April 5, 2008 at 11:44 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, abstract, abuse, april, Art, background, black and white, booze, california, cocorosie, cool, cuss, donovan, dreams, drugs, flickr, friends, gatochy, harry nilsson, hotel, Jeff Tweedy, jesus and mary chain, jonathan richman, junk food, Literature, love, lyrics, mix tape, mixwit, moon, music, original, philosophy, photos, Potent Potables, radio, spring, stephen king, travel, velvet underground, videogame, wastelands, wiki, wikipedia, woody guthrie, writing ·
In this mix, for your listening pleasure, I thought I’d slow things down, and stretch things out a little. Kind of get you all in the mood for some late night philosophy and spooning. I’m too cheap to ply all of you with booze so I thought I’d make you a mix tape, kind of [...]
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March 31, 2008 at 1:51 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: adventure, alpha, alphabet, alternate reality, animals, Anime, axolotl, book, description, design, inspiration, internet, kento, letter, meme, mudkips, Nature, photos, pokemon, uglorable, videogame, zoo books ·
Ok, not really. My good friend Kento over at Uglorable has composed an AMAZING compendium of obscure animals - one for each letter of the alphabet - entitled: Obscure Animal Alphabet: Axolotl to Zebu.
For letter A is the Axolotl, which HAS to be the inspiration for that internet famous Pokémon, Mudkips.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B:
Sure [...]
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March 21, 2008 at 11:59 am Post Author: Giania Tags: Anime, blog, bobby conn, friends, guided by voices, happy bullets, hip-hop, j-rock, king crimson, media, mix tape, mixwit, mudkids, music, philosophy, psychedelic, rap, remix, shael riley, videogame, Web 2.0, ween ·
I just signed up for Mixwit! The interface for this “mix tape” making web app is a joy to work with. I can’t wait to get some of my other cohorts in on this, because I’d like to make this a regular blog feature. I have always enjoyed making mix tapes and cds for friends. [...]
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March 12, 2008 at 11:55 am Post Author: Giania Tags: Art, attitude, broadside, caution, discordia, disinformation, Ectomo, Fnord, friends, geek, gmail, google, health, internet, irc, jpg, meme, ormgas, parody, photoshop, Portal, poster, print, search, sign, technology, thanks, videogame, work ·
Last night the most remarkable series of things happened, resulting in a delightful print out just for you!
In #ormgas (the IRC channel for the OCR internet radio broadcast), Leissi pasted the following -
Notice: This Department requires no physical fitness program: everyone gets enough exercise jumping to conclusions, flying off the handle, running down the [...]
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January 3, 2008 at 4:25 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: alternative, Art, Articles of Interest, blog, co-workers, discordia, environment_design, Fnord, lifehack, networking, personal happiness, photos, videogame, work, zen ·
Woe and sadness unto you, cubicle drone. An entire blog dedicated to snapshots of tons of different companies. Mainly young, hip, internet-based companies on top of it.
Take a good look around you. Do a quick inventory of your surroundings.
Do they include any or all of the following:
A full wall, hand-painted mural
Some manner of arcade [...]
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December 10, 2007 at 4:25 am Post Author: Giania Tags: Art, chaos, clay, DIY, Fnord, fractals, geek, gifts, handcraft, mathematics, project, psychedelic, symbolic gestures, videogame ·
Back with more handcrafted ideas for giving people stuff because of some holiday or another is EvilMadScientist.com as they demonstrate how to create Iterative Algorithmic Sculptures from Fimo!
I love fractals despite having only the wispiest of understandings on the mathematics behind them. The tutorial offers you a way to handcraft a physical model of the [...]
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December 6, 2007 at 12:16 pm Post Author: Giania Tags: adventure, animation, aquaria, atlus, Bit Blot, design, ecco the dolphin, environment_design, Independent Games Festival, irc, media, odin sphere, ormgas, pc, sega, trailer, videogame, wiki, wikipedia, youtube ·
Efilon pointed this out earlier in the ormgas IRC. Thanks!
This looks absolutely awesome! In the underwater environment I see shades of Ecco the Dolphin (boy did that game used to creep me out), and character designs that seem to remind me of Odin Sphere.
It’s been put together by a group called Bit Blot. Improvements [...]
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