A new day on the web, is a new day of collecting many many links. How do you keep any kind of order in such a rapidly growing array? I need things sorted, ordered and in tight neatly confined spaces!
Friday April 16, 2010 -- #125
I'm not the biggest fan of the iPad yet, but I can feel it reeling me in. I've loved the idea of a tablet PC back when Microsoft was pushing the idea early 2000'ish, but despite not knowing what happened to those plans, it certainly didn't bear many fruits. I loved the idea of sitting on the couch, toilet or anywhere while surfing the web and certainly still do. Yes, surf on the toilet, you read that correctly ;) Anyway, the idea of the iPad is superb, but from what I hear the execution isn't quite up to par yet, not what I was expecting. I'll wait and see where Apple will take the idea over a couple of releases, or perhaps where Windows platforms are taken, but the idea is very solid.
Before the iPad was officially announced I came across this article showcasing a concept video of a device with a digital magazine on it and I was, and am, impressed. It looks very slick and great to use! It's what I want really. I can see magazines and newspapers going this way, providing the masses with downloadable content on their way to work or perhaps selling content on cheap memory cards and surviving that way. I'd be willing to pay for proper edited material. Unlike handhelds/mobile phones (small screens) and laptops (will you really hold a notebook in your hand while standing in the train to read?) this might actually replace the printed media. It would for me anyway. The only problem is I don't know if the screens are really fit for lengthy reads, I will read small bits on my PC, but lengthy articles scare me. I will either print it out or refuse to read it, often resulting in the last option. I hope technology will wash that little point away, and future generations might not know printed media as we do now. While I enjoy books, I'm convinced it's not the future, but the past.
So says me :)
Everytime I see the mag+ video the idea is growing on me more and more. Maybe Apple hired them to create some sneaky advertising for their iPad release.
Monday April 12, 2010 -- #124
» "Memories of you I'll always keep, God saw you were tired and put you to sleep."
» The Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello
The coming weeks are the Mikey's Super Movie Festival Weeks Spectaculáir! This is not a known or commercial festival down here or something you can attend, hell it's not even a festival! It's just my way of saying I have some movies lying around which I want to watch, and I shall be watching them these coming few weeks. Fancy me. These movie weeks will include the likes of Diary Of The Dead (Romero), Sherlock Holmes, The Fourth Kind, Ninja Assassin, Harry Brown and many more no doubt. And if they turn out even half as good as the movies last week, I'm in for a ride. I kicked off this returning fashion of mine with The Road, Moon and Fantastic Mr.Fox and I think fondly of them all.
They are all absolutely superb movies in their own right, but also quite different. The Road was without a doubt the gloomiest I have seen ever since Grave Of The Fireflies, while Moon is another set of gloomy, with more colour and fantastic vista's of the Moon and a distant Earth, and Fantastic Mr.Fox was simply everything a Wes Anderson movie always is and knew no gloom and glum. The animation: superb. The story: excellent. The jokes: witty, funny and funwittely fantastic. The cast: just about the same people as always with Wes Anderson, but great nonetheless, Clooney is great as (a) fox. Can't say I found the soundtrack as inspiring as I, and others, normally do with Anderson movies, but it ruined nothing.
If any of the upcoming movies turn out even half as good as this I'll be very pleased.
And I think some may. When I was younger I used to pee with my pants on the floor. But more on topic I also used to think of only a handful of movies being great, with some good and all the rest not worth the film they were etc etc. Nowadays however I feel movies are being made with such passion, ideas and, occassionally, creativity like it's the easiest thing in the world to do. As a result I just don't get to see them all, and need these periods to sort of keep up with the tempo. It's insane.
edit I think the influx of quality movies, or what I like to think of as quality, is perhaps also because of the great marketing/analyzing machine in Hollywood rolling non-stop and churning out the movies "they" think "we" like. So it's not just passion and/or creativity that keeps the bizz running (far from it I realize), but so what. If I like something that's purely made for me to like than why not.
Saturday April 03, 2010 -- #123
Disco has been making its revival for a while now and this, to me, is why thats a very good thing (along with Calvin Harris, Tiga and others) :) Enjoy her funny hairdo and especially the nifty song. Bulllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetprooof lalaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
That reminds me, I need some music icons.
Saturday March 27, 2010 -- #122
I love animation, I love Pixar, I love Up, I love music, I love Sigur Rós...
so is there any possible reason I should not love this?
Sunday March 21, 2010 -- #121
» Decent article on Left4Dead2, love the artwork/vista shots. If only the game looked like that!
» Better late on board, than miss the entire train, but will it ride on time? I love trains.
I've got so much shit to say and share! And yet I never find myself in a position to give you all my wisdom, and when I am in a position, my wisdom has faded beyond remembrance.
A GT5 clip will have to do for now, don't stop visiting this place! DON'T!
Sunday March 14, 2010 -- #120
Uncharted2 is the pinnacle of big games these days. It's not the brilliant narrative or originality that does it, but the polish to the nth degree of it all, it's the entire package. And boy do I love it. I've always had a childish love for Nintendo, the big N, but am I glad to have gone for something else this time. The PS3 is showing me things I've been missing all this time. Nathan Drake is the mutts nutts, the top dog and all other canine comparisons I simply don't know.
Sunday February 28, 2010 -- #119
Braid has finally been released for the Dutch PSN store. October last year the US received the game, mid-december the rest of the world had its turn and now the remaining few territories (Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg) have received this little title. And why did these last countries get it so late? Because there was no localised store text.
Read it again, let it sink and realise the idiocy of it.
The game itself didn't need any extra work or changes, it's fine as is, no the reason the game took well over an extra month to be released in 3 little stores was because there was no translated text yet, to put into the storesite along with the game. How much text is that you might ask? About 1 lousy paragraph. Probably even less than this post you're reading right now. Sony seems anal retentive about something as little as this. I'd almost say get your shit together next time, but I know for a fact there are already several games out there which have been kept from stores for exactly the same reason. We're talking months delay here, for 1 single fucking paragraph.
Sunday February 07, 2010 -- #118
» Fabulous typography ad for a Business Intelligence program I've been working with. Turn the sound off though.
Our dog, Didi, was put down last week. Even though it almost sounds as vicious as the Old Yeller scene, it wasn't quite the same drama. For 1 thing our dog didn't have rabies. I think. Also, it wasn't shot down with a double barrel shotgun.
It's hard to explain to people what it feels like to lose a pet that's been with you for 16 (sometimes dreadfully long) years, an age some of my cousins have yet to reach! And comparing it to having a child usually doesn't bode very well for the conversation, but I suppose it can be compared to that on some levels. The way we've treated pets has turned them into little children, our little childrem, so it's not all that far off. It was a shitty thing to have the dog put to sleep, but at the same time something that had to be done. She couldn't communicate with us to the level where she could simply draw us out a map leading to the porch she'd wanted to die under. Instead we figured her continuous scratching, furniture licking, collapsing through hind legs and poo'ing inside was pretty much the same as a drawn out map. Some turds formed a nice X anyway. I suppose I'd wished she'd have died a natural death without us having to look like a bunch of pillocks "murdering" the little beast, but alas, we are a little spoiled in options and she did have the luxury of not having to undergo the same demise as most of us human beings. So I like to believe it was the best for her. It was.
Rest well little doggy, if there really are green pastures beyond I hope you will find some friends to run with you all day long and to sniff eachother. Hopefully there are no cats in your little heaven to annoy you, or people with balls. You never did like balls very much.
Monday February 01, 2010 -- #117
» It's good not to take all those resources for granted now and then, sweet challenge. Wish I had an idea.
» Apocalypse Meow is the title for this animation, and that really does say it all. Stellar!
This is so fucking super awesome. Just about everything I think of as pop culture rears its head in this animation short. Superb.
Tuesday January 19, 2010 -- #116