Richard Alexander Hall

Archive for July, 2008

I’ve mentioned this electric sheep screen saver. Here’s one mpg from it.

I may find a way to batch convert them and incorporate them into the blog design. That won’t make it impossible for you to read.. Click either “play now” or “play in popup” to see it. If either of those don’t work, click the download link and have a look at it in Windows Media Player.

The screen saver has downloaded a bajillion of these goodies into its cache on my machine. Eye candy. I think this one is morphing between four different “sheep” IDs.

Referring to the previous entry, good luck with the truth anyway if the internets are against you.

Wow.  Bizarre twists on meaning become dominant and obliterate everything else.

(Except for one brilliant article pointed it out, and I’m posting about it, and you’re reading it.  Maybe it is always free or bound to be free.)

Ah ha ha!

“The truth will make us strong.”

I’m waiting for more.  Please.  Feed me another verse.  I’ll start compiling it into a Windows Bible.  Not that there isn’t at least one already.

Here is a script for something I’m going to shoot soon – my son will star.

My brother found (or passed along) this disturbing scream of a business someone did with the Showbiz Pizza Characters.

Warning: PG-13. Perfectly shames the source material without losing much for the dignity of the characters made to sing it.

LOVE IN THIS CLUB from ( *_* ) on Vimeo.

I ran across this today and tried it – so worth it.

It’s a screen-saver that does mutating, “genetic” computer-generated animated art for your screen-saver, and distributes these across the internet to everyone else who has the screen-saver installed, and users can vote for or against the various “electric sheep” (up arrow key votes yes, down votes no) so that cooler ones get promoted.  I took the following image from the sites gallery of current images (which fluctuates – they render new “sheep” images from user’s machines during idle time/bandwidth) and scaled it up – it’s a desktop now.

This is a link to the image because the thumbnail isn’t working for some reason.

I love that MATRIX screen-saver I found and will probably go back to it from time to time.  Meanwhile, this.

Perusing the blog of a friend’s friend with Flikr photographs of posters in a WWII museum led me to look for this treasure – man, I love this.

http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-422:1

There’s a larger archive of them at that domain.  I was moved by this one displaying a painting and poem, An Open Letter to the Unconquerable Greeks.  And intrigued by this one.  I haven’t perused the tenth of these posters probably.

Where has the world gone that gave so much place for posters like this?  Nowadays so much of it is nay, nay, America the evil, the guilty, and crazy delusions that we should do things like give our enemies the right of American citizen trials.  Uh.. they aren’t American citizens, and they kinda want to destroy our country?

And about that last poster, are folks careful about what they write in war time anymore?  Not so many any more, and not so much.

Made by the folks at Ninjabee. I did sound and particle effects work for the promoted game.