More Interactive Flash Narratives

Fantastic games made by Fasco. The following links take you straight to the games...
Crimson Room
Viridian Room
Picomaru
White Chamber


P.S. The walkthrough for White Chamber, which I had to use!!

Playing: Playstation 2 - Buzz

Porcupine Tree + Anathema

Last Monday the 10th I saw the titled bands at Rock City, Notts. The first band; Anathema were not my sort of band, but they played well and seem to have quite a large amount of fans. Porcupine Tree were really good though, they put on a great show and sounded great. I took my camera, I took some really rubbish shots and only now just got round to uploading them. Enjoy!

Anathema:




Porcupine Tree:





Music: ...And You Shall Know Them By The Trail of Dead - Sigh Your Children

Student Pads (1)

This is my first piece of work for Trent TVs program; student pads.




Music: Genesis: Back In NYC

War of the Worlds

Tonight, my last night in Nottingham for a few weeks and I saw The War of the Worlds at the Ice Arena.
I can summarize the show in one sentence... room for improvement.
A shame because it's such a classic show. The problem is they haven't tried to catch up with/use today's 3D technology. Their images to me seemed quite primitive. Also the sound quality of the show was really nasty. Their voices were either too quiet and pumped full of treble or too loud and still with a lot of treble.
However, the music was fantastic. Well-written (apparently by the Moody Blues!) and exciting to watch because they involved both classical and modern rock instruments. The stage was split into two; one half had a full orchestra (I counted over 30 violins alone); and the other side of the stage had a rock band and what could've been Peter Gabriel's backing band!

The website for details.


Music: (in my head) The man that plays the blues guitar near market square

My Christmas List

Mindscape
House Of Leaves
JPOD
D-Tonate & D-Fuse
OneDotZero
Jo Jo In The Stars
Jacques Druin
Dad's Dead
Berlin Film Festival
The Piano Tuner of Earthquake
British Films

Heima - Sigur Rós

Fantastic!
The music was incredible throughout.
The images were perfect for the music and stay in my mind.
I'm feel very inspired to do something like that myself (the music; there's no way I can achieve the same visuals), but it's not easy to do this, so it's something to work on when I go back home.
If you get a chance to watch it DO NOT miss out!!




http://www.heima.co.uk/
http://www.heimafilm.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heima

p.s. i just noticed on wikipedia that it was released on my birthday :D


Music: Jeff Buckley - We All Fall In Love Sometimes (Elton John cover Live on The Music Faucet WFMU 1992)

Narrative Stage 3: Learn The Drums (Completed)

Learn The Drums by ~Jragon86 on deviantART

Narrative Stage 3 - Learn Tha Drums

Almost finished, will be finished tonight. Just couldn't wait to upload...

Icarus Ascends

There's a needless window in my room that's oposite my bed and in the mornings the sun is reflected from the opposite building through the window into my room and straight to my face.
So my first solution was to buy a piece of material (preferably tie-dye) that would hang to cover the whole window, so when the sun does shine through it's a much nicer sight.
Getting a piece of material that a. I liked and b. wasn't expensive proved to be quite difficult. So this week I had another idea.
I've painted what I intended to be psychedlic colours onto a sketch pad using watercolour paint. The first two of four are now complete and I will have the other two finished by the end of next week. It's just ashame I won't be here to enjoy my new paintings...



11/12/07 Update:
Pictures taken at 10.30am this morning, to show how the beautiful colours shine through...





Television: Nathan Barley - Episode 6

Narrative Stage 3

Done!
Yep I've finished it already, which I can't quite believe.
I think it's a good piece too if I don't say so myself.
I'll upload it here as soon as I have somewhere to host it.
But that's it now, I just need to present it all on Tuesday!


Music: 10cc - I Bought A Flat Guitar Tutor

Theo Travis Quartet

Yes.
This was a wonderful gig!
I went with Alex and Hannah from the Musician Society to the Bonnington Theatre in Arnold.
They played two sets with songs mostly off the new album, combining a range of styes; Jazz, Blues, Rock and all of which filled with a lush atmosphere from various effect pedals.
They also made tribute by playing their own version of a song by the brilliant Syd Barret called See Emily Play.
And I was really looking forward to seeing him because he's played and recorded with some incredible musicians; Robert Fripp, David Sylvian, Porcupine Tree, John Etheridge - to name but a few - and I wan't disappointed. It's ashame my flat mates woke me up at 3am this morning though, I couldn't get back to sleep. Otherwise I might not have nodded off during the more atmospheric moments tonight.


Music: Theo Travis - The Relegation of Pluto

Idea for Narrative Stage 3

A very basic flash drum kit using a picture of a real drum kit in the Byron Lecture Theatre
Whenever a specific part of the drum kit is selected to play a hand will appear and "play it".
I will gather sounds from the royalty free samples Apple Loops provide.

Resources:
http://www.kenbrashear.com/
http://ababasoft.com/music/drum_machine.html
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/56809
http://www.pearldrum.com/dreamkit/
http://ababasoft.com/music/drums01.htm
http://www.buckle.com/static/bscene/games/drums/drums.html


Music: Erik Satie - Pieces froides: Trois airs a faire fuir

Interactive Narrative Stage 3: MOAN!!

In this assignment i've been asked to "update my Online Journal regularly, to reflect my progress and engagement with this assignment task". Well the latest is I have less than a week in the total 2 weeks we were given and I still don't have any ideas!!!
Thus my conclusion: this assignment is bullshit!

Reference Sources:
http://magnoliathemovie.com
http://lab.constellations.co.nz
http://pulledhair.com
http://www.newgrounds.com/

Tutorials:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscrpit_tutorial/
VLP > Learning Room > Software Tutorials > Animating in Flash / Adobe Flash CS3

Sam Winston in Lecture

Last Wednesday 28th November I sat in on a lecture directed mainly to Graphic or Fine Art students, but the e-mail I got was to all Art and Design students.
The lecture was given by a young new artist called Sam Winston who has written a book called A Dictionary Story, which is a fantastic idea along the lines (no pun intended) of: if the dictionary contains every single word there is, then why can't it tell every single story.

He's very talented and you should check out his work!

A Little Bit of Home In Nottingham

I found this CD today in a second hand vintage shop of Mansfield Road.
I have this album. They're a local band that are doing really well for themselves at the moment.
One song from the album even got played by John Peel!

Metal !!!

MESHUGGAH !



Update:
"WOAH!!" Some might say...
I've just realised that this post was my 33rd post!
33
33
33
......creepy!

Heima !!!

Spotted the poster in Broadway Cinema on Thursday...



See the website or the photoblog, which has very nice music.

Connect 4 - Completed Final Version!

It's here, it's done and i'm very pleased with it!
So much so that here is a still:

And the completed final version...