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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Events - Sunday Digital Brunch

Events - Sunday Digital Brunch

I sat down this morning with my breakfast and watched the internet spiral by for a while as I usually do.  Keeping up with the unfolding disaster in Calgary, reading the news, both internet based and real world.  It's a quiet morning, one roommate already gone to work, the other isn't a morning person.  It's langourously sleepy, and for a while, I contemplate going back to taking a nap.

A twitter message pops up, some friends I made from Pax, gamers like me, who are scattered all over the continent.

I smirk, laugh, and then insert my own zany rebuttal.  Before I can even finish my tea, the comments and messages are flying fast, dozens of messages, we're roping other people into the conversation, all over twitter!  140 characters doesn't have anything on our reconnecting.  Jokes and snarks, more laughter, I'm wide awake.

It's like sunday brunch.  You know, when you get together with your friends or your family over a leisurely meal on sunday morning.  You have nowhere to be, and nothing to do, you just relax, and reconnect with one another.  Except we're separated by literally thousands of miles.  We're actually on opposite corners of the continent (somewhat).

But the internet, the speed of connection has made our worlds instantaneously hooked in.

We're just a bunch of friends having brunch (or lunch, or afternoon tea), connecting over laughs.

That's pretty awesome.

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Navarre Island - Benedict's Letter to Despina

Navarre Island - Benedict's Letter to Despina

I had an assignment today to write different fictional pieces of writing that would fit into my campaign world.  I wrote a letter from Benedict to his unborn daughter, Despina.


Thoughts - The Problem With Records

Thoughts - The Problem With Records

We live in a strange age, this internet era of ours.  What we have come to realize is that everything, everything and anything you say or write can be recorded.  For that matter, not only can be, but usually is.  Your emails, your blog posts, your facebook status, your tweets, your text messages.  They all exist in time (and sort of space, somewhere).


Monday, June 17, 2013

Painting - invertedFall Title Screen

Painting - invertedFall Title Screen

Rebuilt my title screen for invertedFall for our prototype for tomorrow.

Quick half hour painting with oil paints, using two reference images.


Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Gaming - Feminism



Gaming - Feminism



Yesterday, my friend Elizabeth Ludwig and I had a long conversation over facebook about feminism and video games. Sort of touched off by a particular event in relation to E3, but also in a broader sense about the misconceptions we had with each others' perceptions. In the end, I pretty much talked myself into capitulating with her position, but it makes for interesting reading.



Be warned, it IS a facebook conversation, and therefore very ill-written, at least on my part.


Sunday, June 9, 2013

invertedFall - Digital Painting

invertedFall - Digital Painting

Quick digital painting I threw together that will form the basis of my Front End assignment over the next two weeks.  It's for invertedFall, one of the games I'm actively working on.

Quotes - Remember Me

Quotes - Remember Me

"In the End, man is not entirely guilty - he did not start history.  Nor is he wholly innocent - he continues it."
- Albert Camus

Monday, June 3, 2013

Painting - Speed Tree Shadow

Painting - Speed Tree Shadow

Just a really quick speedpainting I did in 3 minutes using a new tool for my computer.  Pastel and watercolors on concrete.