
Video game cover band Arm Cannon wins the Albotas.com “Amp of the Century” award. This is actually the first nerdily customized guitar amp I think I’ve ever seen. Gotta’ hunt the internet for more.
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Video game cover band Arm Cannon wins the Albotas.com “Amp of the Century” award. This is actually the first nerdily customized guitar amp I think I’ve ever seen. Gotta’ hunt the internet for more. [Via Capcom Unity]
I’ve noticed that the retro gaming aesthetic is becoming increasingly popular in the media and advertising lately. Above is a Nike ad featuring the French footballer Patrice Evra. [Via Sci-Fi Wasabi] And speaking of cool 8-bit videos, p0ntanamobay posted this cool video for DJ I-Dee’s “Swollen Dome” on the boards.
8 Bit Weapon was actually the first chiptune artist I’d ever heard of about 4 or 5 years ago. I actually remember a friend of mine saying that the novelty of chiptunes would wear of and I’d get bored with it. He couldn’t have been more wrong. The chiptune scene is growing more and more each year and finally being featured regularly in the mainstream gaming media. It’s only natural that like other genres, chiptunes would take on classic holiday music. You know a genre’s made it when it finally has a decent catalog of Christmas tunes. 8 Bit Weapon and ComputeHer (which I’ve actually never heard of before now) have teamed up to produce It’s a Chiptune Holiday, an 8 track album which comes in a limited edition handmade 5.25″ floppy disk CD case. You can pick one up at either the 8 Bit Weapon or ComputeHer online store for only $9.95 with free worldwide shipping. [Via Kotaku]
Fez is that blew the collective minds of gamers at the 2008 Independent Games Festival. The creative use of 2D mixed with 3D was awesome enough, but the effects were enhanced with the awesome soundtrack by chiptune artist 6955.
Three unreleased demo tracks are available for free in the form of an EP (implying that a full album is on the way?) that Polytron Corporation has made available as a free download here. There’s also a torrent available right here. Or, for the super-duper-hardcore, there’s the mega-limited, awesomely-packaged 8cm CDR (pictured above) for only $10 — ten fucking dollars, people!!! — and it’s limited to just 250 copies in the entire galaxy!!! Whoever buys this for me gets a blowjob, clitoris tickle, or ham sandwich in return. I’ll make the ham sandwich myself, but I can’t say the same about the other rewards. Totally irrelevant, but somewhat related side story:
So, back when Fez was first announced, my girlfriend made these awesome plushies of Gomez, the game’s main character. She hand-made 50 of these things and sold ‘em all on Etsy. Eventually, Phil Fish from Polytron Corporation caught wind of it and sent an email asking that she limits production to no more than 50 because what my gf was doing was basically copyright infringement and they’d hoped to make Fez plushies at some point. He also asked if he could have one. The plan was for my GF to make a Fez for everyone at Polytron, but after the initial 50, her hands were all kinds of jacked up, so she took a small break which turned into a huge break which turned into her never getting around to it at all. I feel pretty shitty about the whole ordeal and I think that Phil Fish hates my guts and everything Albotas-related. Maybe I’ll get the GF a sewing machine for X-mas so she can finished what her lazy woman ass started.
Jamin Hoyle (aka “Mr. BRANWELLINGTON”) sends in this video of him making two huge Where the Wild Things Are chalk murals at the Arnold DC ad agency in Washington D.C. where he also works. About the murals, Jamin says:
Dig it, I do! Thanks so much for sending this in, Jamin! Excellent work! You should probably wear a dust mask next time. I bet you were blowing chalk boogers for a week. And for those wondering about the song playing in the background, it’s the indie rock anthem “Wake Up” by the legendary Arcade Fire. It’s the same song used in the TV spots for the Where the Wild Things Are movie. It’s an awesome song by a truly awesome band that I highly recommend you check out if you didn’t get around to doing so when their debut album dropped back in 2004. Seriously, get on it, you slowpokes.
Warning: this video contains large amounts of the following: cleavage, butts, buttsex, hippopatamus butt rape, tongue rape, anal inflation, poop, airplane rape, magical mustachioed boner faeries, semen, bukakke, shish-kabobbing, and awesomeness.If this was a real game, I’d play the shit out of it.
Flairs -- Truckers Delight (YouTube) [Via Nerdcore]
This video for the song “Follow Me” by Pato Pooh featuring Adam Tensta is just brilliant. It mixes classic 8-Bit gaming sprites with some 2009 glossy design aesthetic. The song also has a chiptune vibe to it that’s actually pretty awesome. Seriously, you need to watch this. You can also download Pato Pooh’s entire album here. Just click the link that says LADDA HEM ALBUMET GENOM ATT KLICKA HÄR. [Via 4CR]
As a huge Joel McHale fan, I’ve been watching NBC’s new comedy Community religiously since it debuted three weeks ago. My favorite part so far is hands-down the Spanish rap at the end of the 2nd episode. Tag-team beatboxing/rhyming is too just epic for words. DJ Steve Porter remixed the scene along with some other parts of the show and the results are pretty sweet. Here’s the original Spanish rap scene, which I highly advise you to watch, even if you’ve seen it already.
Steve Jones aka Eyebath made this crazy 8-bit inspired music video for the song “The Early Sheets” by The Lost Levels. I wonder if the group had any clue that the video would be 64,012 times better than their song. I also wonder if this made them a tad angry/jealous. Anyway, stick with the whole video because it gets pretty crazy near the end. [Via shape+colour] Mashup artist extraordinaire Girl Talk’s album Feed the Animals is full of all sorts of songs from every which genre, all wrapped up into one giant party anthem separated into 14 tracks. A handful of YouTubers have created video mashups to accompany the album and the whole the whole thing has been collected in embeddable form for your watching/listening pleasure. Mashup artist, or ripoff artist? Leave your thoughts in the comments.
Apparently, someone really loves Joy Division and they have a gigantically long tag to prove it. I think I’m gonna’ turn that phrase into my new taggin’ name. It’s pretty catchy. [Nerdcore via Cakehead Loves Evil]
I’m not a fan of Shakira’s music by any means. I’m simply posting the video for her song “She Wolf” as a public service to all straight men with functioning penises. You’re welcome. Semi-NSFW video in hi-def and standard after the jump. You’ll probably also wanna’ watch it on mute. Several times. Maybe even with a bottle of lotion and box of tissues nearby. Continue reading “New Shakira video is um…. wow.” → The Wu-Tang Clan are awesome enough on their own, but when you throw Legos into the mix, you get a whole new level of awesomeness. The video for Da Mystery of Chessboxin’ has been remade by Davo, who also did the short clip for Killer Tape (above) and a shot-for-shot “Director’s Cut” of Da Mystery of Chessboxin’ which breaks down the animations and makes you appreciate it a little more. Both the Da Mystery of Chessboxin’ and the Director’s Cut are embedded after the break. In true Wu-Tang fashion, you might wanna’ spark one up before hand. Continue reading “Wu-Tang Video Remade in LEGO Form” →
Diego Stocco is a sound artist who makes music out of the weirdest, most random shit you can think of. He’s done music and sound design for movies like Crank, Into The Blue, the Showtime series The Tudors, and even the game Far Cry Instincts. Hit the jump for a video of Music from a Tree, where he makes –you guessed it– music out of a tree. It actually sounds a lot better than you’d expect and it’ll probably be stuck in your head for the rest of the day. I’ve also embedded the video of Diego’s Music from Sand which, unlike Music from a Tree, uses a synthesizer, but is still cool nonetheless. Continue reading “This crazy motherf**ker makes music out of a tree. And it sounds good!” → |
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