Tuesday, December 22, 2009
How Success Killed Duke Nukem
Another article from Wired, Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem is a fascinating story about how Duke Nukem went from the top to the world of vapor over an excruciating 10+ year journey.
Definitely, a cautionary tale about the excesses of the pursuit of perfection.
Definitely, a cautionary tale about the excesses of the pursuit of perfection.
So THIS is where "Mega-Shark vs. Giant Octopus" came from!
From Wired Magazine, Now Playing: Cheap-and-Schlocky Blockbuster Ripoffs. It has been such a long time since I had actually walked into a BlockBuster to see the "close but different" movies like:
My kids were enthralled with the concept of "Mega-Shark vs Giant Octopus" and with STRONG leads like Lorenzo Lamas and Debbie Gibson, why wouldn't they be?
- Snakes on a Train (instead of Plane)
- The Land that Time Forgot (instead of Land of the Lost)
- 18 year old virgin (instead of 40 year old virgin)
- Aliens vs Hunter: AVH (instead of Aliens vs Predator: AVP)
- Transmorphers: Fall of Man (instead of Transformers: Whatever)
- Sherlock (instead of Sherlock Holmes)
My kids were enthralled with the concept of "Mega-Shark vs Giant Octopus" and with STRONG leads like Lorenzo Lamas and Debbie Gibson, why wouldn't they be?
Monday, December 21, 2009
Warhammer 40k - Live RPG - Pics - Lt.E.Watts' Photostream
Before you all think this fellow has built an actual army of Powered Armor suits, he hasn't. But he has a number of full human-scale props for their LARPing. Nice gun!
Lt.E.Watts' Photostream here
Lt.E.Watts' Photostream here
Dan O’Bannon, ‘Alien’ Screenwriter, Dies at 63 - Obituary
Dan O’Bannon, ‘Alien’ Screenwriter, Dies at 63 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
Though the look wasn't developed by him, the story was all his (and Ronald Shusett).
He also wrote DarkStar!
Definitely, his Alien - horror creation is long-lasting.
Though the look wasn't developed by him, the story was all his (and Ronald Shusett).
He also wrote DarkStar!
Definitely, his Alien - horror creation is long-lasting.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Totally Crafty - hoops and yoyo | make a super-fun CHRISTMAS paper toy!
hoops and yoyo's paper toy! is totally awesome!
Not sure how to print this out on good paper stock though.
Not sure how to print this out on good paper stock though.

Monday, November 30, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
The Best Writing Tips Ever (?)
Interesting list of thoughts slogans on writing from Allan Ginsburg.
The first one from William Blake is really wonderful.
The first one from William Blake is really wonderful.
DEFINITIONS, A PREFACE (2/19/94)ALLEN GINSBERG'S MIND WRITING SLOGANSAllen Ginsberg spent two decades teaching poetics at Naropa Institute, a half decade at Brooklyn College, and did occasional workshops at Zen Center & Shambhala/Dharmadhatu weekends. It's all been boiled down to brief mottoes from many sources found useful to guide myself and others in the experience of "writing the mind." --Peter Hale
'First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.' --William Blake
- 'First Thought, Best Thought' --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
- 'Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.' --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
- 'The Mind must be loose.' --John Adams
- 'One perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception.' --Charles Olson, 'Projective Verse'
- 'My writing is a picture of the mind moving.' --Philip Whalen
- Surprise Mind --Allen Ginsberg
- 'The old pond, a frog jumps in, Kerplunk!' --Basho
- 'Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance' --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
- 'Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then I contradict myself,
(I am large. I contain multitudes.)' --Walt Whitman - "...What quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature? ...Negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason." --John Keats
- 'Form is never more than an extension of content.' --Robert Creeley to Charles Olson
- 'Form follows function.' --Frank Lloyd Wright
- Ordinary Mind includes eternal perceptions. --A.G.
- 'Nothing is better for being Eternal
Nor so white as the white that dies of a day.' --Louis Zukofsky - Notice what you notice. --A.G.
- Catch yourself thinking. --A.G.
- Observe what's vivid. --A.G.
- Vividness is self-selecting. --A.G.
- 'Spots of Time' --William Wordsworth
- If we don't show anyone we're free to write anything. --A.G.
- 'My mind is open to itself.' --Gelek Rinpoche
- 'Each on his bed spoke to himself alone, making no sound.' --Charles Reznikoff
- 'No ideas but in things.' '...No ideas but in the Facts.' --William Carlos Williams
- 'Close to the nose.' --W.C.Williams
- 'Sight is where the eye hits.' --Louis Zukofsky
- 'Clamp the mind down on objects.' --W.C.Williams
- 'Direct treatment of the thing...' (or object.)' --E.Pound, 1912
- 'Presentation, not reference...' --Ezra Pound
- 'Give me a for instance.' --Vernacular
- 'Show not tell.' --Vernacular
- 'The natural object is always the adequate symbol.' --Ezra Pound
- 'Things are symbols of themselves.' --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
- 'Labor well the minute particulars, take care of the little ones
He who would do good for another must do it in minute particulars
General Good is the plea of the Scoundrel Hypocrite and Flatterer
For Art & Science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars" --William Blake - 'And being old she put a skin/On everything she said.' --W.B.Yeats
- 'Don't think of words when you stop but to see the picture better.' --Jack Kerouac
- 'Details are the Life of Prose.' --Jack Kerouac
- Intense fragments of spoken idiom, best. --A.G.
- 'Economy of Words' --Ezra Pound
- 'Tailoring' --Gregory Corso
- Maximum information, minimum number of syllables. --A.G.
- Syntax condensed, sound is solid. --A.G.
- Savor vowels, appreciate consonants. --A.G.
- 'Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.' --Ezra Pound
- '...awareness...of the tone leading of the vowels.' --Ezra Pound
- '...an attempt to approximate classical quantitative meters...' --Ezra Pound
- 'Lower limit speech, upper limit song' --Louis Zukofsky
- 'Phanopoeia, Melopoeia, Logopoeia.' --Ezra Pound
- "Sight, Sound & Intellect." --Louis Zukofsky
- 'Only emotion objectified endures.' -- Louis Zukofsky
- Spiritus = Breathing = Inspiration = Unobstructed Breath
- 'Alone with the Alone' --Plotinus
- Sunyata (Skt.) = Ku (Japanese) = Emptiness
- 'What's the sound of one hand clapping?' --Zen Koan
- 'What's the face you had before you were born?' --Zen Koan
- Vipassana (Skt.) = Clear Seeing
- 'Stop the world' --Carlos Casteneda
- 'The purpose of art is to stop time.' --Bob Dylan
- 'The unspeakable visions of the individual.' --J.K.
- 'I'm going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.' --Chuang Tzu, (Tr. Burton Watson)
- 'Candor' --Whitman
- 'One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.' --Shakespeare
- "Contact" --A Magazine, Nathaniel West & W.C. Williams, Eds.
- "God Appears & God is Light
To those poor Souls who dwell in Night
But does a Human Form Display
To those who Dwell in Realms of day.' --W. Blake - Subject is known by what she sees. --A.G.
- Others can measure their visions by what we see. --A.G.
- Candor ends paranoia. --A.G.
- 'Willingness to be Fool.' --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
- "day & night/you're all right" --Corso
- Tyger: "Humility is Beatness." --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche & A.G.
- Lion: "Surprise Mind" --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche & A.G.
- Garuda: 'Crazy Wisdom Outrageousness' --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
- Dragon: 'Unborn Inscrutability' --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
- 'To be men not destroyers' --Ezra Pound
- "Speech synchronizes mind & body." --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
- "The Emperor unites Heaven & Earth." --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
- 'Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.' --Shelley
- 'Make it new' --Ezra Pound
- 'When the mode of music changes, the walls of the city shake' --Plato
- 'Every third thought shall be my grave' --W. Shakespeare, 'The Tempest'
- 'That in black ink my love may still shine bright' --W. Shakespeare, Sonnets
- 'Only emotion endures' --Ezra Pound
- 'Well while I'm here I'll
do the work--
and what's the Work?
To ease the pain of living.
Everything else, drunken
dumbshow.' --A.G. - '...Kindness, sweetest
of the small notes
II. PATH (Method or Recognition)
III. FRUITION (Result or Appreciation)
in the world's ache,
most modest & gentle
of the elements
entered man before history
and became his daily
connection, let no man
tell you otherwise.' --Carl Rakosi
Ed Emberley’s Make a World: The Film
I have no idea what this movie Ed Emberely’s Make a World: The Film. could have that could compare to the awesome power he shared to draw anything.
Oh my god, I loved this book: Ed Emberley's Make-a-World I LOVED this book back in 1972.
I think I borrowed this book from the library about a zillion times.
But I'll definitely watch it!
Oh my god, I loved this book: Ed Emberley's Make-a-World I LOVED this book back in 1972.
I think I borrowed this book from the library about a zillion times.
"Make a World : the Film" Teaser from makeaworldfilm on Vimeo.
But I'll definitely watch it!
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
urban computing conference title generator
Awesome urban computing conference title generator.
Sound Hip without meaning ANYTHING!
Some samples:
Sound Hip without meaning ANYTHING!
Some samples:
- Approaching the Mesh Tweet
- Deploying the Ludic Interstices
- Thinking about the New Environment
- Approaching the Participatory Service
- Discussing the Spatial App
- Architecting the Public Infrastructure
Flurry of ActionScript stuff
Some interesting links to remember:
- From InsideRIA, Create cleaner ActionScript with conditional compiling is a pretty cool technote for AS3 development
- From Mike Chambers, a slide deck (PDF) on how to build iPhone apps with Flash CS5 (not released yet). Talks about optimization techniques for a weaker mobile device.
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