Lighting effects have come a long way – especially with new color LED setups. Enter Halo lights by Mandalaki. They can create a variety of really interesting lighting effects.
However, at an astronomical $1000+ for one of these lights, one has to wonder if you could do a lot better on a good projector. Still, it’s interesting to see what design houses are coming up with – once you get past the somewhat insufferable product claims.
Genevra Collier (aka tragopandemonium) created an incredible outfit that turned her into a human lava lamp.
Motion designer Chris Lavelle created this short fractal animation Creation 1. It has a disturbing quality, especially for those who suffer from trypophobia
Though, personally, I think it looks more like a close-up of the iris of the average human eye…
One of my favorite pastimes is reading and listening to classic spooky stories. There’s no better time for curling up with a spooky story than a cold, fall evening in front of the fire.
Here’s a collection of my all-time favorite scary stories by the best readers I could find:
Scary-comedy
This is a unique group – and old stories of this genre are very heavy on dry British/deadpan humor and often require a little bit of understanding of the times in 1800’s England. I highly recommend.
Plays/Dramatizations
Good general scary classics channels on YouTube:
Books
Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories – Michael Cox, R.A. Gilbert
Playlists:
Honorable mentions/others:
Links:
Poor person’s Burning Man? Check out some of the strange creations made by these creative folks at Urban Campsite Amsterdam
https://www.urbancampsiteamsterdam.com/en/2017/installations/
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You can also check out folks that attend these sorts of events – get tours from them.
While expensive at $799, it’s a cool little design. Flyte developed a clock that has a hovering steel ball that circles the face.
Whenever I have free time and am looking for some inspiration, I love going over to the GDC Vault and watching the countless amazing presentations. Back in the day, one had to pay hundreds of dollars to see videos in the vault, but now they have their own free youtube channel.
In doing some research into visual styles, I ran the game Tengami from Nyamyam. I then found Jennifer Schneidereit’s GDC presentation describing how she created a engine that uses geometry to mimic the mechanical folding of pop-up books.
Rob Humble was fooling around with the idea of games as art – a continually argued topic in the game development community. In experimenting, he came up with the idea for this art piece/game called The Marriage.
It uses very simple controls and boxes to explore the ideas of relationship.
“The Marriage “came out of a long weekend I took with my wife down to Carmel. It was created that evening on my laptop as I listened to the waves of the pacific below. All the game mechanics were completed that evening although I spent weeks afterwards tuning and polishing. The game was also made “in process” as it were. I simply could not design this game on paper before hand. It had to be done by exploring, discarding and balancing game elements during creation.
You can play it in-browser here, or read more and download the original Windows version (as well as get instructions) here.
That….was certainly unique. Russian band Little Big singing a Spanish song at Eurovision.
