Published at: 10:08 pm - Thursday August 19 2010
So I’m rolling through Facebook, and my friend, Egan, posts some music that he claims is awesome. He knows what the hell he’s talking about, so I took a listen. I figured it would be some viral business, but I wasn’t expecting it to be this good. And then there’s the Super Space Invaders song, [...]
Published at: 10:08 am - Tuesday August 03 2010
So a little while ago, I get a message on my Twitter page from Nasty-O, a hip hop artist I met at Comic Con (along with Kevin Ray). He was the guy with the Power Glove from my Comic Con photo gallery. They were capturing a bit of video footage, but I didn’t expect that [...]
Published at: 11:05 pm - Sunday May 30 2010
I had to go back about six years to find this video just to illustrate how the mainstream can be influenced by video games without doing an overtly obvious homage or something too contrived. In this case, we have the illegal sampling of Namco’s Pac-Man sounds by Sony BMG artist Lil Flip. Pac-Man is used [...]
Published at: 09:05 pm - Thursday May 27 2010
Simon Cottee has put together a short documentary on pixel art that deserves There’s some good stuff in here, and some interesting bits. I’m glad someone is looking at the background of this style with somewhat discriminating eyes. Some decent questions are raised here, such as, is this the current day version of Minimalism or [...]
Published at: 09:05 am - Sunday May 23 2010
In this Zelda-based video, Mark Ronson is collecting all the pieces needed to make a turntable so he can go battle some old fool. It’s pretty well done. But who is Mark Ronson? Mark Ronson is a badass producer. His sister, Samantha, is that DJ chick that was dating Lindsey Lohan. He’s done work for [...]