5 posts tagged “rg”

*ahem* So even though Charlie is having the time of his life using his fancy camera to capture scenes of Tofu kids fighting a Castle Crasher, I ALSO got a Castle Crasher figure from PAX.  But mine is win because the box is signed by the artist of Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers himself, the very talented Dan Paladin. 

Win. WIN. .tiff 1, charlie 0.

In addition to the Castle Crasher's figure, Charlie made me a little tiny Goomba head and Phist gave me a blond wigged Afro Ken plush.  From the Pink Godzilla booth at PAX I also managed to pick up the tiny Luigi plush, along with a Boo key dongle (not shown).  Awesome.  Furthermore, my awesome friend rg was amidst moving and sent me some of his old toys that he couldn't take along.  This includes an incredible plush Donkey Kong doll from 1982 that can actually put its hands together so you can hang him on stuff.

So much WIN.

A good friend of mine, rg, and his team at Pixeljam develop fantastic 'neo-retro' flash games for the good people of earth to play!  Rat and I first became aquantainces during his starring role in Ratmaze, and now he is joined with a new rat friend to take on the many twists and turns of Ratmaze 2!

Enjoy heart-racing, cheese-sauce action left and right!  This game's goal may seem easy at first, but once you race to get a high score while uncovering the key to the bonus level (and then the Super Super Bonus level!) you get sucked in.  The simple gameplay is beatifully complimented by a bit-tastic soundtrack by Chiptune guru Mark DeNardo and rg's superb pixel art in motion, oh, and of course Mile's mad sauce boss programming skills ^_^.  So play it. Twice. Now!!!

The past three meals I've had over the course of today and yesterday have all been soups.  Matzha ball.  Chicken udon.  Lentil vegetable.  This oncoming of soups indicates a fortuitous path in the universe.  At least, for me.

The weekend was filled with traveling and work.  Friday I went down to Trenton, NJ with Chico to take a quick visit to his family.  The rest of the weekend I cozied up in Brooklyn, finally gaining the creative momentum to begin work on my Media Studies senior project, which in its present form exists as almost four pages of graphic narrative.  I'm really excited about the work now that I've jumped into it, and reading Voxers' fascinating questionnaires certainly invigorated my thoughts.  So many, many, thanks again to those who contributed.

Meanwhile, the muses of Youtube videos and musical doncations from online friends have been exceedingly rich.  Backdropping my work was a wide-array of tv episodes, from the bizarre Tom Goes to the Mayor (the video above is from an episode with Michael Ian Black...the best secret handshake in the world) and Wonder Schowzen to the competitively comedic Kenny vs. Spenny.  Meanwhile, my friend Analog P. opened my ears to Boards of Canada and rg sent over Regina Spektor's 'anti-folk' album, which I've been listening to on repeat since I got it.

So things are good.  The bittersweet oncoming of parting ways with school in the next month is very apparent.  I don't think I've ever taken so many candid photos of Chico and I with my cellphone.  Just mini mementoes, tiny faces to carry around with me, wherever I may go beyond graduation.

So things are great.

Fun with pixels and .tiff's!

inspriation from my meta-c, rg!