. Some ingenious fellows named Foldsfive took the time to recreate classic movies in their pixelated glory. Think of it as an 8 bit cliffnotes versions of classics like Raiders of the Lost ark and Star wars! Ah, these little cinematic gems hearken back to the days of the Commodore 64 and the Atari 2600! Oh the memories…
If you’ve got some time to burn and your waiting for code to compile or even if your in a boring meeting or something, take a minute to check it out. Good stuff!
Tags: Commodore 64, FOldsfive, Pixelmash Theater
Posted in Art, Cinema, Computers, Entertainment, Media |
Posted in Art, Cinema, Computers, Entertainment, Media |
Great desktop wallpaper site
Monday, December 1st, 2008If you’re looking for a spam/pay free site for high resolution wallpapers for your desk/laptop check out interfacelift.com.
Its mostly landscapes and some good HDR shots. Theres a few graphic desings in there but its a good change of pace for the desktop. There is also access to free themes and Icons for your desktop as well. I was impressed with the image quality and the ability to select multiple resolutions for download. Some really nice images collected here.
Mysterious Stranger
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008I found this curious claymation cartoon that was created for children which ended up supposedly being banned in the U.S. Based on the Mark Twain’s Mysterious Stranger short story, the cartoon is reportedly a sketch in the “The Adventures of Mark Twain” movie released in 1985.
The same animation house that made the famous california raisins commericals in the 80s did the stop motion animation for this film. Take a look, its an oddly creepy but very well executed piece.
Tags: Banned cartoon, California Raisins, Mark Twain, Mysterious Stranger, Stop motion animation, The Adventures of Mark Twain
Posted in Animation, Art, Bizarre, Cinema, Literature |
Posted in Animation, Art, Bizarre, Cinema, Literature |
Vintage book cover art pieces
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Wow, I am so pissed that I didn’t think of this first! This is one of the most creative things I have seen in recent memory. Someone got the wise idea of taking old pulp novels and cutting out the figures to make “pop up” dioramas that look brilliant and capture the old vintage spirit. Some of the action shots are beautifully composed.
Check it out here…
Lego concentration camp set
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
From the WTF files. This is an old story but its the first time I’ve seen it. A series of 7 LEGO kits were designed by Polish artist Zbigniew Libera in the late 1990s.
From the Harper’s article:
Each box contains the blocks necessary to build the figures and structures on its lid. When Libera requested the LEGOs from the company’s Warsaw representative, he planned to create sets for a prison and a hospital, but the project evolved into a concentration camp. According to a press release issued by the LEGO Group, “If the had described his ultimate project to us in advance, he naturally would not have received a single LEGO element from us!”.
I don’t believe these sets ever hit the retail shelves (although it is rumored that these sets were fetching over $7,000 in private auctions). Some of the box shots are really creepy.
Olympic Legoland!
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
I never thought that I would see a more complex lego city than Lego Venice but a Hong Kong Lego users group has painstakingly reproduced the 2008 Beijing Olympic summer games complex.
The group used over 300,000 Lego bricks and 4,500 Lego people to create the gigantic display. The stunningly crafted miniature panorama measures 10ft by 26ft and features famous venues including the “Birds’ Nest” Stadium and the “Water Cube” swimming centre. The one thing I could never locate in the lego masterpiece though were the police detaining and arresting protesters…
Tags: 2008, Beijing, Hong Kong, Legos, Olympics, Summer games, users group
Posted in Art, Sports, World |
Posted in Art, Sports, World |
Introducing ‘The human camera’!
Friday, August 15th, 2008
new york skyline
This has got to be the most incredible thing I have seen in recent memory. A man out of the UK named Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic artist that can draw gigantic a city scape from memory after a 45 minute helicopter ride. He is so amazingly precise that he draws each building with the correct number of windows.
Autism is still not fully understood but there is obviously some portion of the brain thats being accessed that allows for this inconceivable functionality.
The artwork itself is not the most beautiful or technically sound execution on its own merits but the fact that he can walk down a street and store it in his head and reproduce it on canvas WITH NO REFERENCE MATERIAL is absolutely astounding!
Here are some of his gallery paintings which you can order on his website.
