The end of blogging?

I haven't blogged for a while. Not in the traditional sense at least.

With the rise and rise of Facebook and Twitter, it's infinitely easier (and with more reach) to just post a quick note on Facebook, or an update on Twitter. In fact, Twitter claims to be a "microblogging" service.

Those of you paying attention to the Twitter sidebar, or those that follow me on it, will now that I much more often update it. It's easy, quick, and concise.

The same applies to Facebook really. A wall update will instantly show up on all your friends' lists, hence making it that much easier to reach everyone. Most websites now offer a "share this on facebook" link that makes posting stuff as easy as one click. Indeed, just now I saw a great video and I can't be bothered to link it here (HTML editing), instead I just clicked the "Share On Facebook" button and that's it, all posted and shared for the world to see.

I don't know. This may well be the end of blogging as we know it, or maybe of this blog.

Amazing Quick Changing Artists

I have absolutely no clue how all this is going on!

The changes with the red sheet and the confetti are simply stunning.

Courtest of Wolf - I'd link to his blog but it was last updated a year ago :p

Braid and Gobliiins are back!

Two things:

1\ The beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, BEAUTIFUL Braid is out on PC on the 30th. Don't disappoint me like you all did with World of Goo (you pirated it, ALL of you). Please buy this game. PLEASE. If only for the amazing soundtrack. And the puzzles. And the art. And the gameplay. And the story. And everything.

2\ Did anyone know that Gobliiins 4 is coming out? In fact, it's out on the 27th of this month!! Core gameplay remains exactly the same (goofy, obscure, random puzzles). The original was successful enough to spawn two sequels, but has the gameplay withstood the test of time? I guess only time will tell (pun intended)

Did I mention that everyone should buy Braid? I'm buying it AGAIN (I own the 360 version).

Don't let me down people.

The Calypso dude!

Remember the Jarre 1989 Paris La Defense extravaganza?

He had those awesome, awesome big massive puppets dancing about to Calypso 1.

Now someone has made an awesome, awesome puppet made out of Lego :D

Found here :)

And here's the youtube video for those that might have forgotten:

The 200th Edge

Edge magazine is 200 issues old this month. To celebrate, Edge have done something I think is a world first: they have created 200 unique covers for the same issue, all of which are printed and are in circulation! Now, imagine having to "catch them all".

More importantly, they're beautiful to look at. With the usual culty/pixely/newgen mix of stuff, you can behold all of them right here.

I suggest you do as I did and save them all, I have a feeling the C&VG servers will pull these soon.

Enjoy.

a classic book for a modern child

haha!

Baby Countdown!

Is to your right. Scary.

There's 3D images each week, and a dreaded (this many days left) big number at the bottom.

Oh dear.

Please Help To Make The World You're Living In Better

I've spoken about Surface To Air many times before, the seminal track by the mighty, mighty Chemical Brothers. But, I feel compelled to give it it's own post this time round.

Yesterday I was driving back from London (at night, as usual) and Surface To Air was pumping, almost exclusively on repeat, and wasn't it just bliss, hence inspiring this post :)

See, Surface To Air is one of those long, epic Chemical tracks that feature in most of their albums. Usually clocking in at 8 minutes, this one is from their 2005 album, Push The Button. Starting off with a distorted computer voice telling us to "please help to make the world you're living in better", the track starts of with just a single fluctuating bleep that sounds like a deep water diver trying to tap out a tune... this gradually builds up bit by bit until the main bass rhythm kicks in, a beautiful riff that's more guitar than electronica, all the time with little sounds of what can only be imagined as majestic and graceful sea creatures passing along the rhythm as it "surfaces to air"....

Layer upon layer of music is added to this ever repeating riff, until it explodes with percussion at what must be the "surface", and the realisation that it's all calm, serene, and beautiful up there, all alone, bar for the one or two creatures that pass you by. Probably with some man made ships or submarines making their presence evident with some metallic bleeps now and then.

It's a journey, one hell of a journey in fact. It washes you away, massages your ears, and takes you to some electronic sea bed where things are in harmony and peace with each other, and to surface to air is to breathe which is to live. This is acoustic nirvana, music at it's very best.

When it's all over you want to do it all over again, paying more and more attention to the various sounds that you might have missed before, interpreting them differently with each listen.

It's magic.