One Tenori-On Please
Jonathan at Middledigit blogs about Tenori-On, a fun music gadget. You can check out the official site here, or check this clip:
Nice one Yamaha - now I know what to ask my girlfriend to bring back for me from Japan!
Drawing Classes Starting Tonight..
I decided last month it was about time to try and pick up an ‘old talent’ and do a drawing & painting study at an academy. The first lesson/session is tonight at 19:00.
Really looking forward - little nervous too.
I’m Lovin’ Flight of the Conchords
I’ve been meaning to post some Flight of the Conchords clips for a while now, just didn’t know which ones. I stumbled upon this Pet Shop Boys spoof today which was new to me:
Yelle Know How to Groove!
(Thanks MarcP)
More Monkeys on More Drums
Nope, this here is not a chocolate commercial film, this here is a trip down memory lane with Aphex Twin & Chris Cunningham. A bit freaky. But nice.
(Thanks Hakan)
Things That Make You Go ‘HUH?!’ - Nice New Campaign from Mother
When I first saw these images I thought they were by artist Ron Mueck, but they’re not, these massive tattooed figures have recently invaded London as part of a new ambient ad campaign by Mother. The sculptures, which have currently taken up residence by Tower Bridge and also at Victoria Station, form part of a campaign for new Discovery Real Time reality show London Ink which is a show based around a tattoo parlour run by Louis Molloy, who has already had a taste of fame with his ink work for David Beckham and Kate Moss.
Alongside the sculptures will be print, TV and cinema commercials films, as well as stencilling on London’s streets.
I’m lovin’ this - shows how nice advertising can be! (via Creative Review)
Dramatic Chipmunk - The Sequel
If you liked the Dramatic Chipmunk clip, you will probably like this too..
My PSP Had a Sex Change (or : How I Learned to Love My PSP)
The games on the Sony PSP platform never really did it for me - the PSP always felt a bit like a miniature Playstation 1 (which it is, so that makes sense) and that vibe doesn’t really cut it for me no more. So I never really played with it a whole lot..
..until I found out about Amiga emulation on the PSP. The project is called Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator and its great, I figured I’d share my experience with it here. Someone told me about this a while ago, I just never really found time to play with it yet (the first version of PSP UAE dates back to 2005).
The installation procedure isn’t completely harmless apparently, so at first I wasn’t really sure if I should do this at all since the process can potentially ‘brick’ (screw up) your PSP completely, although I read somewhere that there is tricks to ‘unbrick’ it again. It also does a fair bit of overclocking (sets the CPU speed to 333mhz). I believe there isn’t really a lot of knowledge on if this overclocking business is actually harmful to a PSP.
It took me a few hours to install the emulator - My PSP is from 2005 and ran on version 2.81. Which meant I had to upgrade it to v3.50 in order to be able to downgrade it to v1.50 again. I could find all the tools and tricks trough google - ‘its all there you just have to find it’ (pasting the links in this post is ‘breaking the law’ I think?)
Anyhow…
A few hours later I was looking at Turrican II - running smooth and looking mighty fine on the mint PSP screen:
Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, Indy; The SCUMM adventures all run great as well - only the sound is quite broken.
Some observations:
- Sound emulation not really working right on any of the games I’ve tried so far.
- Not all games run smooth with UAE, a lot of them are slow and/or skimpy on the frames.
- A 4GB Memorycard will store any Amiga game ever made (including the one by mr. Waterfall, if only he told me what its name is) - how cool is that?
- Trying to make pictures or clips of the shiny black & glossy PSP is challenging.
If you don’t really fancy this old-school retro gaming stuff, there is more emulation going on for the PSP, like DeSmuME - emulating the Nintendo DS. Nice.
A Social Network for Avatars
Koinup is the first social network to share your virtual life by publishing your machinima, screenshots and virtual stories.
Koinup allows users to upload, share and review contents they create within virtual worlds, metaverse, mmorpg and games as Second Life, IMVU, World of Warcraft, The Sims 2 and many others.
Welcome to the Future, I guess. I think a social network for bots should be next on the agenda?
Nice Website for Halo 3
I really enjoyed this launch site for Halo 3 - its quite an experience: You ‘fly’ trough a gigantic beautifully crafted hand-built miniature set of a paused Halo3 scene. Diorama stylee. Made me want to get my hands on the real thing as well.
Update: Just found out trough Ventilate that this is done by Method Studios who collaborated with Director Rupert Sanders and master modeler Stan Winston via T.A.G/McCann for a Halo 3 TV commercial. There is a Making Of as well.