digital media wizard, hardcore gamer, lazy blogger, wannabe writer, aspiring photographer and all-round geek
Here’s Transistor, the next game we’re making at Supergiant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTik6sYT_BE
How very sad and true and funny this is!
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I strongly recommend you watch this deeply personal TEDTalk from game designer Jane McGonigal on how she overcame a severe depression and gained more years… http://on.ted.com/t3kK
Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPleanwithit
Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes & hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a photo announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.
This weekend’s tag was #WHPleanwithit, which asked participants to capture photographs of people standing next to and leaning in the same direction as unique or oddly shaped trees. Every Monday we feature some of our favorite submissions from the project, but be sure to check out the rest here.
City lights. #london #hampsteadheath #trees #cityscape #lights #city #dusk #snapseed
One of my favourite views in all of London
Have an awesome Saturday friends. Stick this one in your armoury. “If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you”.
I was watching an old Danish comedy-show the other day. One of the sketches involves two well-off connoisseur discussing fine cuisine and that “you shouldn’t be afraid of spices!”
There is some deep truth in that. Don’t be afraid of spices when it comes to gastronomic endeavors. Or life in general.
You think about that for moment.
Have you noticed how no one seems to keep a diary these days? Not a diary for keeping tabs on when to pick up your shirt from the laundry, when to meet with whats-her-face from the bank and so on. No, I mean a proper one! You know, one where you write about what you had for dinner, how your brother/sister/boss/neighbor is an unbelievable pain in the butt, how your parents/wife/husband/dog/cat are being soooo unreasonable, how no one understands you, how that guy or that girl is so unbelievable dreamy and how totally unfair it is that he or she never ever looks at you and so on.
Who actually keeps a diary like that these days? People keep blogs now instead but a blog not a diary because a blog is online. And if it’s online, it can be found by others and if it can be found by others it can be shared, commented on and judged by others…and diaries are not meant to be shared or judged!
That’s because a diary is a place for all things irrational. Its a place to share you fears, your thoughts, your concerns, your failures, your losses and your victories with a silent friend and then read years later by you! Rational or not, big deals or small. Doesn’t matter. A blog just can’t do that.
That is why you hid diaries under the bed, why you always had on with a lock and why you always kept the key for that lock hidden behind the loose wooden board in the wall by the window…or was that just me?
Yes, I used to keep a diary. Several in fact and even had one with a lock. I miss that. It was a long time ago but it was at a point in my life where I really needed somewhere to simply unload without having the load judged or commented on or me being told I was being silly or stupid or irrational. That is the whole point of unloading right there. You just dump it. No needs for comments or opinions because that won’t help you. And a small simple notebook was the perfect place to do so. Still is actually.
I still have some of those diaries around somewhere. At least I think I do. Would be good fun to look through them now nearly a decade later. I imagine it would be an equal mix of head-shaking and surprise at how surprisingly deep and profound one can be when writing things for your own eyes only.
I’ll let you know if I find them.
Cyber bullying…
this is how it feels everytime I walk into a Starbucks with my battered old PC laptop
(via Scope)
This is me all the time.
I CAN’T EVEN HANDLE THAT WALK
This pretty perfectly sums up conventions.
Using the Force!
I’m a big fan of anime so I got quite excited when I found this comprehensive guide to the best of anime. This gives plenty of inspiration to newcomers and the more experienced viewer. Some real quality titles here from sci-fi classics Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Neon Genesis Evangelion to the more quirkier ones like Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Tekkon Kinkreet. I’m just surprised why other worthwhile titles like Appleseed and Ninja Scroll didn’t make the list.
2012 was a year very much unlike any other. Lots of good stuff happened and some bad stuff too. And then there was the unexpected stuff which turned the world completely upside down like me getting an offer I couldn’t refuse; a job as a producer with a Danish game-developer.
This offer marked the beginning of a new and exciting journey that I am very much looking forward to. I have already taken the first steps yet even as I do so, I cannot help but to look back at another journey that came to an end so that this one might begin.
That journey was an exciting one and one that has changed me in ways that are both deep and profound yet find hard to describe. So rather then to try and put the impossible to words, I thought it best to simply write down some of the many beautiful memories I have of living in the greatest city in the world for eight years and to cherish them forever as I make my way down the ever winding road in the next chapter of this great adventure called Life:
And so many more…
Somebody did a funny restrospective “to do” list for 2012 and judging by the things crossed out he or she had an eventful year. On closer inspection I can see I’ve done a few myself (not saying which). Glad to say I didn’t do all of them though :)
Cross off what you’ve done:
- Gotten a new piercing.
Dyed my hair.Ended a relationship.Started a new relationship.Been on a long car/bus journeyPassed an exam.Met someone who’s now an important part of my life.- Cried on someone’s shoulder.
Had a massive fight with a boy/girl.Received flowers.- Had a Valentine.
- Written a letter using pen & paper.
- Gone to see a therapist
Been prescribed medication by a doctor.- Read a really good book.
- Gone to the zoo
.Spent too much money on unnecessary things.Traveled by train.Cried over a member of the opposite sex.Spent the day out in the sun getting a tanSlammed a door out of frustration.Had an anxiety attack.- Babysat for a friend’s child.
- Had a BBQ
- Gone to the fair.
- Gone bowling.
Seen a film at the cinema in 3D.- Gone on a date.
Been the only sober one on a night out.- Helped someone home after they had been drinking.
Stayed up all night.Talked on the phone for over two hours.Supported someone who’d received bad news.Watched some kind of live sporting event.- Read an entire book in one day.
- Bought a DVD the day it was released.
- Eaten McDonald’s more than four times in a single week.
- Cried as a result of exam stress.
Met some incredible new people.- Gone to great parties.
- Fallen backwards off a chair.
- Broken my glasses.
- Worn a watch for the first time in years.
Cried over someone in my past.Spent hours aimlessly browsing the internet.Thrown up.Cried over a film.Gone out of my way to avoid an ex-boy/girlfriend.- Fought with someone in public.
Been in a relationship for a year or longer.Cried in front of someone I adore.- Lost one of my closest friends.
I have a bit of a scatter brain so to keep my mind organised (and my sanity intact) I write a lot of “to-do” lists. Enter Wunderlist, this amazing cloud-based organizer that used to let me write all the “to do’s” I wanted, organize them into lists and then have them all sync up so I could access them from web, tablet or mobile. I say “used to” because Wunderlist isn’t as “wunder” as it used to be after they released Wunderlist 2. Some recently added tasks are simply not there anymore, and nothing syncs up. When they do, Wunderlist insists on showing me tasks that I already completed… last year! Not only that but the app itself doesn’t support landscape view making it pretty much useless on tablets which is where I tend to use it the most, like when you are in a meeting and quickly need to type down some action points.
I fail to see why anyone thought launching such a big update a few days before Christmas would be a good idea much less releasing a sub-par app that ditches horizontal for tablets, making it damn near unusable. Wunderlist have said that landscape mode will return in a future update but then why on Earth would you release it in the first place? You would’nt get away with releasing something like that on iPad so why do you think you can get away with it on Android?
It’s all these things combined that means I am now very close to ditching Wunderlist all together and go back to using Astrid which seems to have improved drastically while I was “away”. Not an easy decision because I used to consider Wunderlist one of my key apps, right there on the top of the list with Evernote.