Update... and LINKS!
OK, After getting to Washington, things have been a fair bit better.
I've still not found work, which is getting to be sort of worrisome. And if I'm being honest, I've not been making the absolute best use of my time in that regard. Evidence? I pirated WoW (World of Warcraft, for those of you who aren't close friends with the internet.) and started playing it. Sort of. I mean, not really. I've got a level 10 character, and I'm already losing momentum.
What Wow did for me, mostly, is reawaken my yen for quality machinima. If you're not familiar with that term, then I don't blame you. It's an art form with a fairly hefty limitation, and by and large, no mainstream recognition. Machinima is films made using footage from video games. Mostly, this is done with multiplayer games, using one player as the "camera," but other iterations are possible, especially when the games in question are things like The Sims, which have embraced the art form so thouroughly that a recent episode of nationally aired television show was shot entirely in The Sims 3.
Want a good example of machinima? Try the first real big one, Red Vs. Blue, made with Halo, and later, with Halo 2. Probobly it's now made with Halo 67, but I don't really pay attention to that franchise.
So anyways, I'm poking around the WoW machinima community sites, and somehow, I end up linking to this song, entitled "The Device Has Been Modified," by Victims of Science. ("Wait!" I hear all the real gamers shout. "The device has been modified to what? Is it 'shoot two portals?'" Why yes, yes it is. And it is now worth more than the combined salaries of every person in INSERT SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE)
TDHBM is a musical remix of GLaDOS's clips from Portal. It's not timely, I know. We were all over Portal a year ago, but now? It's, you know, in the past, right? Well, no. It's not. It's installed on this computer. And it's installed on damned near every computer I've had more than two hours contact with in the past couple of years. And it's worth remembering, and revisiting. And besides all of that, what we're really talking about here isn't Portal, damn it, it's art (not that Portal isn't art, I mean, it's art, with turrets even, but not the art we're technically talking about).
Wondering why no instance of the name of the song is a link? That's because of the aforementioned machinima. Some brilliant person hacked the ASHPD (Aperture Science Hand-held Portal Device) into WoW, as well as a pirate hat with the Aperture Science logo on it, and made a kickass video. This makes for two awesome songs associated with Portal (did you think it was three songs? well, you were wrong. The secret one hidden in the sound files and never played during the game doesn't count). Victims of Science seem not to have much in the way of web presence, unlike Mr. Jonathan Coulton, who wrote the aforementioned other kickass song, along with about thirty million non-Portal-related kickass songs.
I'm not feeling like a graceful end to this post. So perhaps I'll end it with this: link, bitches.
I've still not found work, which is getting to be sort of worrisome. And if I'm being honest, I've not been making the absolute best use of my time in that regard. Evidence? I pirated WoW (World of Warcraft, for those of you who aren't close friends with the internet.) and started playing it. Sort of. I mean, not really. I've got a level 10 character, and I'm already losing momentum.
What Wow did for me, mostly, is reawaken my yen for quality machinima. If you're not familiar with that term, then I don't blame you. It's an art form with a fairly hefty limitation, and by and large, no mainstream recognition. Machinima is films made using footage from video games. Mostly, this is done with multiplayer games, using one player as the "camera," but other iterations are possible, especially when the games in question are things like The Sims, which have embraced the art form so thouroughly that a recent episode of nationally aired television show was shot entirely in The Sims 3.
Want a good example of machinima? Try the first real big one, Red Vs. Blue, made with Halo, and later, with Halo 2. Probobly it's now made with Halo 67, but I don't really pay attention to that franchise.
So anyways, I'm poking around the WoW machinima community sites, and somehow, I end up linking to this song, entitled "The Device Has Been Modified," by Victims of Science. ("Wait!" I hear all the real gamers shout. "The device has been modified to what? Is it 'shoot two portals?'" Why yes, yes it is. And it is now worth more than the combined salaries of every person in INSERT SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE)
TDHBM is a musical remix of GLaDOS's clips from Portal. It's not timely, I know. We were all over Portal a year ago, but now? It's, you know, in the past, right? Well, no. It's not. It's installed on this computer. And it's installed on damned near every computer I've had more than two hours contact with in the past couple of years. And it's worth remembering, and revisiting. And besides all of that, what we're really talking about here isn't Portal, damn it, it's art (not that Portal isn't art, I mean, it's art, with turrets even, but not the art we're technically talking about).
Wondering why no instance of the name of the song is a link? That's because of the aforementioned machinima. Some brilliant person hacked the ASHPD (Aperture Science Hand-held Portal Device) into WoW, as well as a pirate hat with the Aperture Science logo on it, and made a kickass video. This makes for two awesome songs associated with Portal (did you think it was three songs? well, you were wrong. The secret one hidden in the sound files and never played during the game doesn't count). Victims of Science seem not to have much in the way of web presence, unlike Mr. Jonathan Coulton, who wrote the aforementioned other kickass song, along with about thirty million non-Portal-related kickass songs.
I'm not feeling like a graceful end to this post. So perhaps I'll end it with this: link, bitches.