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More Internet Scraping!!!

Jan10
by admin on January 10, 2012 at 10:52 pm
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I had a couple of cool excursions across the Wibbly Wobbly Web recently, and, as usual when I’m too tired to produce actual content, I’ll send you in the direction of someone who isn’t.

My brother had a party several days ago (from which we still haven’t really cleaned up. It’s strange how empty cookie bags and pizza stained paper plates strewn across the landscape bother you less when your mother isn’t around, (I’ve taken to calling this “Lost Boys Syndrome”) (I am actually cleaning it up by degrees mom, the house will be tidy for your return)

Any road, one of little brother’s friends was rather proudly showing off an image he’d discovered on Stumble Upon, much in the same way a prize hunter shows off the dismembered parts of a rather large deer. The image was a piece of sheet music, obviously farcical and definitely unplayable. We (Friend, Brother and I) just about disemboweled ourselves laughing as we read through the piece, but we didn’t know anything about its origins, as whoever posted that particular copy also removed the title and copyright notice. (Astard-Bay probably has a Tumblr)

Thankfully, a quick Google search for a few of the distinctive directions in the sheet music, “Release the Penguins”, “Saxaphone moves downstage” and “Like a Dirigible” revealed that the song is called “Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz”. It was created by a professional Music Engraver With a Taste for Nonsense named John Stump. (You can find more information about the late Stump, as well as high-quality scans of his work  at a website run by his nephew: Lost in the Cloud

The next step was finding out if anyone had actually attempted to play this supposedly impossible piece of music. At first we found a video on YouTube claiming to be the same song, and while we were impressed by the skill of the pianist, what was being played was far too melodic to match the sheet music. Eventually we happened upon two different attempts at playing the song, both equally terrible in the self-aware mode of people with too much spare time.

Anyway, I was listening to more of Marasy8‘s work, as he has now topped Ronald Jenkees as my favorite person who plays a keyboard on Youtube, when I got off on a tangent watching people play Taiko no Tatsujin (link–link–link) and then a video (Which I can’t find now) of somebody getting a score of 600 in this game (My best is 73, which should give you a slightly more reasonable mark to beat.)

Later on I was reading Kill Screen Daily which told me that not only was there a new Rayman game out, but it was an ACTUAL Rayman game, (Not a rabbid in sight) forged from the brilliant (deranged?) mind of Rayman’s original creator, Michel Ancel. Sadly, no PC release as of yet. Rayman Creator was one of my absolute favorite dos games, and seeing all those characters coming back for a new game is like dousing my head with a bucket of liquid nostalgia, thank you Ubisoft.

I’m gonna wrap it up now, I could go on, it’s been one of those weeks, but as I’ve been typing this, my brother exposed me to this bit of action from an Indian movie called Magadheera. I don’t think I ever need to watch this movie.

OH! Speaking of movies! Finally got to watch TinTin with my brother at the little theater. I don’t think any film has so perfectly matched the tone and spirit of the source material. Ever. (Possibly Scott Pilgrim) It was so thoroughly TinTin. Go watch it 😀

 

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Back in the Saddle

Jan03
by admin on January 3, 2012 at 10:03 am
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So, hey! I’m aware that there wasn’t a new comic yesterday. There will be at some point today, and then things should go on smoothly from there. Before I start drawing though, I wanted to share a couple of things I’ve found recently.

The first one is The Diaspora Project. I’ve wondered a lot about what social networking would look like if it were open source, and this is pretty much it. All the features that I’ve appreciated of Twitter, G+ and Facebook, but with software that you can even run on your own server if you want to. It was started by some folks at Occupy Wall Street, who wanted to be able to have conversations about subverting giant corporations, in a space that wasn’t controlled by giant corporations.

The next two things I’ve discovered on Diaspora:

Home Videos with Commentary by The Ramsey Brothers. Just goes to show how much audio commentary is pulled out of the air on the spot.

Subnormality is a webcomic with a very “Underground Comix” feel to it. Long updates, lots of words. Probably some content warning on this, but it seems to be mostly general most of the time.

Oh! and you can follow me on Diaspora, at MetalSnail@poddery.com (It’s not an email address)

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Cool Things by Other People

Dec27
by admin on December 27, 2011 at 8:01 pm
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So I haven’t done a “Sharing Post” in a while, and I’ve got a few links saved up for one, so here they are:

This has been out for a while but Ryan Estrada has put up All of His Work Ever in One Giant Zip File. Ryan is one of the biggest names in webcomics, and he got there by putting out an enormous body of work, and offering it for free. So it’s nice to have it all collected here.

So, through genius work like FLCL, I’ve come to appreciate the madcap craziness of Japanese cartoons. Boxer Hockey fills that space well. I’m going to give a huge content warning on this one for violence and swearing. It’s about a sport that involves beating the other team with blunt objects and genetically modified frogs. It’s also got some really awkward dream sequences. You are warned.

Wormworld Sega updated on Christmas! If you haven’t read the First Chapter yet, it is a beautiful infinite canvas style graphic novel about an imaginative little boy spending the summer with his grandma. (This one is okay for everybody!)  The creator, Daniel Lieske, is also one of the principle voices in my new favorite podcast, Making Comics.

Recently while listening to WireTap on CBC, I heard about Master Legend, a real-life superhero from Florida. Looking more into that, I discovered Superheroes Anonymous, a not-for profit group dedicated to equipping and training real-life superheroes.

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Twelve Days of Christmas Music that Doesn’t Suck – Everything Else

Dec25
by admin on December 25, 2011 at 12:35 am
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How do I finish off this list? I’ve come to realize that this isn’t really about quality of music, but more, these are the songs that I’m not sick of yet, and when/if they play on the radio or somewhere, they are welcome.

I haven’t been going in any sort of order, so it’s not that big of a deal if I don’t end with “The Best”. But it took some deliberation to decide what to put last.

So here’s all of them:

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Twelve Days of Christmas Music that Doesn’t Suck – Walking in the Air

Dec24
by admin on December 24, 2011 at 8:00 pm
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So, full disclaimer, I’m mostly putting this one for the animation. I’ve read the book “The Snowman“, but I wasn’t aware that it had been made into a movie. (I also thought it was Russian. My brain is an interesting place)

Oh! And a very nice remix of the song by Hereldeduke:

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