Urville

I saw a short documentary on autistic people and especially on autistic people with savant characteristics. Most of the documentary featured a man namned Gilles Terhin who had out of his head created the imaginary city Urville. His feeling for details and his obsession with drawing this really produced some amazing pictures and views of his city. I was very impressed with the scenery in his pictures, the sheer amount of detail and the creative vision of this city. Is this a paradox, an autistic person with a vivid imagination? I dunno, but I liked it and could not resist buying his book that contained a lot of (maybe all?) of the drawings of Urville.
By the way, I wrote this post a few months back but didn't publish it then, can't remember why, but I'm doing it now.

I'm a Bongo, Bongo man

I got a pair of Bongos! Really cool instrument, too bad I suck on playing instruments. But I'm gonna give it a try, really put my back into it so to speak. First of all I need to find someone who can teach me the basic strikes and rythms to work with.
Note: Bongos shown in the picture are not the Bongos presently in my possesion.

I'm a Bongoman!

The Largest LEGO model EVER!

Measuring 84 cm (33") and consisting of over 5,000 pieces it is, the largest LEGO model ever. I'm sorry about geeking out like this, but I just had to point out this enginering masterpiece. Han Solo couldn't be prouder of this reconstruction of his starship.
Ulitmate Collector's Millenium Falcon

Oblivion Alchemy

After finding myself spending way too much time on trying to figure out which ingredients I need, how to mix them and so on I decided to take a more rational approach to this. I took the data found on the OblivionWiki and shuffled around in Excel for a bit. The result is an Excel-sheet that allows you to sort, filter and mix potions (without having to do it in the game). I found it reduces the time spent simply scrolling up and down in the ingerdients list.

I have yet not decided how I feel about having the laptop next to me when gaming though, feels just a little bit lit cheating... Not sure how or why, but it does.

As soon as I figure out how to post files here, I will post the Excel-sheet for anyone who wants to to play around with.

Nacho Libre!

I was not surprised to see that Jared Hess, the director and writer of Napoleon Dynamite, was the director of Nacho Libre as well. The presence of Jack Black in the movie made the entire 'feel' of Nacho Libre slightly less subtle than Napoleon Dynamite, yet I found myself appreciating it a lot. The jokes were slightly more overt, whereas in Napoleon the jokes were not relly jokes, just a play with different characters nerdiness and/or offset personas. However obvious the jokes and set-up in Nacho it is still very funny.
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-cho!

Thru The Fire!

My instructor and friend John Koeshall has finally lifted the curtain to reveal his new organisation and also the website, Thru The Fire.

I expect some very cool stuff to be happening soon.

Wee Planets...

Found this very interesting photo project while surfing around on flickr:
Wee Planets by the user gadl. Cool and inspiring...

Nintendo DS

I bought the R4 card for my Nintendo DS in Thailand. So far it has been working like a charm. It holds a small OS capable of displaying pictures, playing music and of course, run NDS ROM files.
After looking around for some nice homebrew software I stumbled upon this site witch held a lot of usefull software for the DS. What I really would like is a chinese flash cards app for the DS. That would be awsome, the combination of the stylus and the ability to take it with you just opens up a whole new world of practice. If I find any, I will post them here.

Thailand, Homecoming

I really didn't have time to upload too many photos while in Thailand (what with the Thai internet cafes' slower-than-modem-connections. But now I have.

The pictures are those from Koh Lanta, Koh Phi Phi and Ao Nang and are found here:
my picasa webalbum

Enjoy!

Amazing!

I saw this game trailer and was just totally amazed at the beauty of the graphics. Having just recently been to Thailand I could also relate to the environment witch felt good.

Take a look at Crysis, the next game from CryTek (who created FarCry):
http://www.eurogamer.net/tv_video.php?playlist_id=1955&s=l