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OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – Rube Goldberg Machine music video

Yves — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:22:50 +0000

From the new album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky” available at http://www.okgo.net/store
Directed by James Frost, OK Go and Syyn Labs. Produced by Shirley Moyers. The official video for the recorded version of “This Too Shall Pass” off of the album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky”. The video was filmed in a two story warehouse, in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. The “machine” was designed and built by the band, along with members of Syyn Labs (http://syynlabs.com/) over the course of several months. OK Go thanks State Farm for making this video possible.

Mimeo: the video game that changes resolution as you make progress

Yves — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:58:05 +0000

Via @vbroido, Mimeo and the Kleptopus King is a videogame for iPhone and iPod Touch developped by Shaun Inman, which pays homage to older systems and evolves from 2 bits to 4 bits, then from 4 to 8 bits, to 16 bits etc., as Mimeo gains his resolution back from the evil King.

Perhaps the very first level could look even more minimalistic, with fewer, bigger pixels, à la Space Invaders? Anyway, it’s cute, it’s clever, and it’s pretty.

I want to address my love of pixels. The aesthetics of Mimeo (and Horror Vacui before it) are not born solely from nostalgia. Good pixel art strikes the perfect balance between appreciable craftsmanship and the gestalt. A single pixel out of place, one too few or too many, ruins the illusion. There’s an unmuddied, economy of expression, the thankless result of the limitations of cartridge-based consoles.

A little demo video from the author below:

Design Outside the Box – “We live in a bubble of fake bullshit”

Yves — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:21:53 +0000

DICE 2010: “Design Outside the Box” Presentation
Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular “Facebook Games” era.

iPhone-controlled personal drone

Yves — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:23:44 +0000

I don’t believe it’s actually working yet (the video looks like it’s not really the iPhone controlling it), nor that it can be bought yet, but I have to say that video of Parrot’s AR.Drone gives me butterflies in the stomach.

Via Laurent

Augmented Reality Pool Table

Yves — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:01:37 +0000

(Warning: awful music)

Magnetix mobile

Yves — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:45:08 +0000

Videogames in Tokyo, Japan

Yves — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:22:23 +0000

Videogames in Tokyo, Japan

The Mr. T Virtual Playset

Yves — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:35:18 +0000

Ever wondered what Mr. T would look like without his beard and mohawk? Well, wonder no more: ironicsans.com now presents The Mr. T Virtual Playset.

Planarity

Yves — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:48:03 +0000

“Arrange the vertices such that no edges overlap.” Some people would argue that the best games have the shortest instructions (or sometimes none at all). I just posted a link to Planarity over at Bo-ko. If you have a brain and you like to use it, this is a really entertaining way to kill time. I wish there was a way to save the session and come back where you left the game the next time, a bit like “Lemmings” used to give a password at the end of every level, so that you can come back to it another day and not have to re-do the first levels. (Although that would be impossible to keep track of the score the way he does it now. mmm…)

P.S.: Got to level 10 before I gave up.

World of Warcraft Coke commercial

Yves — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 03:27:18 +0000

If you like World of Warcraft and cute asian girls, and cheesy commercials, you will love this World of Warcraft Coke commercial from China.

[ cheap domain names at Z-Names.com ]

Update:

via WorldOfWarcraft.com
World of Warcraft recently launched with amazing fanfare and success in China. Partnering with Blizzard to usher in this blockbuster launch was iCoke, Coca-Cola’s name-brand presence in China. In the weeks leading up to and after the launch, iCoke led the way in promoting World of Warcraft, celebrating the game in real-life replicas of Stormwind Castle and Thunder Bluff, creating a joint World of Warcraft and Coca-Cola televised commercial featuring Chinese pop sensation SHE, and unveiling an iCoke-branded World of Warcraft site. The site is in Chinese, but even if you can’t read it, it’s well worth checking out.