Jed's Poem (Beautiful Ground) is a pretty nice song. Sweet. Subtle. Poetic. But this video tops it off. Appropriately using a computer for this video; so fitting to the sounds of the song. The creator of this video was made it as a fan, and the band Granddaddy liked it so much they adopted it as an official video.
That's beautiful.
The computer is timed perfectly with the music, which seems like it would have been difficult to accomplish... many lines of C++ something or another. The poetry moves on the screen like something from e. e. cummings.
Here's the video.
Monday, May 14, 2007
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Another World video game
Also titled Out of this World, Another World was one of my childhood favorites. Extremely difficult game to complete, but addicting non-the-less, your goal is to survive and escape this "other world" of aliens, creatures, and scary disintegration laser guns.
This isn't your average platform game. For one, it's so difficult, you are guaranteed to die countless number of times, in every stage of the game. You have to die, in order to learn what not to do, where not to go, and to perfect your timing.
The animation also sets this game apart. The 2d animation, created by Eric Chahi, was so ahead of it's time, people still rave about the game today, almost 15 years later.
But what makes the game especially beautiful, in my opinion, is the story. You team up with an alien fugitive, and with no more communication than simple gestures, you work together to escape a hostile land.
Here is the entire game from start to end. I think it would make a great big-screen action movie. I wonder who would play the ginger hero?
And for those of you who speak French, here is the 'making of' interview with Eric Chahi in 1993.
This isn't your average platform game. For one, it's so difficult, you are guaranteed to die countless number of times, in every stage of the game. You have to die, in order to learn what not to do, where not to go, and to perfect your timing.
The animation also sets this game apart. The 2d animation, created by Eric Chahi, was so ahead of it's time, people still rave about the game today, almost 15 years later.
But what makes the game especially beautiful, in my opinion, is the story. You team up with an alien fugitive, and with no more communication than simple gestures, you work together to escape a hostile land.
Here is the entire game from start to end. I think it would make a great big-screen action movie. I wonder who would play the ginger hero?
And for those of you who speak French, here is the 'making of' interview with Eric Chahi in 1993.
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