Wed 31 Mar 2010
As promised a while back for anyone who is interested I’ve finally managed to upload the entire talk on the Phonotorope I did at the Flatpack Festival in March 2009.
As with the other Phonotrope film it’s all footage from the camera with the sound simply taken from the camera so the audio quality isn’t great.
I’ll also upload it onto the Phonotrope page too.
Tue 23 Mar 2010
Jakub Dvorský, one of the utterly talented creators of Samorost and Machinarium, has been working on this wonderful feature of which the trailer is below.
It’s all in Czech (not Polish as I had first assumed) and I personally think the better for it for the moment. It adds an utterly childlike wonder to not knowing what is actually going on but being taken away by the magic of the moment.
Mon 15 Mar 2010
I’ve just been on the phone to Richard Hart from Disturbance, a design company out in Durban, South Africa about something for something else (am being vague so as not to spoil the surprise for the exhibition that he’s doing it for).
Anyway if you want to feel low about wherever you have found yourself I highly recommend visiting their site and having a browse through ‘The Daily’ section. It’s depressing as you realise that…
a) the five or six people that make up Disturbance are so motivated to keep a daily creative record of their creative antics
b) the five or six people that make up Disturbance actually have creative antics
c) the creative antics are mostly carried out in the glorious sunshine of South Africa and look like such fun (March 8th 2010 – case in point)
… basically it’s so easy to get locked into the soul destroying day-to-day and to forget about the challenge of colouring your life which is partially why I am so happy to have handed over what I’ve just handed over to him in fact.
A lesson to us all.
Apart from all of that Disturbance do some really wonderful design, graphic and visual work in what Richard passingly described as the backwaters of Durban (in comparison to the bigger cities) and the freshness of their output just smells of the sunshine in their studio, god damn them. Have a nice hour’s browse.
Oh… and to make matters worse Richard’s third arm paints wonderful wonderful pictures.
Oh my lordy are they beautiful.
Wed 3 Mar 2010
Since 2007 there has been utter radio silence about a game enigmatically called Limbo, save for a movie teaser of some of the game play dynamics. But that in itself was utterly beautiful…
This morning I received an email from Dino Patti the CEO of PLAYDEAD the tiny team responsible for it, announcing that it is to be released on Xbox Live Arcade.
Feast your eyes my beauties, feast your eyes.
(and then go over to IGN to read a little more about it)
