2005 Machinima Film Festival
If you happen to be in or around NYC somewhere this weekend, make sure you don’t miss the 2005 Machinima Festival, which looks like it’s going to be mighty interesting
Machinima, derived from the words ‘machine’ and ‘cinema’, is the process of making animated movies using the software engines and imagery of video games. It combines aspects of computer animation, game development, puppetry, graffiti, fan fiction, and improvisational theater into an evolving, innovative moving image art form that represents the latest frontier of electronic popular culture.
when: Saturday, November 12, 2005 11:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
where: Museum of the Moving Image Astoria, NY (directions)
Explorer Destroyer!
It’s time for a good-old browserwar!
I installed a script from explorerdestroyer.com so if you’re surfing here with IE, you get notified that, well, there’s a much better browser out there, just for the grabs… :D
It’s like Google is your sponsor in the MS Readathon, except it’s the MS Fuckoverathon** and you keep the money! :-)
Also see:
How-To: Put your iBook on steroids
A step-by-step to turn your iBook12” into a PowerBook12”-killer
The guys over at macbidouille.com have posted an excellent guide in how to pimp your 12” ibook so that it gets similar specs as it’s bigger brother, the 12” powerbook…
Modification totale d’un ibook G4 12” (en français)
Put your iBook on steroids (in english)
Now I still need to find out if I could fit G3-skins on a G4, so I could custom-colour such a beauty like my current ibook… these specs + a custom colour = ideal (imho)
Mad Max DIY bike
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This Chinese(?) DIY bike is one awesome bike… I mean, as far as I can see it consists only of parts meant for totally different purposes probably and still the maker/creator ended up with a bike which would be the baddest bike on the block, whereever that would be, hands down, for sure. Simply amazing…
How-To: The Magic Phone, Part 1
Check out Fabienne’s latest How-To over at engadget:
The Magic Phone, Part 1: Number Pad Matrix Decoding
click to go to the How-To
Test each button combination to make sure you haven’t made any human errors. If your handset displays “1337 1337 1337357” you may win bonus points. Congrats!
:-)
BTW This was also the project she brought to the Maker Faire.
getting to grips with OSx86
The last few days I’ve been busy with having my own spin at the wheel called OSx86…
click to go to the corresponding project-page
You can read all about it on my project-page
...and yes, that’s a Cinema Display (thank for borrowing it to me, John!)
How to: knit a skull scarf
Well, I just had to blog this one…
click to go to… ahum, knitty.com ;-)
How could I not blog this, after my own embroider-how-to? Embroidering, knitting, what’s the difference? :D
cordless nano headphones
I was talking about the apex of industrial design a couple of posts down, not that I have any knowledge on the subject, but still, this must be the apex of ipod-accessory-design until now… (imho!)
click to go to the macally-website
Macally mTUNE-N Cordless Stereo Headset for iPod® nano
...euhm, the cordless is quite obvious… I guess that must’ve been the bright moment of one of the marketingpeople
Anyways, I love it, I’d have it, if I’d have a nano that is…
FlickrFS: post your pix from the command-line!
click to go to my flickr
I just started using Flickr myself, even though I have a gallery uphere. Somehow I always felt like I have to have a bunch of pics of some kind of event or such, before I put them in an album in my gallery. Somehow I don’t have that feeling with Flickr… (my pics can be found here btw)
Anyways, it seems I stepped in at a right time, cause now there also is FlickrFS! Enabling you to upload pics from the command-line, with tags and all! Ain’t it great? ;-)
Quake IV level panoramas
click to go to VRmag
Vrmag, a panoramic pictures dedicated online magazine, has released superb in-game fullscreen Quicktime panoramic screenshots of some Quake IV levels.
Now, I don’t consider myself a gamer, but Quake is my all-time favourite if I had to pick any, and this looks awesome :-)
