Tsurukame – Hanasaki Ecological

Thank You Scientist

Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist is the gift that keeps on giving, and yesterday it introduced me to Thank You Scientist. This seven course dinner of a crossover prog rock band uses strings, saxophones, and brass to fill out their sound.

Source: Thank You Scientist via Spotify

Fire Your Representatives!

Serious time here for a minute. If you can legally vote in the US, it’s your responsibility to read about your ballot and vote in the mid-term elections on Tuesday, or you have no right to complain about the outcome.

Who is your House Representative? Did they participate in the budget stalemate that shut down the government for 16 days? Did they vote for CISPA, a cybersecurity bill that would have allowed the NSA to bypass existing privacy laws? If so, vote against them and fire them. This includes every Representative from Ohio except Tim Ryan.

UPDATE: Every House incumbent in Ohio got re-elected. It’s like the whole state rose up in unison and said “Government shutdowns? CISPA? Sounds good; do more of that.” Way to fail, Ohio.

The blog will return to its regular goofiness next week.

Source: My Ballot — Columbus Dispatch Voters Guide, Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, and a lot of searching; EFF helped; image from Wikipedia

Sungazer – Perihelion

I’m building a music multireddit to give me fresh music while I work, and it’s already finding good stuff! Sungazer makes the kind of electro jazz fusion that helps me concentrate. Will my multireddit continue to deliver? Repetition legitimises.

Source: Sungazer via a post on /r/ThankYouScientist

Plamoo - Mystery Stop Motion

What kind of blog about cool stuff from the Internet would be complete without Plamoo’s stop motion movies done with Japanese action figures? For the past few years, he’s been perfecting the art with unusually smooth animations, unpredictable action sequences, and wacky parodies.

Also worth mentioning is LUXE37, which is this idea done with die-cast toy cars.

Source: Niconico (was 003 謎のストップモーション / Mystery Stop Motion – YouTube) and 疾走の追跡(Miniature car chase) – YouTube.

Gashi Gashi – E-can

The animations on pixiv are just a series of PNGs animated in HTML5. Luckily, Gashi Gashi also posted a GIF of this on Tumblr, so I'd added that here. When Mega Man charges up a shot, he starts flashing, but everything else that's the same color as Mega Man flashes too.

UPDATE: Gashi Gashi posted this animation as a GIF on Tumblr, so it’s here now.

Source: 「Ｅ缶」/「ガしガし」のイラスト [pixiv] via pixiv每周排行 – 前50

Neon FM

Tokyo Attack came to Matsuricon again and introduced me to  Neon FM, a button-drumming music game with some neat features. If you fail a song, the game drops the difficulty level a little and lets you keep playing. The arcade, iOS, and Android versions all work about the same and even support online multiplayer matches between them. I want to try that sometime but the closest arcade with Neon FM is in the developer’s home town of Baltimore.

I thought Orange Lounge Radio had an interview with the developer, but the wiki had no mention of it. Maybe I've got it mixed up with the Kyle Ward interview in episode 596 where he talks about ReRave's arcade and mobile versions. I'm confused.

Source: Neon FM via Orange Lounge Radio episode 524 (1h59m in) which I had to look up again on the OLR Wiki

Shuey's Perfect Clear Study (Phase 2 - Sparta!)

A clean matrix is a happy matrix. In multiplayer Tetris, if you can perfectly clear all the blocks from your screen, it sends your opponent half a screen of garbage. Tetris art guru Shuey shows us that it’s possible to perfect clear with your first ten tetriminos every time. With clever usage of twists, the hold piece, and strategy, you can do it too!

Source: Shuey via Hard Drop via King of Stackers’s Discord chat

Did You Know Gaming? — Black & White

Last one before the video, I promise.

Source: ...and this one sources noctalis.

Black & White.

http://noctalis.com/dis/bw/eggs0.shtml  (This site is very slow)

Kawayoo

Kawayoo is a busy artist, and not just in drawing illustrations for art books and Pokémon cards. His electronic music puts me in the mood to write code. I’ve been working on adding a key config menu to Skeleton Hunter, and when it’s finished, I’ll tell you all about it.

It's been too long since this type of post. pixiv is just a fire hose of cool art. I could start browsing tags and artists and lose my entire afternoon there, so I don't check it like I used to.

Source: kawa/yoo found somewhere on pixiv last year

Toru Minegishi – Don't Slip

30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 4: Music from a console exclusive series From Splatoon 2 (Switch, July 21, 2017)

Splatoon 2 came out three years ago today? It’s still so fresh! I want more quirky, energetic rock like this.

Source: YouTube, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun