PreciseHero

Hey kiddos, here’s some Saturday animation for ya! But, be sure not to read this or something not so great’ll happen to you.

I was reading this Ask Lifehacker post & found out about Spotmeup. I think I’ll be uploading some music to the service pretty soon. iTunes is still something I want to experiment with & since TuneCore is doing some kind of weird month by month thing, I’ll give it a test run to see if it’s worth having my material available there. If the response is good enough, I’ll keep it there but BandCamp will remain my main base of operation.

Maybe this’ll be the Cave game I pick up. I’m not great at bullet hell games, but I love playing them anyway.

Pixel art? Adventure game? Quirkiness? References to stuff!? I’m sold.

Loved track of the morning.

Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings.

Late last year, I snapped this photograph. I felt like it said something about where I was, what I’m into, and what I do. This photograph will be the cover for the upcoming PreciseHero + Obsidian Blue project, “Hours + Miles”. No logos, no text. Simply this image to sum up the mood of the work.

I’ve yet to pick up any Cave shooters, but I’m pretty interested in this. My only worry is about the touch controls. There’s already a million things on the screen as is & it sucks away a bit of fun when your fingers are in the way, blocking the action. If they have that worked out then this’ll be great. 

Picked up the ios version of “LostWinds” this morning to support the developer & hopefully get a 3rd installment released.

So, this is what Pharrell has been up to musically eh?

This made my morning commute just that much groovier.

As someone who’s soon to leave his day gig to chase a passion, I can relate to a lot of what he says in this interview.

If the price is right, I’d pick up one of these. Then again, I’d probably just get one of these if I really wanted to go that route.

This is a subject I discuss with friends on a regular basis. Good to see others are having similar conversations.

I haven’t used TuneCore in years, but I’ll be returning to it soon. My recent material has been exclusive to BandCamp, but I want to see how many people react to my works on other services. It’s basically my attempt at being as accessible as possible to as many listeners as I can. There’s advantages to both and personally, I prefer to purchase my music through BandCamp or AmazonMP3 & do my streaming through Last.FM, but in order to reach the people that may only know about iTunes or Spotify is their streaming service of choice I’ve gotta be in those places too. This isn’t some radical new idea, it’s just one of the many pushes I’m doing in 2012 to promote my works & be more visible which isn’t exactly the easiest of task. While I’m on the topic of releases & projects, this Saturday I’ll be hooking up with Adam (of Murder Mystery) to record a few semi-live sessions. Adam’ll be manning the drums (& maybe a few other instruments) while I handle loops + rhymes. Something along the lines of this or this. Maybe adding a few new twist to the songs we’ll be performing.

So, I’ve been going back and forth on creating some sort of interactive thing. I’ve been calling it a game, but I don’t want to quite make a game. It would be more like an 8bit exploration/interaction thing. As you can see I’ve been checking out tutorials on creating sprites and have been tinkering with simple 16x16 SD style characters. Over the last few days I was totally gung ho about the project then today I sort of lost the mood as ideas and other things piled up faster than my current ability would allow my to act on. Maybe I’ll do some sort of mock-up and then see if someone more talented would be interested in collaborating on the idea with me.

So, today I got around to watching the “Beck” live-action movie. It was sort of like having someone with a fuzzy memory tell you an abridged version of what happened in the manga. It wasn’t bad, but it did skip around a bit. Parts were rearranged and as usual with these comic to real people conversions some scenes were more dramatized or left on the cutting room floor to speed things up/keep them exciting. I’d give it a solid 3 out of 5 stars.

A tale of anti-robot prejudice with a redeeming twist.

My weekly manga fix.

I aspire to be as dapper as this 10th doctor-cat.