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Today is that day that I always forget about. I really cannot remember any of the other ones like it, but I now have a friend whose birthday is today. "Happy Birthday Wendy!"

Also here is a poster that Nikola Tosic made for a show that takes place today.


Here you can buy this and more of his posters which are very funny I think.
edit: also her is a link to the show, and here.

I have invited some of the links on the left to attend, I don't know if they will show up though :-PP Maybe if there are cool things to take pictures of I will blog it tomorrow.. until then I will continue to restore my music collection to its previous glory..

A nice point from Jane McGonigal

"[...] it’s easier to optimize experience in a world entirely of our own making. The fact is the real world is too f’ed up, it’s too broken, we don’t want to deal with it. So right now, pretty much every one of our games works better than reality, because we are the best designers of human experience [...]" Jane McGonigal, at GDC Rant 2008

I don't so much agree with her notion that it is up to the game designers to fix the real world, but I imagine that research that they had developed would help if someone were to make such an undertaking.

Fanboi

I found this artist thismorning via Artcal that I think is a good video game artist working outside of the Internet.
Robert Barta:


"Falling in Love with You", 2007.


"Breathing Under the Water", 2008.

New Site

www.natehitchcock.com

Planned Failure

"Challenging my Laptop to a Chess Match", 2007, by Nathaniel Katz
(found at vvork)

Logoscape Studies #2 and #3

#2


#3

Icicle Inn

I have always wanted to vacation at Icicle Inn since I was little (a location in Final Fantasy 7).
Here is what it looks like in real life.


IRL, in FF7

Lost Vienna Picture

Myself, Rowynn Michelle, Angel Otero, Auden, and Chadwick Gibson.

Someone just posted on Facebook :-PP

Note to Self

Note to self: Read about Casual Games.

Being casual and gaming are both good things.

The Semiotic Square of Everything

Ball point pen on Hello Kittty paper, 2007.

New Drawings

They aren't actually new but I just found the jpgs. All graphite on standard printer paper: 8.5*11 inches. Click for larger images.


From Google Maps Street View


Landscapes


Waiting

Moar Phone Drawings

Here are some more phone drawings..
Also working a new project :-DD

Henry and Kurt

In the book, The Anthropology of Experience, Frederick Turner compares Thoreau to Godel.

Carnevale Costumes from Anamaria

I think that more holidays should be like this. The world would be a better place.
Here are some photos that Anamaria took at Carnevale de Venezia little bit ago.

Boxx Blog

Dain Oh has started a blog about boxes.

Cell Phone Drawings

Since my computer was stolen and I haven't found a new one yet, I have been making drawings on my old Treo over top of pictures I have taken. Here are some.







I am also on an Yves Klein kick right now.