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December 2011
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November 2011
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WatchWork: “The Immeasurable Life” Title Package for North Point Ministries Title Design by Colin Harman Sound Design/Mixing by J.J. Brummett
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“Dont be a passive viewer of the world. You don’t want your children to...”
– Jake Nickell, founder of Threadless, as presented in this video, which you need to watch if you have even a tiny bit of creativity in your bones:
(Thanks to Colin Harman for sharing!)
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Link: MirrorCube →
Why, yes, I would like to live in a floating, invisible cube.
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The Greatest Games I've Played: #21
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008, Nintendo Wii)
I could talk at length about Smash Bros. incredible roster of players, or its extensive set of classic gaming locales in which to play, or its best-of-its kind collection of epically-orchestrated game themes, or the deceptive depth in its initially simple control system.
But when I think of the Smash Bros. series, what I really think about are the...
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October 2011
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Link: Steve Jobs' Eulogy →
I’ve tried and failed several times to write some sort of a send-off to Steve Jobs. My feelings about Steve are complicated, mixed, and often changing. He was hailed as a visionary– a once-in-a-generation sort of figure. He was dismissed as a tempestuous, stubborn, and overly-demanding leader. He was loved, hated, mocked, worshipped.
However, Steve was a private man. We know a lot about...
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The Greatest Games I've Played: #22
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest
The original Donkey Kong Country was the first game that I actually anticipated. I was 9 at the time. Yes, I had played many games before, but I didn’t really know of their existence until they were in my hand after opening a Christmas or birthday present. But by 9, I had found sources of advance information– magazines at bookstores, the...
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs, Wired Magazine, 1996
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“Thankfully, dreams can change. If we’d all stuck with our first dream, the world...”
– Stephen Colbert - 2011 Northwestern University Commencement
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The Greatest Games I've Played: #23
Myst
It would be difficult to explain the appeal of Myst to a kid today.
You stare at an image. You point. You click. The game loads the next image. You’ve taken five steps forward. You look around some more. You point. You click. And so on.
The Point-and-Click adventure has more or less retired to the great keyboard in the sky, but it left its share of classics: Monkey Island, Sam...
September 2011
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Hey, Braves– meet me at Camera 3.
(Image: Mark Serota/Getty Images)
Baseball’s a tough game. We can all agree on that right now. Playing consistently good baseball over the course of 162 games is a task that no team without a $65 million dollar starting rotation* (ahem) is up for. It’s a long grind, and there are going to be ups and downs.
But this is really, really down. A month ago, we all rested easy. I...
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“They heard me singing and they told me to stop
“Quit these pretentious...”
– “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” Arcade Fire
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WatchWork: KidStuf “Klubhouse” Intro
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The Greatest Games I've Played: #24
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (2007, Nintendo Wii)
“Yeah, I’ve always wanted to catch that.”
We always have a growing stack of classics or cult hits that we intend to see/read/play simply because we feel we must for our own cultural education. You’ve either seen The Godfather, or you intend to. You’ve either read the Harry Potter books, or you’re planning...
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The Greatest Games I’ve Played: #25
For no reason in particular, I’m going to run down the best games I’ve played over the course of my 23+ years of gaming. I understand that this adds a substantial number of punches to my nerd card. I’m okay with that. Games, just like films, books, and other creative arts, helped foster my imagination growing up, and even helped steer me down the path toward digital arts. And...
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(Insert lousy duck metaphor.)
“Laid back.”
“Chill.”
“Easygoing.”
Almost without exception, this is how my friends and peers have characterized my personality. I don’t publicly freak out. I’m tremendously anti-confrontational. I’m a people-pleaser. I fight every awkward situation or conversation with attempts at wit or humor, trying desperately to steer the mood...
August 2011
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WatchGungor: “White Man”
This brightened my day in oh-so-many ways.
(Thanks rbnhnt!)
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WatchTrapcode Form 2 Released
Excited. Very, very, very excited. Well done, Mr. Norrby.