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ted
| August 22nd, 2008
Nacho Rodriguez, whose Mr. Coo series was featured before , has a Mr. Coo game out — well, it’s sort of a game, but it’s more like an interactive comic. Check it out. I love the way the frames move. It’s in Spanish, but very sparingly.
Link to: Mr. Coo game
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jon
| August 21st, 2008
Okay, so this certainly isn’t the first time someone has made a comic out of pixel art. But a couple things set Super Oors World apart. First, is the pleasing lack of text—making this essentially a “silent” comic. Second, it’s completely Creative Commons licensed, including the sprite characters themselves, so that you can make your own comic. Oh yeah, and it’s also funny, which helps!
Link to: Super Oors World
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jon
| August 21st, 2008
This beautiful, black and white animation by Craig Welch comes to us courtesy of the YouTube Screening Room. Features an obsessive scientist who seeks the answer to a seemingly impossible question.
Link to: How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels
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dave
| August 18th, 2008
If steampunk is a futurized industrial age, then this is pyramind punk. Or hieroglunk. Like Stargate, but not terrible.
link to: Bendito Machine
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rick
| August 17th, 2008
Directed by So-Me and Machine Molle, if you like logo design this video is for you. Incorporating the style of tons of 70’s logos and giving them a current 3D feel, this video’s pretty great.
Link to: Machine Molle
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jon
| August 15th, 2008
Shift is a black and white puzzle game with a unique game mechanic. Sometimes black is the floor and sometimes white is the floor. It all depends on your perspective. Press “shift” and everything flips.
Link to: Shift 1 | Shift 2 | Shift 3
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jon
| August 13th, 2008
Binärpilot is the electonic music project of Alexander Støver. Alexander hails from Norway, and makes some downright fun music. It’s fragmented, video gamey, and just a little bit silly. Even better, it’s all free, and you can download his entire discography as a torrent via the Pirate Bay.
“Goof” off of the album Defrag:
Link to: Personal Site | Myspace
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dave
| August 11th, 2008
I think the backgrounds of this film are looped real-world video footage. I’m not really sure, but either way, black-and-white-and-weird is hard to pass up. Three cheers for Emiel Penders.
Link to: Angst
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ted
| August 10th, 2008
A comedic guide to life by pseudonymous Winston Rowntree with anthropomorphic animals. I wish someone had given this to me as a kid. I could have handled it.
Link to: Virus Comix
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dave
| August 09th, 2008
You might think I’m being smarmy with that title up there. I’m not. Beirut is incredible, and their lead singer, Zach, seems to be writing and recording alone now. The horns of Beirut remain, but not the drums, and he’s thrown in a few ambient keyboards and echoey electronic sounds. Give it a listen.
Zach Condon - Venice
Link to: Zach Condon on myspace
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ted
| August 08th, 2008
Cory Doctorow’s new short story, "The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away," is available on Tor as a free read. This one’s about a monastical organization for geeks, something of a cross between academia and the Googleplex. It’s Tor.com’s first Creative Commons-licensed story, so be sure to translate it into Swahili or at least tell them how much you appreciate them not locking down your media. The cool image associated with it is by Red Nose Studio. And if you’re too lazy to read, the audio link below is a podcast of Cory reading it to you. Full service!
Link to: "The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away" (Via BB)
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dave
| August 07th, 2008
TotemX makes flipbooks. Lots of flipbooks. He then records himself flipping through them and adds foley. Yes.
Link to: TotemX’s FunnyOrDie Channel
