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November 11, 2011

Friday Five: 11/11/11

Happy 11/11/11/11/11/11 day! Here are some videos for you to enjoy!

The GAG Quartet – le Internet Medley

This band does covers of internet memes because that’s what the internet is for. Well done medley.

First trailer for GTAV

I have no idea what system this is coming out for but I am excited to see more. I loved GTA:SA but I completely skipped playing GTA IV (not only because I didn’t have the correct system, but also because I heard it wasn’t very fun). I like the look of V from this tiny glimpse, but the realism is starting to bother me in my morals a bit perhaps because I’ve become a parent since I last played GTA. The last time I played San Andreas I stole a bike and kept showing off my tricks to the people on the streets. If they didn’t like my tricks, I’d punch ‘em. Then I jumped some cars off some ramps, but the bullet-fueled rampages just weren’t as much fun any more. #getting older :(

Abobo’s Big Adventure

Speaking of games I’m looking forward to, my good pal Roger and his friends put together this loving homage to classic video games staring your favorite Double Dragon baddie and mine, ABOBO (though for the record I’m a bigger fan of Abobo’s green counterpart). This game looks like amazing fun and I will be writing a full review once I’m able to play. Be warned, I suck at video games, so by full review, I probably mean a full review of the first three levels before I get frustrated and give up.

Welcome to Kitty City by Cyriak

Jonah calls the sliding glass doors behind which two extremely fat kitties sit at the other end of our apartment complex “Kitty City” when he rides his tricycle past it. I can only hope that THIS is what it looks like in his imagination.

ASIMO gets a speed boost

Robots are getting faster and are one step closer to being able to do the hokey pokey (and serve drinks afterwards). The future is here!

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November 7, 2011

#musicmonday: Grouplove – Colours

Filed under: music monday — Tags: , , — Tod @ 12:35 pm

Caught this on the Impact (MSU’s college station) the other day and thought it was pretty great in a Modest Mouse vocalist knock off sort of way. Great build throughout the whole song though.

Lyrics
I am a man, man, man, man
Up, up in the air
And I run around, round, round, round this down town and act like I don’t care.
So when you see me flying by the planet’s moon,
You don’t need to explain if everything’s changed
Just know I’m just like you.

Huh.
Ha, (x4)

So I pull the switch, the switch, the switch inside my head.
And I see black, black, green,and brown, brown, brown and blue, yellow, violets, red.
And suddenly a light appears inside my brain
And I think of my ways, I think of my days and know that I have changed.

If the color’s (bad?)
No need to be sad.
It really ain’t that bad.

If the color’s (bad?)
No need to be sad.
You’ve still got your (hand?)

So Mistress, Mistress have you been up to the roof?
He shot himself, self
There’s blood on the wall
‘Cause he couldn’t face the truth.

Oh, knock that down, leave the ground and find some space
And tell your friends, friends,
You’ll be back again, gain
Before it’s too late.

If the color’s (bad?)
No need to be sad.
It really ain’t that bad.

Oooooooooh, If the color’s (bad?)
No need to be sad.
It really ain’t that bad

If the color’s (bad?)
No need to be sad.
You’ve still got your (hands?)

So I am a man, man, man, man
Up, up in the air
And I float around, ’round, ’round this downtown
And know I shouldn’t care.
So when you see us there out in the open road
You don’t need to explain
If everything’s changed
Just know that you don’t know.

We call it… (Life?)
Oh yeah, that’s what we call it.
We can’t call it at all.
We call it… (Life?)
Oh yeah, that’s what we call it.
When you can’t call it at all.
Yeah, We call it (Life?)
Oh yeah that’s what we call it.
(OOOOOOOOOOhhhhh)
We do it for… (sweet love?)

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Aftershock: Artists respond to disaster in Japan

Filed under: blog,Comics,cool art — Tags: , , , — Tod @ 11:41 am

My contributor copy of Aftershock, a relief effort spearheaded by the amazing Adam Pasion, came in the mail today. It looks great and I was so happy to be able to put something together for it. I only recognized a couple of the other contributors in the book: Ben Snakepit and Jeffrey Brown, which means I’m totally out of touch with the indie comics scene at the moment… a situation I plan to remedy soon.

I made a pledge last year to try to contribute to as many anthologies as I could to get myself back into drawing comics so if anyone out there knows of people putting together a group project please pass along the information.

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November 4, 2011

Friday Five: 11/4/11

Shithead!

The best video on the internet right now. I have no idea if this is new or old, but I can’t stop watching it. I’m Shithead and I MMMMMHHHHRRRRGGGGG!

Murmuration

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

GIANT FLOCK OF BIRDS!!! So creepy and beautiful and cool.

Stopover

Stopover from LeMob on Vimeo.

Nice painterly 3-D animation. Cute story and character design too. A short film directed and animated by Neil Stubbings. Sound design by Gregor Rosenberger.

Time-lapse Dam Removal

It’s neat to see the riverbed empty on the other side.

Conan O’Brien 1 year in 4 minutes

What a fantastic and brilliantly edited montage. Team Coco forever.

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