Archive for September, 2007
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Sep 27, 2007
Girls and Games. And Mega Man.
Posted in Games, Quotes, Retro
A few days ago I received the Metroid: Zero Mission GBA game. I play lots of GBA games on my DS because they’re much cheaper and the same fun. But I must confess: I’ve never played any game of the Metroid series before. -
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Sep 20, 2007
Things that are easy in the computer…
Posted in Art, CGI & Rendering, Random Thoughts
…but not in real life. Clipping errors for example. I guess everybody of you has seen them by now. Imagine the first Playstation games that came in 3D, especially the buggy ones where solid objects began overlapping each other. In fact it happens so often when working in 3D that even Pixar’s A Bug’s Life had some clipping errors going on in the grass now and then. It’s so ridiculously easy in the computer to do the impossible in the real world. -
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Sep 17, 2007
Meeting Chuck from Fight Club
Posted in Funny?, People, Quotes, Reports
This summer Lisa and really like harvesting strange autographs (like this one). To add another one we went to Munich on Wednesday to see Chuck Palahniuk, the novelist who wrote books such as Survivor, Choke or Fight Club, who held a reading there in the Café Muffathalle. -
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Sep 16, 2007
Times is Money
Posted in Random Thoughts, Rants
I’ve been to Munich recently and searched the town for an issue of the Herald Tribune. Hell, even in Graz you have more international magazines than in the culs-de-sac of newspaper kiosks in Munich. At least I could get my grips on the New York Times (not even any kind of week-end or special issue) which cost you in New York $ 1.25. Now guess what I’ve paid at the kiosk at the train station for a single issue I had to ask the clerk to hand me personally because there was only one (!) available behind his counter: -
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Sep 08, 2007
I need some friends!
Posted in Games
The social networking on the Wii definitely sucks ass: When you don’t have any friends in real life (who does anyway?) you won’t have any in Wii-wonderland either. I am really looking forward to a nice Mii-parade with all of your Miis (provided you have some and set them to “Mingle”). -
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Sep 07, 2007
Mario’s Mastercard
Posted in Games, Vista Issues
I just connected my Wii to the Web via a far too expensive original Nintendo Wi-Fi USB connector. And guess what doesn’t work with Vista 64 bit. Why did I purchase that crap anyway? So I had to hook up my notebook to the web causing my meticulously planned cable setup here in Graz to end in chaos. And after two depressing hours it finally works. -
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Sep 06, 2007
♫ Video Game Music
Posted in Games, Music, Seph Carissa / texx sound
I have been quite productive during the holidays but still wasn’t able to finish the last part of the Zodiac Font Family. But about a month ago I finished Contact for the DS. Especially some tunes of the music still linger in the back of my head but back then I wanted to make something in the style of the Battle music of a Japanese RPG. And before that I was layouting a couple of tunes for Jonny 1 Hennebichler’s computer game concept Skyscrapers, a mix between Bridge Builder, SimTower and a little Hotel Giant. Although it’s never going to be made I think the tunes came off quite nicely. And because today’s my birthday I want them to be your present too.- yes, Johnny without the “h”. Jonny. ↩
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Sep 05, 2007
“Having guts always works out for me”
Posted in Photography, Reports
Are you looking for something about Stefan Sagmeister’s work? You might want to read this post! Cheers!This quote originally comes from Stefan Sagmeister’s little story he told the listeners in his lecture in Salzburg this March and is more or less the motto of my business trip to Salzburg, where I was photographing for the Salzburg Seminar, as you already know. And it was great! Meeting so many very interesting, very nice and very important personalities definitely is as enriching as it is exciting. And it was a good way to brush up my English because of the high intellectual level of the discussions and lectures I had to photograph. Below is a selection of the best photographs just for you. I will release some of them into public domain later on because Wikipedia is missing many of the speakers’ photographs.
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Sep 02, 2007
The Seminar
Posted in Photography, Reports
Sorry folks, the final Zodiac handprint will be delayed a few days as it seems because I got a photographing job on short notice in Salzburg. I got a call from Ben Glahn who is Program Director of the Salzburg Seminar to photograph two days of the event. I am not only interested in taking photos but on the insight I get when listening to the big shots who will be there talking about this seminar’s subject of
Balancing Security, Democracy, and Human Rights in an Age of Terrorism
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I had to promise Lisa to bring her an autograph of her idol Sandra Day O’Connor when I have the opportunity to. I just hope I won’t chicken out…I better get some sleep because my train will leave in 3 hours… phew. See you in Salzburg!
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Sep 01, 2007
Zodiac Killer Font, Pt. II
Posted in Donationware, Fonts
Another day, another font. This time it’s another style written by the Cipher Killer Zodiac, when he was a little more same and rational when writing letters. That’s why it’s called Zanity. And I started out with OpenType and custom ligatures for all of you font buffs out there.
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