8-bit Visuals with Bit Shifter, flight404, noteNdo – Because Processing Can be Lo-Fi, Too (2)
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Bit Shifter & Flight404 • “Feedback” / “Flight Risk” from Bit Shifter on Vimeo. It’s not just sound going chip, lo-fi, retro. Live visuals are, too. With Jaymis at Brisbane’s Game On fest and New York’s chip blowout the Blip Festival coming up next week, it seems a perfect time to look at some inspired 8-bit visuals – call them, instead of chiptune, chipviz? Both are set to the wonderful sounds of Bit Shifter, a ...
Create Analog Motion: Stroboscope Creation Animates Sequences, Syncs to Game Boy Music (2)
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The stroboscope, dating back to 1832, is likely the earliest animation device. This is motion graphics, 19th Century-style: rotating a series of images and sync the speed of the rotation so the observer sees motion. Modern hacker, bender, chiptune musician, and artist Gijs Gieskes has his own spin on the idea: he’s built an electronic stroboscope that can record sequences of motion and sync the animations to the clock of Game Boy musical app LSDJ. ...
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snailsnail said:
Amazing.I love the combination of variously anachronistic technologies. I imagine this as the kind of thing that Michel Gondry might create.
GTA: Chinatown Wars to feature entire Liberty City (2)
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Filed under: Nintendo DS, Action Spanish magazine Hispana has published a new preview of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars in which it discloses that the gameplay won't be limited to, well, Chinatown. In fact, the mag states that the full areas of Duke, Bohan, Broker, and Algonquin from GTA IV will be part of the handheld title's game world, although Alderney (New Jersey in "real life") won't.The magazine also offers a few more nifty details, ...
UK: House Rents Fall (2)
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From The Times: House rents fall as unsold properties flood market (hat tip James) Rents fell for the first time in five years between July and October as home-movers flooded the rental market with properties that they could not sell....It is the first time since 2003 that the gauge of rental yields has turned negative. James Scott-Lee, of RICS, said: “Many vendors have been forced to become amateur landlords, creating an inevitable downward pressure on ...
Lake Erie shores get 2 feet of snow (1)
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Almost 2 feet of snow has fallen in western New York and more is coming along the southern shore of Lake Erie from Cleveland, Ohio, to Buffalo, the National Weather Service said Monday.
Free Album Of 8-Bit Nine Inch Nails Covers (1)
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Robo-Bot Records has release a free album of Nine Inch Nails covers by 8-bit chiptune artists, Nine Chip Nails. The compilation was organized at the 8 Bit Collective forum. Tracks: Little-scale: The day the world went away SCSI: Down In It Microchip: Survivalism Kyotosapian: Heresy Subway Sonicbeat: Eraser Hartfelt: Hurt The download is available from the Robo-Bot site.
super mario camo hoodie: hide in the mushroom kingdom (2)
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While it won’t necessarily protect you the next time you head out to play paintball, this camouflage Super Mario Brothers hoodie will definitely help you stay hidden the next time you visit the Mushroom Kingdom. Covered from head to waist with graphics inspired by the classic 8-bit platformer, the (slightly misspelled) MarioFlauge hoodie is perfect for the Mario fanatic in your life. The Cotton/Poly hoodie is perfect for keeping warm in the cool days ahead. ...
The Obama-McCain "Return Night" Reconciliation: Lasting Hope or Fleeting Moment? (1)
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On Thursday, in Georgetown, Delaware, the losing and winning candidates from the various contests around that state will assemble for Return Day. In a ritual tracing its roots to 1791, voters and politicians will hear the official electoral returns and make nice, no matter how bitter their campaigns may have been. In addition to parading together down the main street in antique automobiles, the rivals will bury a ceremonial tomahawk, quite literally burying the hatchet. ...
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"Understanding the daunting challenges ahead, he called, Franklin D. Roosevelt-style, for a spirit of community and self-sacrifice. Acknowledging the more than 48 million voters who voted against him, he reached out to his opponents. And, distancing himself from the Bush Administration, Obama also appealed to the good people around the world listening in – while warning America’s foes not to underestimate him. As an added bonus for historians, his story about Ann Nixon Cooper, the 106-year-old African American woman who voted for him, offered a wonderful trip-tych of twentieth century history, punctuated by the supposedly “timeless” but actually quite contemporary and Obamian credo “Yes We Can.”"
Googlephone Jailbreak: Remote Access Gained (1)
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What with its open source operating system and developer-friendly nature, cracking open phones running Google's Android was always going to be easier than the full-on assault that was required to hack the iPhone, but we're still impressed by the speed with which hackers have broken the T-Mobile G1. First is full access to the file system on the phone. This part is easy, but you could potentially break everything with an errant rm -r. You ...
The "In Defense of Whitey" Offensive (1)
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OK, so is it just me or has anyone else noticed that in all of the Brink's Home Security commercials they portray ONLY white guys as the criminal?? What the fuck?? I mean, honestly, it is really starting to fucking offend me because everyone knows that statistically white people are the victims and not the criminals and someone has to not be afraid to speak up about the fact that they are promoting a false ...
GoG For All! Yes, Even You, Stinky (3)
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At last - Good Old Games, the lovely, cheapie, DRM-free (DON’T SAY A BLOODY BORING WORD ABOUT BLOODY BORING DRM) download service specifically dedicated to olde worlde classics of PC gaming - and often out of print ones at that - has finally thrown open its doors to the whole wide world. It’s no longer a closed beta, but an open beta - by which it presumably means ‘actually launched but “beta” sounds cooler’. Nonetheless ...
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Good old Games, it's like a wish for old gamers gaming true - DRM free!
Use 10 Fingers with Stantum’s True Multi-Touch (1)
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I guess it is just a multi-touch morning here at GBM. A company called Stantum’s product is called “True Multi-Touch” and it allows all you to work with all 10 fingers on the screen. The interface also lets you create a stack of gestures and controls for manipulating the screen. The folks at ElectricPig got their hands and fingers on the device and seemed to be impressed. They alluded to a 3.5 inch version for ...
atari 2600 + guitar hero = atari hero [casemod] (1)
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Conner over at SlipperyBrick just tipped me off to his latest creation, and it’s quite a doozy. Combining two of my favorite pastimes, Guitar Hero and the Atari 2600, this new casemod is a real beaut. Just plug your old Atari 2600 cartridges into the body of this heavily customized Guitar Hero Gibson Les Paul, and you can play all of your favorite 8-bit classics. The console is wrapped up in a custom cut circuite ...
MTV Networks purchases Social Project outright (1)
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Acquisition of software group could give MTVN a chance to link social networking and sharing on the web with television setsShared by JONES Matthew (7)Contribute comment
