Digital Dream Machine

Donkey Kong Widget

chad — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:48:55 +0000

I went indoor climbing here at The Banff Centre on Tuesday. Something I haven’t done for many years. Had a great instructor and a great time overall. So, to keep with the climbing theme, here’s a video game widget featuring a plumber trying to rescue a woman from some big ape:

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RC Car Plays Super Mario Bros. Theme

chad — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:20:41 +0000

This video posted over on Boing Boing made me smile:http://view.break.com/487616 - Watch more free videos

Thanks to Cory at BoingBoing.net for the link.

More FiOS Awesomeness!

chad — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:02:12 +0000

An extended version of Michael Bay’s appearance in the Verizon FiOS commercial. Now with more Transformers awesomeness!

Thanks Nelson!

G.I. Joe Feature Film Snake-Eyes Revealed

chad — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:12:21 +0000

Here’s a photo of one of my favorite fictional comic book/toy characters, Snake-Eyes, the ninja commando for the G.I. Joe team as he will appear in the 2009 movie by Stephen Sommers (The Mummy/The Mummy Returns, Deep Rising):

Looks like his costume design was inspired by the 1985 version of the character and David Michael Beck’s 2001 painting:

Can’t wait to see Storm Shadow and the rest of film’s G.I. Joe characters!

As a treat, here’s a few Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow videos:

via: SuperHeroHype

A Piece of Photoshop History

chad — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:53:03 +0000

Here’s one of the earliest color icons for the graphics application Photoshop:

This image was pulled from The Abyss: Special Edition, which was one of the first major uses of the application developed by Thomas Knoll, and his brother John Knoll, a visual wizard at George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic. Photoshop 1.0 was released for the Apple Macintosh exclusively.

More on the history of Photoshop at Wikipedia.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Release Poster

chad — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:21:39 +0000

The new “payoff poster” by Drew Struzan for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was dug up today:

May 22, 2008 can’t arrive soon enough!

Make tracks to the official Indiana Jones website to check out the virtual museum of Indiana Jones movie posters.

Star Wars according to a 3 year old.

chad — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:35:39 +0000

Hahaha…funny stuff!

George Lucas couldn’t have summed it up better!

Computer Operating System Music

chad — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:21:40 +0000

Some nifty tunes made by others utilizing computer operating system sounds:

Mac OS X:

You can download the original GarageBand file and .m4a file at The Cleverist.

via swissmiss.

Windows 98/XP:

Despite being a ‘Mac’ guy, I actually like the tune composed using the Microsoft Windows sounds. There’s a little more depth to the tune. As a note of interest: Brian Eno composed the ubiquitous Windows 95 startup sound.

This Verizon FiOS commercial is “awesome!”

chad — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:35:27 +0000

Michael Bay is “awesome!”

Awesome!

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Trailer!

chad — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:20:09 +0000

I’ve already watched the new Indiana Jones trailer about 50 times this morning, and will probably watch it at least 50 more before the day is through. This is easily my favorite film series and Raiders of the Lost Ark is probably my favorite film of all time. I look forward to Indy’s new adventure and any others that may follow.

If you haven’t seen the new trailer yet, head over to the official Indiana Jones website and download your visual ticket to adventure!