Sunday, April 25, 2010

New kind of channel, new brand of idiocy.

I’m gonna relentlessly self-advertise until someone tells me I’m doing it wrong or our videos suck, which they do, but I’ll pretend to refuse to believe that for the time being.

In the meantime, Welcome to Shut Down Sit Up Productions.

We make babies, and by that I mean videos. Like these:

My colleague is the illustriously flamboyant-acting musical-entrepreneurial Internet industrialist-turned-aspiring YouTube guitarist and occasional satyr, kg. Check out his blog here.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010

Graffiti

Beautiful camerawork. Interesting content. Unappreciated artform.

Rocketboom. Go check them out.

Reppin’ Sauga (and Milton).

Milton whiz kid's iPhone app downloaded 2 million times
April 10th, 2010 – Nicole Baute, The Toronto Star 

AH. MAH. GAWD.  e83380f04b379e4218613d5428ea

Well, it seems to me that certain people I know are getting famous. And surprisingly, I’m not a jealous chump who gets all defensive about my deserving talent and ability being overshadowed by opportunistic and advantageous peers, because I’m such a nice guy.

No. Instead when I found out about my friend at PixelCUBE Studios has gotten on Page 2 of the Toronto Star on Saturday, I was quite the opposite. I mean, that’s pretty damn cool. I know a guy at my school who’s a ‘savvy businessman’ as stated in that article, and he makes games! The profile photo they took for the article was in the very same room I played Halo with him in! It’s quite exciting the more you think about it.

To think of the prospect of knowing a future software programmer for Apple, creating the next sixty iPod Jumbos or iPad Minis is sweet. What if he goes on to make the next entire game genre, start his own game development company? The possibilities are endless with the imagination of a bright and rich future. So I congratulate that man for his accomplishments at such a young age. He really is a savvy businessman and pro-level game programmer when it comes to making games at 18. And the best part is…

He can represent our school, our community and even myself! Being sponsored by the famed PixelCUBE Studios? Amazing! Just think of the money to be made. The fame, the fortune! The endless cigars and women and cars and fame! Did I mention fame? It’s going to be big, wild even! It’s gonna be the best time of our lives!

I tried to be like a 60’s movie producer trying to convince you, the director or actor, why you should be a part of my production. Only I’m not even the producer for this thing—in fact I think he’s less excited than I am. But I digress.

I do wish for the day I can say, ‘I knew that guy. We had Grade 11 Physics together and I sat beside him. Our teacher was terrible and an idiot, and I’d cheat off his test when it came time, and the rest of the time he’d wake me up after I napped in class just before the bell. What a pal. Now he’s rich and famous. Funny how things turn out!"

We just have to hope things keep turning out, and not around.

Check out his iPhone and iPod Touch game at the iTunes store, and his YouTube channel, with tutorials and commentary on the making of game apps for iPhones and other techno mumbo jumbo.

Aurally Audacious Endeavours – John Roman

Not really much to say about this guy, except for that I found about him through another John, who wants to blog too, and that he’s a native of London, Ontario and operates in the Toronto club scene (I think), according to his MySpace Music page. For some reason I don’t really want to research further into it, since the nature of the following mix of his seems to get an iffy reception for obvious reasons. Listen at your own discretion.

He’s right though; everybody does.

I don’t know what exact genre it is, be it techno or house or just normal electro, but one thing is for sure. If I listen to it enough, my head starts throbbing. It is possibly the most annoying beat I have listened to for a while. And yet, I find it addictive. So damn addictive. It’s infectiously damaging. It’s electronic music.

If you do find it strangely appealing, word of advice: get a convertible with a capable stereo system, make sure its at least 2 AM in the morning, connect your media player, crank of the volume, and drive down a road with it playing, and pump your fists like you just don’t care. You will not be disappointed.

Whatever you make of it, it’s there. Just there. Like most of this music. Go raving or crash a house party and sneak this song in. Crowd will go wild, or they will hit the DJ in the face, out of jealousy because they think the DJ is mocking their hopes and dreams. Or just because its annoying as fuck. Either/or. Doesn’t matter.

BOOO BOO BOOO BOOO, BA-BOO BA-BOO BA-BOOOO.

God damn it.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Law Abiding Engineer – Coming to theatres IN MY DREAMS.

The possibilities for one-liners based on the game is endless, and possibly overdone multiple times within the comments section of this video.

But it still blows my mind—as much as it can be blown, at how tailored and professional this looks. How TrueOneMoreUser pulled this off, even considering the various editing programs he did use, still leaves me speechless. There are really no words to describe the awesomeness of this video other than the word:

Epic.

Kudos to you, TrueOneMoreUser. Machinima may take another step towards a technological and media advancement the near future, with applications like this.

Hey, I love Team Fortress 2 and I love movies, and this guy hits it right on the spot.