Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 3:26PM A few years ago, the guys and I wrote some scripts and filmed some videos of comedic nature. The guy editing them got overwhelmed, and they were lost to time. Until now.
So good.
~Jones Out
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 9:47AM I can't tell you how cool this is. Seriously, just click it, my words won't do it justice.
Basically, a guy did a mashup of 23 Daft Punk songs (Did I mention I like mash ups?) but instead of just putting the songs together audibly, he created a visualization of the mashup, displaying the layering, the cutting, and how the songs interact by showing the bass, mid, and high.
I'm in awe.
~Jones Out
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:16AM Ok. Remember how I said I like remixs? Things that change the established norm and all? Something that takes an original idea and twists it or combines it with something else to make something new?
Well there is one horrifying abomination of all of this, one disgusting invention that causes my stomach to twist and my throat to fill with bile every time I lay my eyes upon it.
Jeggings.
These are the lowest of creations energies. The horrific nightmare spawn of a psychotic designer with some hellish pact. I generally find leggings to be deplorable. Wearing leggings to class or lounge around the house or work out in is totally acceptable, but the number of women who would just toss on some leggings and uggs and hit the bars in my college town angered me. It's the same as guys wearing sweatpants everywhere we go, it's class-less.
The fact that women still do this in adult situations draws me into a maddening place in my mind. And jeggings are just making it worse.
Also, let me say this once. Men who wear jeggings. PLEASE DIE HORRIBLY AND NEVER CONTRIBUTE TO THE GENE POOL.
Now they're making jegging shorts, junderwear. This needs to stop, now and forever. I hope somewhere there is a corrective force in this society that will destroy the makers of this trend.
CollegeHumor has made jeggings funny for me though.
Now I have a headache.
~Jones Out
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at 9:20PM Just wanted to share this. I've been following this game for awhile now, because it's been in development for over a decade. It's the sequel to the epically popular game from 1996, announced in 1997. Oh btw, it's 2011. Yeah.
Duke Nukem was originally designed to be a parody of all the 80's action hero tropes. He's a womanizing, steroid using meathead who saves the world from aliens. He's also the emboidment of all the worst fantasies of 13yr old boys.
Video game history in the making here people, for better or worse.
Also, I love the song in this, though looking at pictures of the rapper makes me think I would kick the crap out of him if given the chance.
~Jones Out
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 4:49PM So I love anything that’s been re-imagined. I’m not sure why, but seeing an idea taken and twisted into something original but familiar triggers something in me. Books that are retellings of classic tales, remixes/covers/mash-ups of great songs, stories of alternate realities, I eat these things up.
So you can imagine how much I would enjoy a video game that was a darker retelling of a literary classic. Especially is that classic was also transformed into a well known and loved children’s movie. I’m talking, of course, of Alice (American McGee’s Alice, but that name is silly).
Alice is the tale of what happens after the Lewis Carroll Books, when Alice is committed and Wonderland is in ruins. Alice somehow returns (it’s been awhile since I played) and has to save Wonderland by basically carving a bloody path through the henchmen of the Red Queen. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Disney co-opted the idea for a movie recently, toning it down a bit for the kids and adding Captain Jack Sparrow as the Mad Hatter.
The game came out years and years ago, and now a sequel is being released. Cue trailer.
Seriously, how twisted does this look? This is awesome. The idea of a young girls dreams becoming more and more nightmares as she descends into madness is just brilliant. It strikes a tone with society (crazy young girls in general do I guess). Just look at recent block buster Sucker Punch. It’s essentially Alice in Wonderland, only they actually let you know it’s all happening in her heard.
Oh, and there are giant samurai. Wonderland with samurai. Brilliant.
~Jones Out
