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Fucking Moon Temple

geoffrey — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:04:42 +0000

God damn it

Recent bookmarks and purchases

geoffrey — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 06:33:02 +0000

Den Brooks @ Dribble: Captivating “corners” 3d series.

Project Euler: Have fun learning to code by cracking math problems, brought to my attention by this Atlantic article.
Seth’s Palookaville 20: Issue 20 of Seth’s long-running comic includes part four of his Clyde Fans story and a photoessay on the seriously great imaginary city of Dominion he built out of cardboard. Also good from Drawn & Quarterly this year is Chester Brown’s Paying For It, although I found his backmatter polemic worryingly naive.

Additive resin 3D printing: ChemShapes is trying to do an open-source printer although the blog is kind of all over the place [ed. don't throw stones, Litwack] and a comprehensive plan seems far away – more promising is Junior Veloso’s printer although it seems he will not be open-sourcing every element of it. Meanwhile dudes at the Vienna University of Technology have theirs done and say it costs €1200 although there are no plans or further details. I would buy one, Vienna University of Technology: hurry up.
Speaking of buying things:

Yeah, I bought a Neo Geo MVS 4-slot. Plus Windjammers. I don’t do things the normal way; I do things the enormous way

Strange days

geoffrey — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:35:05 +0000

I recently joined the beta of Home on my PlayStation 3. It’s the Metaverse from Snow Crash, only boring. It does look really good.

So I boot it up for the first time, design my avatar (below), and am plunked into my beautiful waterfront studio apartment. I leave for the town square, populated by other Home players – you can tell the real women from the men role-playing by the modesty of their outfits – and notice that there is 2D video playing on screens intermixed with the 3D environment – house ads for Sony projects. I go into the shopping mall, browse around – would I like to spend 49¢ on a new pair of virtual jeans? no – and go up to the second floor, where there’s another large video screen playing Sony ads, this time for movies. I stand and watch. Purchase the Fred Claus Unrated Edition in HD from the PlayStation Store.

AND THEN
then a trailer for House Bunny. And there’s my sister, walking to the side of Anna Faris.

Kind of a postmodern moment. I hit the R1 button and make my avatar applaud.

Quiet day

geoffrey — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:41:32 +0000

Words cannot express how much I’m looking forward to the Mother 3 translation

maybe a screenshot will do it

Never not blogging

geoffrey — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:08:32 +0000

Games: Snatcher Pilot DS: The Snatcher demo disc ported to Nintendo DS – quite an achievement. Snatcher’s an old cyberpunk game by Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear Solid. You’re going to need a NintendoDS flash card to play. Via Insert Credit.
Jules Guerin: The Chateaux of Touraine: Four pages with images from this incredible 1906 book of illustrations: one, two, three, four. Via the Comics Journal’s Journalista blog.
Have you ever entered into an agreement without a contract? Song of the day: Method Man and Mary J. Blige, You’re All I Need To Get By (You Don’t Need A Ring To Be My Wife)
Journal-Inc: Grocery bag alternatives. Boy, I like the Porter one.
Late update: NEW DARK KNIGHT TRAILER!!

Rise of the robots

geoffrey — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:44:30 +0000

Modular robot reassembles when it’s kicked apart: everywhere on the internet today. Skynet rises. Seriously though, how long until these modules are itsy-bitsy? See also the NeoCube.
New BMW M1: sexxxxxxy. The body looks like two layers, as if the black underneath is cracking through, trying to escape. And check the I Ching rims! In other car news, the 2009 Prius will be bigger inside, longer, 100hp engine, 50-55 miles per gallon. My car, with a 275hp 4.2l V8, gets 15-17mpg.
MSNBC: Smiley-Face Killer. Sounds like a direct-to-video thriller, but real.
Movies: I saw Teeth yesterday and liked it enough to recommend. Just campy enough. Jess Weixler was brave to take the role and gave a great performance, I thought. Directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein, son of Roy.
If you’ve ever wanted to play a Wu-Tang Clan rougelike, your time has come.
Song of the day: HNIC 2 FINALLY dropped, so here’s Prodigy Raining Guns and Shanks from the mixtape. Looking forward to that new Mobb Deep record in 2011, keep your head up P!

What’s up Monday

geoffrey — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:49:16 +0000

Kitsune Noir: House Uc by Miyahara Architect Office: Great use of concrete. I wonder what’s on the roof.
Wired: Deutsche Bank Loves Shai Agassi’s Plan to Bring Us EVs (Electric Vehicles): “Bean counters at Deutsche Bank absolutely love Shai Agassi’s plan to sell electric vehicles like cell phones and think it could be a “paradigm shift” that causes “massive disruption” to the auto industry… a typical contract would cost $550 a month and provide 18,000 miles a year.” Basically, energy is 7¢ a mile versus 24¢ a mile for gas in Europe. This should work, right? People who would buy a loaded Smart would just lease this instead?
Ian Albert – Video Game Maps: Amazing maps of territories I know well. The San Andreas map effort is a real marvel. The clickable version to the left is scaled down to 11% of a version already scaled way down from a gigapixel. (via Selectbutton forums.)
Music music music music: Pilooski edit of Alan Parson’s Project I, Robot for D*I*R*T*Y Edits Vol.1.

Hack your PSP Slim

geoffrey — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:36:57 +0000

So I just bought a PSP and waded through a bunch of bad information in order to successfully get it hacked – I decided to write up a little how-to for the nerds in the audience here. Easier than working with an AppleTV but not as satisfying T_T

Media List

geoffrey — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:41:17 +0000

Here’s what’s on my queue – what am I missing? I’ve heard a lot of the talked-about music and seen a lot of movies that’ve come out this year but haven’t read a lot of books.

Books

Fiction
Audeguy – The Theory of Clouds
Bolano – The Savage Detectives
Ellis – Crooked Little Vein
Jin – A Free Life
Nersesian – The Fuck Up
Powers – The Echo Maker

Non-Fiction
Buchanan – The Social Atom
De Landa – A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History
Gilbert – Stumbling on Happiness
Kapuscinski – Travels with Herodotus
Kugel – How To Read The Bible
George, your book about everybody being special

Comics
King – Walt And Skeezix 1
King – Walt And Skeezix 2
Schulz – Schulz’s Youth
O’Malley – Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
Tezuka – MW

Art and Architecture
Klanten – Spacecraft
Paglen – I Could Tell You, But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me
Reiser – An Atlas of Novel Tectonics

Cooking
Ruhlman – The Elements of Cooking

Music
A Bigger Splash – I Don’t Believe A Word (Innocent Bystanders)
Burns Sisters Band – I Wonder Who’s Out Tonight
Reign – Zippered Up Heart
The Viceroys – The Viceroys At Granny’s Pad
Wire – Read And Burn 3

Video Games

PS3
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
The Eye of Judgement
Virtua Fighter 5

So, um

geoffrey — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:17:21 +0000

…see you next year. Seriously, what games should I get for this thing? I’m thinking Rachet & Clank (NYT rave), Oblivion (which apparently ate two weeks of Tom Bissell’s life) and maybe Ninja Gaiden or Virtua Fighter 5. Also v. excited about Blade Runner: The Final Cut in HD.

Update: I opened the box, and this thing is ugly. It’s the size of a small player piano and seems to be coated in a kind of lacquer I thought was only available to WASPs in the 80s. Seriously, it shines like the ashtrays in the movie Metropolitan. Weirdly done, Sony.

Another obsession dealt with

geoffrey — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:26:01 +0000

In 1992, a Japanese video game company called Kaneko made a prototype of a Beastie Boys arcade game. It was eventually released, but heavily modified and stripped of licensing. I wrote up a page to collect all known information about it in one place. I give you: The Beastie Boys Arcade Game.

Clack Clack Klack

geoffrey — Sat, 27 May 2006 16:55:01 +0000

Andreaa has a new site for her new book and a new Amazon blog. On the offhand chance that anyone who reads Litwack.org is unfamiliar, make sure to buy To Feel Stuff on August 1. Napping is okay, but don’t sleep!
Kismet is on the way. All of my people are falling into their note-slots in the cosmic harmony; me too.
Speaking of harmonies, new mixtape on the way: Platinum Cute. Kyle Minogue? A’yup. Is It All Over My Face? edit? Yes. M. Herbert remixes from YouSendIt? Correct.
Video iChat: hot, but Canada’s Cox Communications SUCKS. Stop standing in my light, Canada!
Have I been buying NintendoDS games in advance of my Lite arriving? Yeah – Brain Age and New Super Mario Bros, of course. Most looking forward to: importing Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan!, Contact (OMFG), Hotel Dusk (return of Shadowgate, looks like), and Mother 3 for the GBA slot. If they don’t bring it over I will burn the fan translation to a rom MYSELF.
Popsicle-brand Popsicles are now flavored partially with fruit juice and have been ruined, thus. It’s always apple juice, the natural fruit juice. Apple juice from concentrate is the corn syrup of the natural flavorings set. Fuck!