In Honour Of The Master via Riemann's Cut
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Visualisation Of Japanese Earthquakes In 2011 via Riemann's Cut
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blow my mind via Holy Shmoly!
It makes me happy that images like this can blow my mind and give me pause for thought.
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Batman Forever is an amazing looking Amstrad CPC demo made last year and won first place in the CPC Demo compo at Forever 2011.
Stunning artwork, great effects but perhaps a little bit of the old school yard “my computer is better than your one” in there too. Not too fond of the Commodore 64 are they?
Also check out pushnpop.net, an Amstrad demoscene website! It even has an article on cross-platform development using Linux and Vim!
Thanks Keith for leaving a comment in my last post about this demo. Well worth watching!
In related news, the 1541-II I ordered last week arrived this morning. I’m waiting on the zoomfloppy USB interface to connect it to my laptop now. Fingers crossed it’ll work and it’s not too late for my 20 year old Commodore 64 5 1/4 discs.... Look Back on Anger via Close Watch
As the MUBI Notebook film news site reminds us, Kenneth Anger turns 85 today. The filmmaker whose work first ensnared me into experimental film, his films remain unshakeably amongst my very favourites. Therefore it's very nice to discover, through this MUBI post, that he's used a text I wrote about him back in 2003 as the bio on his official website:www.kennethanger.orgHappy Birthday, Mr....
Amazing C64 and Speccy Pixel Art via Holy Shmoly!
Computers have always been home to amazing artwork. The C64 has so many graphics modes that artists were spoiled for choice near the end of the machine’s life. Luckily, artists are still working on the machine and releasing stuff even now!
You can find some amazing Commodore 64 artwork on c64pixels.com and it’s even sorted by graphics format like hires, FLI and others.
There’s also a comprehensive and detailed collection at CSDB of course but it does have a gallery. You’ll have to click through to each image to view it.
Here’s a wonderful ZX Spectrum gallery. The Speccy was known for attribute clash but despite this you can create really amazing work if you know what you’re doing. Check out this Binary Zone tribute to Speccy artist David Thorpe.... Chrome bug: it forgets browsing sessions! via Holy Shmoly!
I just reported my first Chrome bug but it looks like it’s been known for quite some time, unfortunately.
When Chrome is configured to open the home page on startup it forgets any recently opened tabs if you don’t open those pages before you close the browser again. I’m fairly certain it used to do the right thing before and remember those pages but I’m not sure when that behaviour changed.
Unfortunately Firefox does the same thing. Go to History->Restore Previous Session and it will restore the home page in the same circumstances. I’m almost certain that browser did the right thing in a previous release.
If one were pedantic, the previous session was the single homepage tab and not the dozen tabs I had open before my browser was closed but it’s not... Three Guards And A Bicyclist via Riemann's Cut
A grinning loolah runs through the long grass, clutching a bike, while a Guard strides behind in slow motion. Two more Guards appear. The man falls down and all three Gurads walk away, nonchalant like. Then, and with impeccable timing, the man rises up from the grass and says that he was quoted the Road Traffic Act. Is this Irish Monty Python or what!? "Help, help! I'm being repressed!"...
“They Only Make Clothes For Skinny Bitches!” (Tommy Tiernan) via Riemann's Cut
An old idea, about an old quote, using an even older photograph. I'm not sure if Jacobs even make FigRoll bars any more. This concoction of Figrolls and Nutella was highly addictive and probably provided enough calories for a Soyuz spacecraft to escape Earth's atmosphere. I'm not sure what the Doom connection is though.
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"You are what you eat" or so they say. Kate Moss must be a big ball of cocaine then. What is Kate Moss up to these days anyway. Didn't she die with Amy Winehouse or something? Or was that Pete Doherty? I recall some kind of connection there. ... Ron Paul With A Beard via Riemann's Cut
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Humble Bundle on Android via Holy Shmoly!
The latest Humble Bundle is out and features Android as well as Windows/Linux and Mac versions of the following games: World of Goo, EDGE, Osmos and Anomaly.
Related Posts Humble Bundle #3 Humble Bundle goes Open Source I just paid $40 for the Humble Indie... CONTACT @ Berlin International Director’s Lounge 8 via Close Watch
Contact, the film in which Vicky Langan and I delve into Super-8 textures, will play in the 8th edition of The Berlin International Directors Lounge. We're in DL Selection VII, which is on Thursday, February 16th at 9pm. We share the programme with, amongst others, the notorious J.X. Williams...For more details, visit this page and scroll down a...
EXPERIMENTAL CONVERSATIONS Update: Abel Ferrara in Conversation with Donal Foreman via Close Watch
An exciting late addition to Experimental Conversations Issue 8: Donal Foreman's superb interview with Abel Ferrara:http://www.experimentalconversations.com/articles/969/filming-your-life-no-matter-what-an-interview-wit/...
Please hack me I need it! via Holy Shmoly!
Just one of the many kids on ps3 who message me asking for Modern Warfare 2 hacks.
10th prestige hack anyone? There’s a ready market of players who want to cheat their way to the top!
BTW – the new WordPress app for Android kicks ass!
Related Posts hack a day An Xft Hack – just going to te … "Just... Mastering Machine Code on your Commodore 64 via Holy Shmoly!
Before the internet became popular and the web was still in diapers I had a Commodore 64 at home. “Mastering Machine Code on your Commodore 64″ by Mark Greenshields was the first programming book I owned that wasn’t full of BASIC listings and opened my eyes to the wonders of low level assembly development. It was a daunting task learning machine code on my own but I devoured the book and learned so much by looking at the code in demos and games of the time.
The book was originally published in 1984, and I discovered it in a small bookshop next to Paul Street Shopping Centre in Cork sometime in 1990 or 1991. I still remember the excitement I felt at finding any book on the subject. The city library had books on computers, even one or two on building robots and things you... Upcoming Rashidi / Le Cain Screening Series in Cork via Close Watch
As part of his upcoming residency at The Guesthouse, Cork, Rouzbeh Rashidi will be presenting three screenings each consisting of one of his features and one of my shorter works:Thursday 2nd February 2012, 8pmTen Minutes Isn't Worth a Dream (2010) 25min by Maximilian Le CainBipedality (2010) 67min by Rouzbeh RashidiWednesday 8th February 2012, 8pmPrivate Report (2009) 36min by Maximilian Le CainCremation of an Ideology (2011) 62min by Rouzbeh RashidiWednesday 15th February 2012, 8pm... And The Poor Bird Died (2009) 10min by Maximilian Le Caintenebrous city and ill-lighted mortals (2011) 66min by Rouzbeh RashidiFor more...
Lets Take Vincent Browne On An Adventure! via Riemann's Cut
I came across this wonderful image of Vincent Browne recently, in my continuous scouring of flickr.com. It was taken by UnkieDave just before Christmas, at the Occupy Dame Street protests, where Vincent spent some time interviewing protesters for his TV3 television program. I loved it so much that I spent some time removing him from the the background, so that he could easily pop into any image. I have included the "cut out" in PNG format, with necessary alpha layer, on the left. If you click on it, it will bring you to the full size PNG which you can save and layer onto your own creation! I've included some examples below, to get your mind working.
* If you do happen to use the PNG image, and feel like only crediting one source, please link the...
Vicky Langan on Vimeo via Close Watch
My frequent accomplice Vicky Langan has set up a Vimeo channel to showcase documentation of her extraordinary peformances:http://vimeo.com/vickylangan Videos will be added to this channel on a regular...
THE LAST OF DEDUCTIVE FRAMES Scene 4 Online via Close Watch
The above still is of my regular leading man John McCarthy in Scene 4 of The Last of Deductive Frames, which can be seen...
Fluffy Links – Saturday January 28th 2012 via Damien Mulley
The One Were I Play A Special Request via Riemann's Cut
If you petition the Gammagoblin it may very well work and you will have your content/story/underpants exposed on Riemann's Cut. There will be a price to this of course, not a monetary price no, but something far worse. I'm still not sure what that means but I'll be sure to let you know if it involves some form of lubrication.
I got an email full of praise and admiration, which fell just short of offering me a blowjob, if I included the video above, in a blog post. I very nearly just deleted this message as I often get generic spam from Youtube. These spam Youtube videos usually have some sort of new-age Jesus theme, or are from young teenage girls. For security reasons I always investigate the latter type, just in case, you know. This was different though, this was an email from Rob...
Ghosts ‘n Goblins is much easier.. via Holy Shmoly!
Games are a hell of a lot easier when they’re trained! Ghosts ‘n Goblins was one of the first games I dived into to see how it worked back in the day. Earlier I played a remix of it’s soundtrack and fired up the game afterwards. I remembered it was hard but compared to games today it’s a demon!
Luckily it was trained and my son and I had an enjoyable half hour shooting the baddies and jumping from platform to platform. I wish the compatible joysticks from back then had more than one button, left/right and up to diagonal jump is a PITA!
In case you’re wondering, a trained game is where the game has been hacked and various cheats added. Usually a fancy intro with swirling graphics and music is added at the start and the group that has hacked the game give you... Can’t login to Games for Windows Live? via Holy Shmoly!
I changed my Xbox Live password recently and found I couldn’t login to GFWL this evening. “No problem”, I thought. Just change the password to my new one.
No, I can’t change the password. I can select the password field. It’s active, I can move the cursor back and forward but I can’t type or delete the * characters.
Luckily it was a simple, if non obvious, fix to get around this. Uncheck the “Save my e-mail address and password” and “Sign me in automatically” checkboxes. Now you can select the password field and change it. Don’t forget to “remember” the password again..
Yes, Games for Windows Live is a POS.
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An entertaining statue via In Photos dot Org
A street performer in Galway City last September. Put money in his box and he’d shake a bit and make some noise. Only kids stopped to watch him.
Adults hurried by.
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If you’ve had enough of SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, bailouts, the Euro defaulting, rising oil prices and the rest of the bad news you’ll enjoy this video.
By chance we have a Shitzu at home and a black and white cat (daughter of this cute little fella). They’re friendly but not like these two!
I expect this video will be pulled from Youtube just as soon as the copyright holder matches the song.. Oh well.
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Remember how Lamar Smith, sponsor of SOPA, used a copyrighted image for his website’s background image without permission? Sean Sherlock, the junior minister preparing Ireland’s SOPA did something similar on his website (which is currently down).
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Before the end of this month the Irish Government will introduce a very vague copyright protection law. It won’t be debated in the Dáil as it will be enacted by a ministerial order. Protection of copyright is a laudable endeavour but when so little is known about the amendment or how it’s implemented it’s impossible to figure out how it will affect us. Once IRMA get a whiff of any more power or influence you just know they’re going to abuse it! Remember the infamous “3 strikes” rule?
Before I go any further, here’s how you can help. Sign this petition or use this contact form or this list to contact your local TD to express your misgivings and anger at this law being pushed through so quickly.
From the stopsopireland.com website:
SOPA is the... Dear God via Riemann's Cut
There was a man who worked for the Post Office whose job was to process all the mail that had illegible addresses. One day, a letter came addressed in a shaky handwriting to God with no actual address. He thought he should open it to see what it was about.
The letter read:
Dear God,
I am an 83 year old widow, living on a very small pension.
Yesterday someone stole my purse. It had $100 in it, which was all the money I
had until my next pension payment.
Next Sunday is Christmas, and I had invited two of my friends over for
dinner. Without that money, I have nothing to buy food with, have no family to
turn to, and you are my only hope. Can you please help me?
Sincerely, Edna
The postal worker was touched. He showed the letter to all the other...