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My contribution to the internet
For some reason, I was looking at images and youtube clips from the very excellent and canceled too soon cartoon show Mission Hill. People have already provided many good images about Ska, what is Kafkaesque, and the Republican Vampire, but … Continue reading
Fuckbert
I’ve been playing with Unity3D a bit lately. This is something I made, called Fuckbert. It’s really only a proof of concept at this point, if that concept is “QBert with more actual swearing.” There’s only two kinds of enemies … Continue reading
Patent for a Piano Player Roll Container
Check out the diagrams for this fabulous patent from 1921, showing how to store multiple player piano rolls in a giant chain. Whatever problem it was trying solve, I don’t know, but it’s amazing to picture it in action, turning … Continue reading
Demo Reel
I’ve put together an animation demo reel:
Star Wars Trench Run
To play around with some techniques, and to analyze the editing of the scene, I’ve made a chart that breaks down the Star Wars trench run sequence, which I’ve made available as a PDF. I figure I’d put together a … Continue reading
Colours
This was something I made just as a test on a selection of colours I had, but I kind of like how it looks:
Old patents for cameras
For future reference, here’s a link to one of the early patents for a motion-picture camera, also known at the time as a Kinetograph. Here’s a Kinetoscope, used for viewing movies. A film-reeling mechanism. A still camera. (I like how … Continue reading
We just got guns!
I watched Matewan recently, and kind of love Kevin Tighe’s performance as a villainous Union-buster. Here is is saying “we just got guns” Here he is intimidating a 15-year-old with a war story. Here he is when he first arrives … Continue reading
Upgrades
I was playing a random game on Flash Game License, it was a fun concept, very nice graphics and music. The controls felt very, very, sluggish and unresponsive. Of course, the game has a shop, where you spend your experience … Continue reading
Criteriological Types
From an analysis of gaming magazines from 1981 to 1995, I like this list of “criteriological types.” These have been noted and the result is a list of criteriological types including ideas like game affordances (what a game allows you … Continue reading