Mindfly is currently planning a major revision to our studio website, including a new staff section. For the staff pages we’ll be having photos of the various Mindfliers. As such, we needed to TAKE the photos. This photo shoot became a prime candidate for making use of the studio’s digital camcorder. Nonsense ensues.
Of course, the fact that it was about 35 degrees didn’t make the entire process pleasant, mind you.
This pretty much sums up some days at the Mindfly studio.
We’re usually working, I swear. You just wouldn’t know it if you walked by on the sidewalk.
I’m not normally one to be reposting machima videos, but this is one of the better ones that I’ve seen in a long time, mainly because of all the custom skeletal animations being done (most WoW machimas use the standard animations throughout). It’s a great action scene focusing on the fight between two rogues. The creator (user percula on Vimeo) plans to do one showcasing each of the classes in WoW. I’m hoping she gets around to them all.
It’s a cliche as old as time, linking what sounds like an amazing video about this leaked game or that upcoming movie or those Swedish models, and instead the anxious web user finds themselves watching Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”, a cheesey 80’s song. It’s so common a phenomenon, that it has it’s own name “rickrolling”.
Well, MTV finally pulled their head out of their bad reality-tv laden arse and created MTV Music, a music video site that makes it easier than ever to trick your friends into watching bad eighties rock.
As a teenager I was in a family that didn’t really encourage rock music, let alone have the spare funds to waste on cable television, so I missed out on a lot of common reference points for pop culture. Now no longer! I can go watch all the pink and neon blue videos of the past. Even better, I can embed these gems of the codpiece era in blog posts, making other people suffer with me (or unsubscribe from my blog, I suppose.)
Welcome back to relevance, MTV.