Posts from ‘December, 2009’

The 16 best iPhone games of 2009

Long BART rides, delayed CalTrains, long waits in the line at Ritual… my iPhone has kept me going. Here is a list of (in no particular order) of the 16 most addictive iPhone games of the last year: Tower Madness- (iTunes) My favorite tower defense for the iPhone since Fieldrunners. Best known for it’s use [...]

Pitfall! link round-up

As I was researching my last piece I came across a few Pitfall! links worth posting: 1982 Pitfall! commercial starring Jack Black- Here is JB’s national tv debut! Much like Pitfall!, this video is awesome on 2 levels! Pitfall! laptop case- This needlepoint rendition of Pitfall! was created by Etsy user novellamarie. It’s still available [...]

PITFALL! (covered version)

Inspired by the fantastic Covered blog, I thought it would be fun to create a “Doc Pop” version of the classic Activision game “PITFALL!“. The piece was created over a week’s worth of BART rides, using cheap watercolor and ink. I also experimented with a “reverse” applique technique on the rainbow that looks totally for [...]

Blip Picks

Tonight is the start of the Blip Festival in NYC. Blip is one of the largest chiptune festivals in the world and has been since the first one a few years back. If you can’t make your way out to NYC this weekend, you can listen to the shows live on WFMU.org! More info here. [...]

Hot Coffee in 3-D

This weekend I attended Stan Heller‘s 3D Art Clinic at Mission Comic’s and Art. It was an introductory workshop on making stereographic images in Photoshop. I learned the fundamentals during the class and created the above anaglyphic piece at the very end of the class thanks to Stan’s help. Of course you’ll need red/cyan glasses [...]