Minecraft Adict?

I've been playing Minecraft like crazy! I love it!

Here are some pictures of my current game:

There's my home base down there! I made that! :D


Home sweet home.


The pathway to my first mine in this game.


Inside my front door.


A view of that pathway from the top of my home.


Wow! See the waterfall I found?

If you're curious about this game then check out this awesome preview trailer:

Coachelletta - Coachella Tilt Shifted

I'm a fan of well done tilt shift photography and videos. Tilt shifting leads to a whimsical effect where things appear to be in miniature and it looks wonderful here in this video created at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Coachelletta from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

Via Gizmodo

Happy 25th Anniversary NES!

Holy cow! Has it really been 25 years?

I found this awesome quote from someone reminiscing about their memories of the venerable old console on Kotaku.

"I used to play Mario and Zelda with my brother and my dad all the time. My dad might have been more obsessed with Zelda than we were. I must have been in kindergarten or first grade, but either way, my mom picked me up from school, and told me that dad was home because he was really sick with the flu. When I got home, I ran to my parents' room to see how he was. He was laying in bed, and could hardly speak, but the first thing he said to me in a barely audible voice was "I beat Zelda." I'll probably never forget that." - Niraj

Giant Muffin Brawlers - pixel art animation

Behold the Giant Muffin Brawlers!

From the video description:

"This was made for a college assignment in about 50 hours. We had to make a ~40 seconds video with the subject of our choice, using adobe After Effects. I made mine in pixel art because, heh its what I do...

After effects and pixel art dont really mix so well though, had quite a bit of problems with that. Like it doesnt seem to take indexed color images well for one, so I had to go through every animation frame and convert them individually every time I wanted to change a detail.
Also note that, made in after effect, this is not "pure" pixel art by any means: After effects does motion blurring and a lot of other things that I didnt have to do manually, and there's also a mix in resolutions there.

But I really like the result! It looks pretty darn neat I think!

Also, the main character of the video is a friend of mine, Michael Émond. He was originally going to work on the video with me, but we later decided to work on our own videos separately instead."

Cheetahmen 3D by coda

So what does it have to do with the Cheetahmen?
What does it have to do with 3D?

Who cares! It's a sweet 8-bit chiptune! :D


So what are you looking at in the video? Those are how the notes look in a tracker, a common type of computer program for writing chip music.

Check out coda's other work at 8bit Collective here's his profile page: Link
Download the tune for free here: Link

Sunrise

I saw the sky putting on this beautiful display this morning so I took a picture.


Picture taken with Sony Ericsson W760 cellphone and cropped to take out the parking lot with post processing to correct color, contrast, and to try to make the digital photo less noisy.

Spooky Pixel Castle

Trepidation Castle



Another one of my personal creations.

Pipes - Pixel Animation by Me! :)

100x100 pixels . . .



and a tiny 50x50 version.