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Really clever light/dark video toy!

Thomas Mannino — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:59:45 +0000

This is really snazzyl You can watch this video and flip a switch on the player to change the video from ‘day’ to ‘night’. Really clever. What’s even more clever and rad is that if you have a webcam up, the flash app will tell if the room is light or dark and flip the video’s switch on it’s own! Super fun. LIGHTSWITCH RAVE!

http://www.myearthhour.org/lightsoff/

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

Thomas Mannino — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:00:29 +0000

Really awesome art installation. The art, itself, has an Ethernet connection, to which it then lists itself on Ebay occasionally. If/when the auction sells, the new owner of the piece then has to plug it into the internet, only for it to list itself for sale, again. Kind of creepy, kind of awesome.

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009) – Caleb Larsen – eBay (item 110498968494 end time Mar-02-10 14:00:03 PST).

Guerrilla Gardening Development Blog

Thomas Mannino — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:30:12 +0000

This really is a fantastic example of how indie games should market themselves. I maintain that people who make games are modern day magician rock star celebrities of awesomeness, especially to those of us who grew up during the phase where there were like four game companies in the entire world.

http://guerrillagardening.wordpress.com/

“About the game” link at the top has an awesome progress blog featuring some really great videos and documentation of their process. Oh wait, I can link it here! About The Game « Guerrilla Gardening Development Blog.

Oh yeah, the game looks awesome, too :3

Wheel of Lunch

Thomas Mannino — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:00:27 +0000

This is fantastic: Put in your zipcode and give it a spin. It looks up restaurants near you, from different types of food, populates a wheel and then gives it a spin. You can use Yelp, too, for even more options. This was also made by the guy who haxored FourSquare.

Wheel of Lunch.

Single-Button Game: Spite

Thomas Mannino — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:28:46 +0000

So this year at the Game Developers Conference, they are having what they call a ‘One button games party.’ It is what it sounds like. They asked people to create games that can be played by using only one button. My friend John (@BryneShrimp) lent his artistic talents and worked with a buddy of his to make a game called Spite. It’s done in XNA so if you want to try it, it is a download/install, (in which it actually downloads more stuff while you’re installing, which scared me!)

John did an amazing job. Totally done in the style of the Zelda for the SNES.

Spite: An entry for Gamma 4 « luminance.

YouTube – UIST 2009 Student Innovation Contest – Demo Video

Thomas Mannino — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:07:21 +0000

The gaming implications are pretty rad, it would take some adjusting to but I think for the most part I wouldn’t mind if all keyboards went this way!

YouTube – UIST 2009 Student Innovation Contest – Demo Video.

Ghost Busters (1954) Trailer

Thomas Mannino — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:45:38 +0000

I’m not sure how much of this is from The Ghost Breakers, which was a film that came out in 1940 that was about a group of guys fighting ghosts, haha. It’s a little more Scooby-Do then Ghostbusters but it’s cool.

Mr. Dude here edited together a trailer of what Ghostbusters would be like if it was shot back in the day:

Ghost Busters (1954) Trailer

TacticalCorsets.com

Thomas Mannino — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:11:21 +0000

TacticalCorsets.com.

YouTube – How catnip gets cats high

Thomas Mannino — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:10:16 +0000

YouTube – How catnip gets cats high.

YouTube – The Fibonacci in Lateralus

Thomas Mannino — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:39:50 +0000

YouTube – The Fibonacci in Lateralus.