Oh my God…. I know I’m about to sound like a bloody fan girl, but honestly I could care even less. =)) I’m usually pretty excited + energetic + happy + LOUD about the things that I’m truly enthusiastic about, and that’s just the way it is. And I like it this way, as it brings me success… anyway….
I luuuuuuuvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv Satori’s demos. So much that I actually check their Pouet page every month or so just to see if they have anything new, even though they hadn’t released anything since 2007. They were one of the very first groups I came to know, and they’re among my top 3 favourite demo groups of all time, and I have a LOT of favourites so… you get the picture. =)
I was beginning to lose hope of seeing new demos from Satori since they hadn’t released anything in such a long while. And that would have been such a shame. So you can imagine the depth of my WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW when I saw their name pop up on my screen today, as I was watching the demo compo on Breakpoint TV. =) And oh wow, they SO did not disappoint! The demo is a true artistic masterpiece.
What’s interesting is that the Satori demos are like NO other demos. What I mean is, many of the really nice demos that I have seen, have certain elements in common. I’m not saying they look in any way the same, but they have some very basic similarities in their effects, design and direction. But Satori’s demos never have anything in common with anything else out there. They stand out completely, and the totally rule. Same was the case with their BP release. And hey, this one happens to be even better than their own previous demos. All I can say now is that I hope they don’t stop…..
Below is the video recording of the demo. But I suggest you download the actual demo to enjoy the full experience of it.
So what just happened to that? I’ve noticed that since about 2 weeks ago, suddenly Last.fm has decided to show very low compatibility between me and people who listen to a lot of the same as me… people who used to have near 100% compatibility with me. I think they’ve managed to break something. =P And yes I sort of care because it’s a good way of discovering music I may like. This service truly is on a downward spiral… meh.
Whoa! To say that I’m impressed would be a total understatement! Sony just hit us with one of the biggest design surprises of the decade. This limited edition VAIO is in fact, well, ROUND!
I have to admit, even though I recently bought myself a pretty amazing VAIO, I’m still quite seriously tempted to purchase one of these. Check it out!
Here’s another serious competitor for ASIMO. I just came across this article on IEEE Spectrum and was pretty amazed by how natural some of this robot’s moves are. And it actually looks pretty neat too! The wrist + finger movements / control impressed me the most.
Norooz…. it’s here again. =) Time goes by fast, doesn’t it? Well, I have to admit, it’s been a very interesting year. A lot of interesting events happened this year, in many various contexts and directions. And from what I see right now, the coming year is probably going to be even more adventurous. Some crazy things are in the making, lets just say that for now. 😉
Tomorrow at 1:35 PM Toronto time, 6:35 PM Zurich time, and 9:05 PM Tehran time, the Persian year 2569 [1389] starts. Happy Norooz everyone, and wish you all a fantastic new year. =)
Oh my world… it this amazing or what? Superb work of art created by “Daniel Rozin”, an artist who’s art responds to the people viewing the art. More info here. Thanks to this guy for the link.
And I am not the least bit surprised. After all, we all saw this coming… didn’t we.
About a year ago I came across Evri. After I played around with it a bit and did some inspection, I realized it was simply not interesting. It doesn’t do anything special that hasn’t already been covered by another 10,000 more complete and useful services out there.
With everything that went down with Twine in the past year, it was predicted by a lot of people that I spoke with, that Twine.com had pretty much always been for sale, if you catch my drift. The only thing is, I guess a part of me was always hoping that some big cool company would come along and acquire Twine, and perhaps that way Twine would finally be made into what it was originally supposed to be [or at least what the pitch was!].
Well, the Radar Networks finally got bought today. Twine.com finally got owned today, and as a result we now have a combination of 2 completely lame projects. On one hand I find this very disappointing. On the other hand, I find it very laughable. =P What I find even more amusing, is the little “Evri + Twine” logo that they’ve stuck on the top of the Twine pages. It looks to me like it’s saying “here’s how you know we have successfully made a bloody mess of things”.
I can not believe where Twine started, and where it is now, truly and finally, ending….
A few months ago, a neighbour’s cat walked right into my bedroom when I opened the flat door to come in. After inspecting my bedroom for a bit, he found himself a comfy place on a mini table under my window, and that was that. The cat didn’t seem to want to go out! =) I tried picking him up and putting him on the floor and leading him to the door, but he just turned around and went right back to where he was. Then I sat down and started doing some work on my notebook, and the cat would just circle around my chair and rub his fur to my feet. =)) Any attempts of getting him to get out was completely unsuccessful. Until finally after about an hour of playing around in my bedroom, he finally “accepted” to go back home.
If you know anything about raccoons, you probably know that they never let you get close to them. They raid people’s backyards and if one of them finds its way to your kitchen, you should probably say goodbye to any food you had in there. =) And they seem to detect human presence from kilometres away, ’cause the only thing you get to see of them is their cute behinds jumping up and down running away from you with the speed of light. =) And then, once when I was sitting under the rain, in my aunt’s backyard, I noticed one of these cute creatures slowly walking towards me… I was expecting it to just turn around and go away at some point, but that didn’t happen. It walked right to the spot where I was sitting, and then it climbed up my jeans all the way to my knee, so that it’s eyes were looking directly into mine. It was extremely odd! I even petted the raccoon’s back a bit. So it was just sitting there on my knee for some minutes.. I don’t even know how long. And then it decided to leave….. it was a very cute encounter. =)
Yesterday, I noticed that a couple of pigeons were in the balcony again… up to some mischief. I love them really, but they make a bloody mess in the balcony that seeing how I’m on the 23rd floor, is slightly difficult to get cleaned. 😉 Anyway, I knocked a few times on the glass door to the balcony… quite certain that they would be scared and leave. Well, that didn’t happen! So I stepped in the balcony, excepting them to fly away any second now. That didn’t happen either. At some point, I found myself face to face with the pigeons… close enough that I could see all the shiny pretty colours in their eyes. And I was laughing my head off too, seeing how they were just.. standing there watching me! =D So at the end I gave up… and walked back in…. it’s as if they knew the threat was simply non-exiting! =P I swear, one of them was totally giving me the “yeah, right” look! =)))))
And these are just a few….. so… what is it with animals and me anyway? Any theories? =)))
Hey, I'm Aasemoon, and this is my blog which has been around since 1998. Childhood toy project that ended up growing up with me.
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