jen’s Neighborhood

cult tree

by Scott Campbell

• Carl Spackler (Caddyshack), Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
• Stripe, Gizmo (Gremlins) | Wicket (Return of the Jedi)
• Freddy Kruger (Nightmare on Elm Street) | Edward Scissorhands
• The Feral Kid, Humungus (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior) | Jason Vorhees (Friday the 13th) | Michael Myers (Halloween)
• Deckard (Blade Runner) | Robocop | Terminator
• ?, ?, ? | Willow | ?
• Carrie | Kaneda, Tetsuo (Akira) | Daniel, Johnny (The Karate Kid) | Snake Plissken (Escape from New York) | Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China)
• Catbus (My Neighbor Totoro) | Iron Giant | Eraserhead | The Elephant Man | Godzilla
• James Bond | ?
• ?, ? | Rambo
• Igor, Dr. Frankenstein, Frankenstein's Monster
• Krank, Miette, One (The City of Lost Children)
  
• Spock, Kirk, Bones
  
• ?, ?, ? | ?, ?, ? | H.I. McDunnough (Raising Arizona) | Major Kong (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
• Spinal Tap | ? | ? | Paul Atreides (Dune) | Lee (Enter the Dragon)
• Elvira | ? | Dr. Frank-N-Furter (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) | The Warriors
• Dave (2001: A Space Oddysey)
• Conan | ?
• Tron | Alien
• Tenacious D
• Eliot, E.T. | Pee-wee Herman
  
• Sloth, Chunk (The Goonies) | ?
• Llloyd Dobler (Say Anything)
• Alex (A Clockwork Orange)
• Orange, White, Blonde (Reservoir Dogs)
• Vincent, Jules (Pulp Fiction) | Elwood, Jake (The Blues Brothers)
• Marty McFly (Back to the Future) | Greedo (Star Wars)
• Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)
• ?, ?
• Ash (Army of Darkness) | Indiana Jones
• Neo, Agent Smith (The Matrix)
• ?, ?
• ?, ?
• Harold and Maude
• Rosemary's Baby
  
• Willie Wonka (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) | Holly Golightly (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
• Skeleton Fighter (Jason and the Argonauts)
• Tin Man (The Wizard of Oz)
• ?
• Groucho Marx

I guess this has been available for awhile. I just accidentally stumbled across it by hitting tilde (~).

bloglines console

• United Airlines - Dragon
• United.com: Commercials
• Dragon [quicktime] (6.1 MB)
  
• The Making of Dragon [quicktime] (31.2 MB)
  

• United Airlines - Heart

I was drafting a campaign with a cyberpunk setting and I liked the idea of an encrypted decentralized manifesto that served as a mini-game. The player begins with no data and has to slowly receive it from seeding sources. Through the efforts of a default servitor and other participating players the process becomes exponentially faster.

While I continued to muse about what amounted to making a "watching grass grow"-level activity into something entertaining, I decided that peer-to-peer file-sharing is a lot like level grinding. Why not make it more so? Earn experience points by seeding files and level up a character as a result. A sponsored file could be a daily quest which rewards bonus experience points for distributing. Seeding parties could be arranged with a goal of reaching a certain number of full downloads within a set period of time.

Perhaps the bigger picture here is simply that anything is more enjoyable when you build a game around it. See also: Chore Wars and captcha-busting for explicit images.

via kottke

The Art of the Title Sequence

via Cartoon Brew

The world needs a MMORPG all about Robert's Rules of Order. No, really, it does! Gameplay would look something like this:

Last night I made a reference to the Jem theme and wound up searching for it on YouTube.

I came across a Jem / Le Tigre - "Deceptacon" edit. I may have seen it before but this time around I couldn't get it out of my head.