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22:40:35 02/23/08
California Extreme Arcade Expo 2007
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I threw together a little video of the California Extreme Arcade Expo , which I attended this last Saturday, August 11, 2007 in San Jose. It was retrogaming heaven! It was worth the price of admission just to be able to play some of my old favorites like I, Robot and Xenon . Discovered some new favorites in Orbitor 1 and Uo Poko .
Orbitor 1 is a crazy pinball machine with a playfield made of molded clear plastic that causes the ball to "orbit" two bumpers in the center. Uo Poko is a simple, well-executed clone of Bubble Bobble/Bust-a-Move .
Attached to the Expo was a mini film-festival of gaming documentaries. I saw two of them and recommend both. I was blown away by the quality of Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball and overcome with homesickness watching the Portland-centric High Score , a movie about a guy going for the high-score in Missile Command.
Also posted on YouTube and on Vimeo .
Music by Pong .
For more coverage of this event, I recommend the ever-delightful 1Up Show . Also check out Reboot's show about the Expo .
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22:40:35 02/23/08
California Extreme Arcade Expo 2007
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I threw together a little video of the California Extreme Arcade Expo , which I attended this last Saturday, August 11, 2007 in San Jose. It was retrogaming heaven! It was worth the price of admission just to be able to play some of my old favorites like I, Robot and Xenon . Discovered some new favorites in Orbitor 1 and Uo Poko . Orbitor 1 is a crazy pinball machine with a playfield made of molded clear plastic that causes the ball to "orbit" two bumpers in the center. Uo Poko is a simple, well-executed clone of Bubble Bobble/Bust-a-Move . Attached to the Expo was a mini film-festival of gaming documentaries. I saw two of them and recommend both. I was blown away by the quality of Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball and overcome with homesickness watching the Portland-centric High Score , a movie about a guy going for the high-score in Missile Command. Also posted on YouTube and on Vimeo . Music by Pong . For more coverage of this event, I recommend the ever-delightful 1Up Show . Also check out Reboot's show about the Expo .
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00:37:07 12/25/07
A Grave (Reality), a chronposite
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A sequence of composites created with the cooperation of Ravage and the Muse-O-Matic midi music algorithm. Seed phrase for the music was "ravage my reality".
I've been on a streak with these chronposites. They're the closest I get to sketching these days. Now that I'm on winter break, maybe I'll find myself spending some afternoons with my long-neglected sketchbooks.
Stastny novy rok, everyone.
Video...
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Make MIDI music of your own words and phrases at Muse-O-Matic .
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19:10:52 06/11/06
San Francisco 666
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On 6/6/6, I took a train to Redwood City, California from Portland, Oregon. I'll be living in RC for two months while working as a UI programmer at a videogame company. I'm pretty excited about the job, it's my first time working on a major game and at a game company. Kind of a dream come true.
Here's a simple montage of video clips from the trip.
Technorati tags: train , geese , scenery , Redwood City , water
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20:06:32 02/27/06
Robin Ator
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Here's an interview with Robin Ator , a Portland comic artist, cartoonist, animator, character designer, illustrator and all around swell guy.
Robin also appears briefly in the Big Time TV Free Geek Fair video .
Related links:
Glow in the Dark Pictures
Robin's SITO homepage
Robin's Flickr stream
Technorati tags: Robin Ator , sketchbook , art , interview , drawing , cartoon , comics , animator , Portland , strawberrymobile
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05:45:13 02/09/06
Roadtrip in Intervals
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Cor and I went to the coast to visit her brother. On the way, I shot a short clip of video every five minutes. Did the same for the trip back. The result is an abridged version of our roadtrip .
Tags via Del.icio.us: roadtrip , Oregon , DairyQueen , driving , Moolatte , Camp18 , breakfast , video , Portland , Wheeler
Tags via Technorati: roadtrip , Oregon , DairyQueen , driving , Moolatte , Camp18 , breakfast , video , Portland , Wheeler
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06:52:52 02/07/06
Interactive Composite
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WARNING - This entry contains NUDITY. If this offends you, immediately rinse your eyes, strut like a chicken and engage in primal scream therapy.
I'm posting this mainly as a test-of-concept. I want to see if this Interactive Composite video (made in Flash) will show up in aggregator software like FireAnt . In theory, it should.
Occasionally, I build interactive doodles with a program called Macromedia Flash (MX 2004, etc). I'd like to post some of these as part of Big Time TV. Programming in Flash Actionscript is primarily how I've made my living for the last few years, though not so much lately. For the past few months it has been Perl CGI with SQL database interfacing. Know of anyone who needs a Flash-kateer? Let me know .
This particular interactive video is responsive to the mouse. Roll-over parts to "feed" them movement energy. Click parts to bring them closer to the top layer. Drag parts to rearrange them. I'll include links to static composites I've made with Sitka, the model for this interactive.
* Dusk Litany of Optimisms - Sitka composite
* The Wake of a Dream - Sitka composite
* ActionScript via Wikipedia
* Seedling is another of my Flash doodles (press SPACEBAR to re-grow the tree)
Tags: Flash , interactive , art , nude , composite
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06:48:37 02/07/06
Twiddle Beta
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Ariel and I have been toying with the idea of making a podcast about videogames and, last week, we recorded an ad-hoc trial run to test the technicalities of recording Skype conversations. From that audio, I distilled a few minutes to mix into a video... here is the end product .
In the video, you'll see "reviews" of We Love Katamari (PS2), MotherLoad (Web) and Psychonauts (Xbox).
We're going to try an actual structured show soon. Maybe you'll hear a podcast from us someday. The "Twiddle" beta version is about 20 minutes long and is mostly us just joking around. You can download that audio here .
Oh! And go watch all of Ariel's OOGLOO + ANJU cartoons.
Tags: videogames , Psychonauts , Ariel , Motherlode , giggling
02/07/06