I dont play video games
but the concept of this looks interesting...
turn down speakers, music is annoying
Showing posts with label Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Games. Show all posts
Pagani vs Lamborghini: Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
It made me want to play the game...
and I am not even a gamer.
(I just press all the buttons until something happens)
“Game Over” sculpture by Kordian Lewandowski
I thought this was very clever and funny. Polish artist Kordian Lewandowski draws inspiration from Michelangelo’s famous sculpture, La Pieta, and reinterpreted the piece with Mario and the Princess. Entitled “Game Over”, the sculpture was made out of polystyrene foam, first chiseled down with a chainsaw and then refined with more standard tools.
Apps for Animators
Auditorium is the closest to my favorite game when I was a kid. Okay, anyone who knows me well knows I don't play video games and I am going to severely date myself...but, I loved the game Tempest at the arcade. This game is pretty like tempest AND you guide the flow of particles to make music. Lot's of fun and kind of hard!
I am not entirely sure I know how to play this game, but it keeps my friend's kids entertained for hours and is really cute.
Every animator out there breathing has heard of Simon's Cat, but have you see the nerw application for the iphone? You mak music with meows!!!What are your favorite apps?
The Headbanger
I think I found a video game I would like to play. Halford, Lemmy, Lita and Ozzy!
The work of concept artists Peter Chan, Scott Campbell, Nathan Stapley, Mark Hamer, Levi Ryken, and Razmig Mavlian is featured in "The “Headbanger."
The work of concept artists Peter Chan, Scott Campbell, Nathan Stapley, Mark Hamer, Levi Ryken, and Razmig Mavlian is featured in "The “Headbanger."
DD in Florida
Digital Domain's new Florida digital production studio is planning to carve out niches in videogames, animation and even military simulation graphics.
The Port St. Lucie studio will bear the Digital Domain name and, for now, movie f/x will be done primarily at the Los Angeles and Vancouver outposts.
In addition to $50 million in new investment from DD parent company Wyndcrest Holdings, the studio is getting a $10 million cash grant from local developers, administered by the city of Port St. Lucie; a 15-acre land grant from a local developer, valued at $10 million; and a $20 million grant from the state of Florida's Office of Tourism, Trade and Economic Development.
Move follows DD's recent announcement that it will expand to Vancouver (Daily Variety, Oct. 6).
read more here...
Wii - Hold on Tight!
My friends Dina Benadon and Brent Young at Super78 have just finished an ad campaign for the Wii for Nintendo and its really cute! Just click the movies above to play!
Holy Cow Is All I Can Say!
This posting is from Ben Mattes Blog (Producer at Ubisoft Montreal). I had to post it here for posterity because this has got to be the most ingenious ploy to recruit that I have heard in years. Enjoy! ~Angie
An Offer You Can't Refuse
Update: This post is in no way meant to imply that Red5 contacted me with the recruitment campaign described below. I read about this, thought it was amazing, and am blogging about it -- nothing more.
So imagine you are sitting at your desk one day and a FedEx parcel arrives for you. Depending on what you do, just this fact might already have you excited, but regardless of your position, if you aren't expecting any deliveries the scene from The Matrix when Neo recieves the cell phone from Morpheus has to spring to mind. "What life-altering adventure awaits me when I open this up?"
So you open the box and find inside a series of 'Russian Doll' type nested boxes, each more beautiful then the last. Written on each box a section of what appears to be a riddle.
Of course, as you open each subsequent box the attention to detail in this package is sure to start to attract attention. Some of your coworkers would certainly be drawn to the affair and hover around to know more. So finally you reach the fifth and last box, open it up, and find an iPod shuffle. But not just any iPod - this one is custom engraved with your name! There is also a small note informing you that a message is waiting for you on the iPod. Red Pill or Blue Pill? So, turning the iPod on reveals a single track -- a personalized message that starts out: "(insert your name here), this is Mark Kern, President of Red 5 Studios and former team lead for World of Warcraft.."
Mark Kern is talking to you personally telling you why he thinks you would be the perfect fit for his new company, Red 5, and asking you to get in touch to discuss a potential job offer. And he is doing so in a way that has made you feel like the most valuable developer on the planet, worthy of significant investment in terms of time and energy to do nothing more then get your attention. Finally he has done it in such a way that makes no attempt at hiding his interest to your colleagues and bosses at your current place of employment.
So, what would you do? Would you contact him back to discuss further, even if you were extremely happy at your current job?
If you answered yes, you aren't alone. A recruitment campaign like this is undeniably flattering and powerful and is likely to have a near 100% response rate (at least in as far as getting in touch, if not necessarily accepting the position). The people at Red 5 who developed this campaign took everything they knew about developers in the game industry (likely to get and appreciate matrix reference. Check. Likely to be impressed by WoW credentials. Check. Likely to be intrigued by the enigma of the whole package and try to unravel the meaning of the riddle thus getting more absorbed in the total package. Check) and wrapped it all into a package that would be impossible to ignore. I am floored by the ingenuity and creativity of it all.
Read here for an account of one recipient who, interestingly, seems not to have taken the bait.
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So imagine you are sitting at your desk one day and a FedEx parcel arrives for you. Depending on what you do, just this fact might already have you excited, but regardless of your position, if you aren't expecting any deliveries the scene from The Matrix when Neo recieves the cell phone from Morpheus has to spring to mind. "What life-altering adventure awaits me when I open this up?"
So you open the box and find inside a series of 'Russian Doll' type nested boxes, each more beautiful then the last. Written on each box a section of what appears to be a riddle.
Of course, as you open each subsequent box the attention to detail in this package is sure to start to attract attention. Some of your coworkers would certainly be drawn to the affair and hover around to know more. So finally you reach the fifth and last box, open it up, and find an iPod shuffle. But not just any iPod - this one is custom engraved with your name! There is also a small note informing you that a message is waiting for you on the iPod. Red Pill or Blue Pill? So, turning the iPod on reveals a single track -- a personalized message that starts out: "(insert your name here)
If you answered yes, you aren't alone. A recruitment campaign like this is undeniably flattering and powerful and is likely to have a near 100% response rate (at least in as far as getting in touch, if not necessarily accepting the position). The people at Red 5 who developed this campaign took everything they knew about developers in the game industry (likely to get and appreciate matrix reference. Check. Likely to be impressed by WoW credentials. Check. Likely to be intrigued by the enigma of the whole package and try to unravel the meaning of the riddle thus getting more absorbed in the total package. Check) and wrapped it all into a package that would be impossible to ignore. I am floored by the ingenuity and creativity of it all.
Read here for an account of one recipient who, interestingly, seems not to have taken the bait.
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