Another weekend to start fresh with blogging. Videos like this one makes it easy to boot up with grace. It’s the video “Tagalog” from the Chiptuneband “Cheap Dinosaurs“, filmed originally with the odd Game Boy Camera (some of this special items, you only can love Nintendo for). (via)

A short-movie by Patrick Jean, showing how a destructive pixel-invasion of New York / the Earth could look like. The retro-look is still so charming. For people, who do not only want invade city virtually, the Space Invader project from Paris equipped their shop with a heavily limited new invasion kit item, i.e. if you want to do this things in reality (if you can afford the 180/300 euro price tag).

Limited Space Invaders Kit

(Movie via real7a)

Oh, I love interactive (or reactive) sound-composition tools, especially if the sound and look good like this app called Rain. In this app you can place sounds in the form of blocks. The keep on falling and make a sound if they reach the bottom. Nice and soothing experience. There are good news for people, who work with sounds on other devices: “the app transmits all sequences via OSC messages on port 4444“.

Rain was made by Rainer Kohlberger, a Berlin-based Freelancer and Artist. He is also into blogging, some interesting things are to discover at his blogs Blowup and Bleed.

(via Creativeapplications)

The Open-Frameworks-Community is keep on pushing the borders at the iPhone. The latest strike is the Sonic Wire Sculpture from Amit Pitaru (we had this also on this blog), that found its way to this lovely mobile device. Zach Gage, who made apps like Unify or SynthPond helped in porting this app.

The Sonic Wire Sculptor turns “darwing into sound”. Really hard to describe this things in words, when you can look at this video, that explains the concept really well. Sonicwire is on Twitter as well.

And than there was this camera mounted on a Yo-Yo. Really sick stuff. Enjoy!
(via Doc-Pop)

Oh, the 4-th dimension. Not really easy to understand – but why not make a game of it? Miegakure does so. It is a puzzle-platformer, where you have to explore the rules of the 4th dimension to solve the stages. Only some screenshots and this gameplay video is available until now, but the game should be available for PC/Mac and consoles later on. It seems, that XKCD already had a play with it.

(via)

redScratch is an upcoming game from Hungary, that looks quite promising at the first glance. This game will be a “fast 2D action platformer with 9 unique stages“, the author Balázs Sabransky tells at the pixelinvoke-blog. It will somehow focus on essential things: It should no be very long or won’t have an epic story, but it should be a challenging game, with tons of secrets in it. Yummy. If we look at the first demo-video, than we can detects an emphasis on style and gameplay as well. redScratch should be free and availble for PC later this year.