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Satori :: Koiban

Author: Aasemoon

13 Aug

Time for another ASM2010 favourite! =) I was previously informed that Satori was going to have a new demo for ASM, and I was waiting in anticipation to see it. When finally the demo showed up on the ASM TV stream, me and a bunch of friend, as expected, went “Whooohooohooow…. haaaaaaa….. aaaaaaaa…. woooooooo …. wooooohooooooooowwwwww …. hoooooo ….. waaaaaaaaa….” =D

I’m not going to say anything more. In fact I can’t, even if I want to. It’s completely impossible to describe something like this in words. So if you haven’t had a chance to see this super fantastic awesome demo yet, here it is. Check it out! =)

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Filed under: Amazing, Art, Demoscene, Digital Art, Kool, Music, Satori, Weeee =D

Happiness is Around the Bend

Author: Aasemoon

8 Aug

Oh yes, it certainly is! =)

It’s been yet another silent period due to my extreme lack of time, and what better reason to break this silence than to… well, LETS TALK ASD! =D The new ASD demo by the name “Happiness is Around the Bend” was released yesterday at the Assembly 2010 demo party. And early this morning I got the happy news that the demo has in fact won 1st place! =D YAAAAAAAAAAY!

I’ve been experiencing a bit of a mental struggle over which one of the ASD demos is my favourite, and it’s a tie between Life Force and Happiness. I finally decided to leave it at that. It’s just a tie. I can’t like either one of the 2 more than the other, and that’s just the way it’s going to be. =D Where Life Force made my heart explode out of my chest and brought tears to my eyes, Happiness made me jump around and throw my fists in the air. On one hand I think the 2 demos are too different to be able to make a comparison, on the other hand they’re too connected to make a comparison! It’s like they’re the 2 sides of the same coin… So, watch the new demo and decide for yourself. Winking smile

Oh, and… ehmmm…. well…. I just have got to say this since Soren mentioned something to me… [fair warning: brash opinionated remark following], in case you’ve been reading Pouet threads… don’t let certain comments about the music bias your opinion. aMUSiC and Leviathan have done an otherworldly beautiful job with the music. Big Kudos to them both. <3 <3 =)

Of course there were a few more demos in ASM this year that really took my breath away. I will post about them next…..

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Filed under: Amazing, Art, ASD, Beautiful, Coding, Demoscene, Digital Art, Graphics, Music, Weeee =D

Love Story :: Oscar Nominated Russian Short Film

Author: Aasemoon

11 May

This, I came across last week, on the FB items of one of my favourite musicians. It’s a lovely short film, with a beautiful message. I’ve been showing it to everyone so I decided I may as well post it here. =)

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Filed under: Amazing, Art, Cartoons, Motion Picture

The Nordic Fellows Comics

Author: Aasemoon

25 Apr

Last week, a Swedish friend of mine who is well aware of exactly how culture-curious I am, did me the huge favour of directing me to the deviantART gallery of a brilliant Danish comic artist. This artist has created a fictional character for each Scandinavian country, through which she depicts the popular stereotypical characteristics of the people and the culture of each of these countries. It’s of course quite satirical, and extremely funny.

In the past few days I’ve been going through this artist’s gallery, reading through all her comic strips, and I’ve had a great deal of laugh doing so. I highly recommend that you do the same. Here’s a more sophisticated version of her main characters:

From left to right: Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

Don’t you just love the look on Sweden’s face? =)) And apparently Finland’s character has quite a fan-club [and I totally want his hat!].=D Iceland has a parachute, that makes me jealous. Norway has cute hair and a huge fish. =)) Somehow the first thing I did, was sharing this with a Danish friend [xo] who’s apparently been sharing it with just about everyone in Scandinavia…. =D

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Filed under: Amazing, Art, Comics, Culture, Funny, Graphics

Current Listening :: Aleksi Eeben – Little Man Entered a Big Village

Author: Aasemoon

10 Apr

My latest musical discovery has been more of a re-discovery.

4AM in the morning of April 1st, for a rather long list of reasons I was still awake and trust me, this time around I was in fact quite tired. So I thought I’d relax to some nice music for a bit before the day officially started. I was about to serve myself up some Mike Oldfield [I had “Amarok” in mind!] when incidentally I noticed the news of a new release on the Kahvi Collective page. The EP called “Little Man Entered a Big Village”, is the latest by the Finnish electronic musician Aleksi Eeben. This was interesting news, seeing how I hadn’t listened to anything from this artist in a reeeeeally long while! A very long time ago I had come across a number of truly great tracks by the same artist under the alias “Heatbeat”, but since then somehow [unlike me, I know! =P] I had in fact lost track.

So, well, I downloaded the EP and began listening. It started with my head resting on the pile of papers on my desk. Then came the feeling of blood rushing into my brain.. then I found myself sitting straight and totally conscious… Then, of course, came the track “Linen & Linseed”, and I have to admit I’m glad none of you could actually see me at that point. Messy hair, googly eyes, mildly head banging to the track, in my PJs, 4AM in the morning. =D Needless to say I luuuuuuuvvvvvv the EP and even more so this track.

Of course then I went ahead and downloaded the artist’s entire set of available albums off of Bandcamp in FLAC [YAAAAAAAY yes it’s all available in FLAC]. And if you want to get your hands on what I’ve been loooooping in the past week, you can do the same HERE. Oh, and I really do mean looping. To say that I’ve gone completely nutz over “Linen & Linseed” would be an understatement. Check out my Last.fm profile if you don’t believe me. =D So, well, I really do suggest you check this out. =)

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Filed under: Amazing, Art, Music

Music @ Breakpoint 2010

Author: Aasemoon

8 Apr

Is it just me, or was the general quality of the music released at Breakpoint this year way above average? The streaming music compo included a great deal of awesome tracks, and many of the demos released in all categories featured superb soundtracks. So for someone with a serious case of [good] music addiction such as yours truly, this was a good chance to fuel up. =)

Here I’m just going to mention a few of my favourites, but really, I think you should just check out everything that was released. 😉

When the streaming music compo finished, my first thought was – “so much great music, how can anyone win this?”. Well, apparently someone did, and well deserved too: Check out Disrupt, fantastic DnB track by Puryx, the Danish demoscene/electronic musician. This guy produces a lot of great music, some of which is currently available on his Last.fm page.

Petarda by Chaser/Elude, and Sooner or Later by Little Birchard are also tracks that you should definitely check out. The entire collection of music released at Breakpoint 2010 can be downloaded from here.

As mentioned in my previous post, Vokawardoai by satori has a pretty awesome soundtrack… yeah I think I’ve gone on enough about that already. 😉 Then of course there’s Agenda Circling Forth by Fairlight & CNCD. Beautiful soundtrack, to go with the marvellous visuals.

In the 4K intro category, Retrospection by FRequency & Trolls In The Shadows is certainly one of the prettiest 4Kz that I’ve ever seen, with a really cool and upbeat soundtrack. I liked the soundtrack so much that I requested for a separate music file, and the guys in charge were kind enough to provide it. The soundtrack can be downloaded here, and below is the video.

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Filed under: Amazing, Art, Creativity, Demoscene, Digital Art, Music

Breakpoint 2010 :: SATORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!! =D

Author: Aasemoon

6 Apr

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.

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Filed under: Amazing, Art, Coding, Demoscene, Digital Art, Technology

Rust Mirror

Author: Aasemoon

17 Mar

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.