Julie Alice Chappell, hailing from Portsmouth, UK, creates these intricate insect sculptures from re-purposed computers and video game machines. The parts often come from local dumps, many friends, and organizations that support her work.
Via the artist:
“Whilst watching a nature programme about bio-diversity, one eye on the box of circuit boards, one on the TV, and worrying about my looming major project, I was reminded of the ants in the cupboard and my Eureka moment arrived.
I proceeded to create a museum style entomologist’s cabinet of dioramas, drawers and trays filled with pinned bugs and butterflies. The collection has continued to grow in size and complexity and is constantly evolving as new inspiration is triggered by new finds.”
If you are interested, she sells her work online via Etsy (usually ranging between $100 and $200).
“Europe in 8 Bits” is a new full-length documentary directed by Javier Polo that explores the world of chip music, a genre of electronic music made from old video game and computer hardware. Instead of guitars, drums, and bass you will find that these musicians wield Game Boys, Nintendo systems, Ataris, Amiga and Commodore 64s.
If you’re in the mood for some 1980’s nostalgia, you can watch the movie right now at Vimeo for $3. I think it looks awesome.
In case you didn’t know, a guillotine is a French execution device consisting of an angled metal blade that falls on your neck and chops your head off. For the first time, you can experience what this might be like using the most state-of-the-art virtual reality headset called Oculus Rift. The Guillotine Simulator is appropriately named Disunion.
The idea is that you can look around at the blade, the crowd of onlookers cheering on your death, and then when the executioner gives the signal, the blade is dropped, and your head rolls to the floor. The experience is enhanced by having a friend briskly chop your neck at the moment of impact.
I would love to give this a try.
Interesting note:
“During the span of its usage, the French guillotine has gone by many names, some of which include these:
La Monte-à-regret (The Regretful Climb)
Le Rasoir National (The National Razor)
Le Vasistas or La Lucarne (The Fanlight)
La Veuve (The Widow)
Le Moulin à Silence (The Silent Mill)
Louisette or Louison (from the name of prototype designer Antoine Louis)
Madame La Guillotine
Mirabelle (from the name of Mirabeau)
La Bécane (The Machine)
Le Massicot (The Cutter)
La Cravate à Capet (The Necktie of Capet, Capet being Louis XVI)
La Raccourcisseuse Patriotique (The Patriotic Shortener)
La demi-lune (The Half-Moon)
Les Bois de Justice (Wooden Justice)
La Bascule à Charlot (Charlot’s Rocking-chair)
Le Prix Goncourt des Assassins (The Goncourt Prize for Murderers)
In other countries, it was called by other names:
the Halifax Gibbet (England)
the Scottish Maiden (Scotland)
Fallbeil (Germany)”
“The Machine” and “Wooden Justice” are pretty good.
In 1978, Space Invaders ushered in the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Shortly after its release, you could find coin-operated machines pretty much everywhere — grocery stores, restaurants, bars, movie theaters. But in the smart phone era, there isn’t much room for this type of gaming. buy eriacta online https://www.calmandgentledentalcare.co.uk/wp-content/languages/en/eriacta.html no prescription
You can easily pull up Angry Birds, Temple Run, and even Space Invaders on your phone and play them instantly, for free.
So I guess acting on a bit of nostalgia for gaming of the past, I decided to create this replica of the original Space Invaders Arcade Cabinet. I attempted to keep the design as close as possible to the 1978 U.S. release.
Here’s a summary of the gameplay in case you’re not familiar:
“Space Invaders is a two-dimensional fixed shooter game in which the player controls a laser cannon by moving it horizontally across the bottom of the screen and firing at descending aliens. The aim is to defeat five rows of eleven aliens—some versions feature different numbers—that move horizontally back and forth across the screen as they advance towards the bottom of the screen. buy levaquin online https://www.calmandgentledentalcare.co.uk/wp-content/languages/en/levaquin.html no prescription
As more aliens are defeated, the aliens’ movement and the game’s music both speed up. Defeating the aliens brings another wave that is more difficult, a loop which can continue indefinitely.”
Space Invaders was recently chosen by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as one of 40 that the curators wished to add to the museum’s collection in the future. This has sparked some debate about whether video games are actually art, and Paola Antonelli, senior curator for the museum’s department of architecture and design, was quoted on the subject:
“Frankly, I am not interested at all in the discussion about video games or even chairs being art. I find design one of the highest form of human creative expression and when something has great design that is more than enough.”
Surgeon Simulator 2013 was created in less than 48 hours for the Global Game Jam last weekend, and it has since become an internet sensation. YouTube user and “depressed chef” Robbaz hilariously demonstrates some of the gameplay in the video above. The keyboard controls are based on the old track simulator QWOP, which is almost impossible to master. Each finger of the surgeon’s hand is controlled individually by the player, and if that wasn’t hard enough, moving the arm and hand around require a completely different set of controls. buy sinequan online https://www.conci.com/wp-content/languages/en/sinequan.html no prescription
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Bossa Studios plans to release a longer version which may include features like “emergency surgery in the back of an ambulance; more procedures, such as a brain transplant; more tools; and achievements, like performing a heart transplant using only a shard of glass.”
Crysis 3 is a futuristic first-person shooter from the German video game company Crytek that’s set to be released this coming February 2013 for the XBOX 360. In this third game in the series, Prophet returns to New York City and finds an urban rainforest teeming with overgrown trees, dense swamplands and raging rivers. If you watch the video above, you’ll see the exhaustive level of detail the designers put into the environment. buy professional pack viagra online https://www.sanjeevanam.com/products/wp-content/languages/new/professional-pack-viagra.html no prescription
