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iwdrm: “Go and love some more.” Harold and Maude (1971)

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:45 -0700

iwdrm:

“Go and love some more.”

Harold and Maude (1971)

allie-w: slimu: Japanese Food Party...

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:14 -0700

allie-w:

slimu:

Japanese Food Party :D

ええ？？とてもかわいいですね！

たべたいよ！

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Mon, 20 May 2013 06:59:45 -0700

patakk: http://amadeus1996.tumblr.com/

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:44:10 -0700

patakk:

http://amadeus1996.tumblr.com/

coelasquid: As long as we ‘re still on the subject of Brave and...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:41:02 -0700

coelasquid:

As long as we ‘re still on the subject of Brave and before people get too sick of me talking about it, it’s kind of funny that the merchandising for this character almost unilaterally revolves around the outfit that she hated and destroyed.

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Tue, 14 May 2013 11:00:58 -0700

robhuebel: This is the best (I hope he doesn’t get...

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:40:24 -0700

robhuebel:

This is the best (I hope he doesn’t get fired).

Here’s an astronaut in space making a music video of David Bowie’s Space Oddity and yeah.

jimray: There’s something so boringly obvious about Kara Swisher’s...

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:12:41 -0700

jimray: There’s something so boringly obvious about Kara Swisher’s...:

jimray:

There’s something so boringly obvious about Kara Swisher’s behind-the-scenes look at how Facebook came to own Instagram. To fans of Silicon Valley drama (amongst whom Swisher seems to count herself), it’s a breathless tale of luck, determination, and picking the decisive moment to pivot. From a…

spot on

new-aesthetic: “Dewey-Hagborg […] extracts DNA from each piece...

Sun, 05 May 2013 12:34:13 -0700

new-aesthetic:

“Dewey-Hagborg […] extracts DNA from each piece of evidence she collects and enters this data into a computer program, which churns out a model of the face of the person who left the hair, fingernail, cigarette or gum behind. […] From those facial models, she then produces actual sculptures using a 3D printer.”

Creepy or Cool? Portraits Derived From the DNA in Hair and Gum Found in Public Places | Collage of Arts and Sciences

rachelelm: nyugamecenter: This year’s No Quarter Exhibition...

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:11:01 -0700

rachelelm:

nyugamecenter:

This year’s No Quarter Exhibition marks the first event in the newly founded NYU Game Center X Attract Mode initiative. Five Attract Mode artists have created five awesome pieces depicting some past No Quarter games which will be featured at this year’s exhibition. Check out the talented artists who created the above pieces:

Mark Essen’s Nidhogg, by Hamlet Machine

Noah Sasso’s BaraBariBall by Kyle Fewell

Ramiro Corbetta’s Hokra, by Jovo Ve

Robin Arnott’s Deep Sea, by Steve Courtney

Matt Parker’s Recurse by Rachel Morris

The pieces will be on display and sale throughout the exhibition. For more information on Attract Mode: http://attractmo.de/

just a reminder, y’all! posted mine last week, but this is going down 2nite so get there if you can to pick one of these! you should also go because it’s a No Quarter and the nyugamecenter rules~~

rollingrabbit: I like Batgirl. me tooooo

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:55:08 -0700

rollingrabbit:

I like Batgirl.

me tooooo

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:52:39 -0700

Congratulations, Shinji!

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:34:38 -0700

Congratulations, Shinji!

Road Redemption

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:57:00 -0700

Road Redemption:

Road Rash-style gameplay, with next-gen graphics, physics, and online play!

This is everything wrong with ~~Kickstarter~~ game development, condensed into a single Kickstarter campaign.

For starters, the “footage” they show is almost certainly a target video - rendered (not in game engine) footage intended to show what the game could feel like, before there’s actually a game to play or show.

The details of the gameplay are super shallow — the kind you’d see in a high level pitch document. The vast majority of the Kickstarter page is filled with an inane amount of backer rewards, rather than actual game details (aside from some renders of weapons, bikes, and a list of “neat idea” gameplay modes).

What’s missing from the page, is any attempt to break down the team’s budget, or how they intend to spend the $160,000 they’re asking for.

They say their team has a “combined 35 years of video game industry experience”, but with the nine team members listed on the page, that means that each averages less than 4 years in the industry.

(And if you’re better at math than me, you’ll also realize that 160k will make a paltry salary for 9 people — even before whatever they’d theoretically have to pay out for their backer rewards. Is this going to be their full-time jobs?)

The “Risks and Challenges” section is three short paragraphs. I’ll even re-post the whole thing here:

There are budget, time, and feature implementation risks associated with every videogame project.

All members of the team have experience working on videogame projects and know the methods to best anticipate and handle these challenges.

The Road Redemption team has so far been able to avoid these pitfalls via focused goals, a realistic development schedule, and a high priority on project management.

So, basically: “making games is hard, but we know what we’re doing.”

Now, maybe I’m being a bit harsh, but game development is hard enough without teams actively trying to screw themselves over.

This is a group of individuals — probably friends — who have NEVER made a game together (or if they had, fail to mention it anywhere on the page), promising “Road Rash-style gameplay, with next-gen graphics, physics, & online play!”

…for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Wii U.

And their release date for the game (according to the backer rewards)? August 2014. That’s 16 months from now. For a multi-platform game release. Also, they’re working on Oculus Rift support! Because of course they are.

Now, none of that is the worst part. The worst part is that the campaign still has 15 days left, and they’ve already raised over $80,000.

Maybe this is the reason the game industry is always a little fucked. People don’t seem to understand that making games is really hard. Good games don’t happen by accident. And neither do bad games. There’s a story behind every game cancellation. There are factors that lead to every critical failure. Every bug-ridden release. Every tale of redemption.

It takes focus and discipline to make a game. The bigger you are, the more focus and discipline you’ll need.

I’m not saying people making games need to be serious all the time. But the second you’re taking other people’s money to make a game, or the second other people’s jobs depend on that game, it’s time to take things maybe a LITTLE more seriously.

The shit of it is that the industry often feels like it’s run exactly like that Kickstarter. Lots of bravado. Big promises. Unrealistic expectations. More bodies get thrown on the fire, as if that has ever solved ANY problem. Deadlines get missed. Everybody loses sleep. Eventually, something ships, or it doesn’t. Either way, all those big promises come back around. Even successful games aren’t successful anymore.

Games get canceled. People get laid off. Studios shut down. But at least there’s Kickstarter, right?

Same shit, different platform.

atoms2ashes: Evangelion Angels presented via Digital Collage

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:58:05 -0700

atoms2ashes:

Evangelion Angels presented via Digital Collage

oldeenglish: Hey everyone! Thanks to our incredible...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:58:19 -0700

oldeenglish:

Hey everyone! Thanks to our incredible distribution partner Splitsider, our feature film, The Exquisite Corpse Project, is now available to download or stream online for just five dollars!

This is a big day for us, and we couldn’t be happier to finally share the film we’re so proud of with all of you. If you’d still like to see the movie live, in theatres, come out to one of our many upcoming screenings!

Below are some of the nice things people have been saying about the film:

samreich:

popculturebrain:

Watch This: Splitsider Presents ‘The Exquisite Corpse Project’ | Splitsider

Comedy website Splitsider just launched a new digital distribution label ‘Splitsider Presents’ and their first release is the hilarious feature film ‘The Exquisite Corpse Project.’ Available for $5 over at their website.

Director Ben Popik gathered together his former comrades from the legendary sketch group Olde English and tasked them with writing a movie. The catch: each of the five writers wrote 15 pages and only saw the previous five pages of the script. He then shot the movie they wrote, as well as documentary footage of the writing process and all the drama that it entailed, and put them all together into a unique comedy.

I had an opportunity to see the move last night and it is really something special. Besides being extremely funny and charming, it speaks volumes about the creative process, collaboration and friendship. The way the documentary aspect mirrors the narrative they wrote is fascinating. The film becomes much more than a silly project, but rather evolves into a statement about human nature and relationships. You definitely haven’t seen anything like it.

Go get it. For real. You won’t regret spending the $5.

Anyone who has ever been in a comedy group, or wants to know what it means to be in a comedy group, should watch this movie. It’s the single most moving and accurate depiction of the joy and horror of creative compromise that has ever been made. It’s also a rare dose of sincerity in an oftentimes too snarky comedy world.

Congratulations to comedy brand Splitsider on the cool business move.

Click here to get the movie now!

Monitoring Breathing via Signal Strength in Wireless Networks

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:21:27 -0700

Monitoring Breathing via Signal Strength in Wireless Networks:

This paper shows experimentally that standard wireless networks which measure received signal strength (RSS) can be used to reliably detect human breathing and estimate the breathing rate, an application we call “BreathTaking”. We show that although an individual link cannot reliably detect breathing, the collective spectral content of a network of devices reliably indicates the presence and rate of breathing. We present a maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of breathing rate, amplitude, and phase, which uses the RSS data from many links simultaneously.

Um.

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:10:26 -0700

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scooterpiebanana: lolsomeone-actually: im-your-favorite-actor-a...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:06:00 -0700

scooterpiebanana:

lolsomeone-actually:

im-your-favorite-actor-and-i:

josienepien:

allofthefandomsaremyotp:

ofcourseitstrue:

Ha! It didn’t click until Rapunzel as Four.

I think Belle should be Ten. Ten loves books, a lot.

yeah ariel should be Eleven since she never had legs before and Eleven cant walk without tripping

I don’t get it

The amount of investment and involvement you have to have in the respective fandoms to really get this fanart is astounding.

amazing in so many ways.

slavin: @nanexllc “Google Flash Crash:...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:04:21 -0700

slavin:

@nanexllc

“Google Flash Crash: http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4171.html $GOOG”

Initially thought maybe fat finger trade, later Nanex suggests “normal #HFT games”

(via Nanex ~ 22-Apr-2013 ~ Google Flash Crash)