Sometimes, simple things in life are more rewarding. For an example.. PACMAN.. the game is pretty simple, eat dots, avoid ghosts, eat pills, eat ghosts. Next level. That game is way more fun that some over $50 video games out there. Another example, you go to a night club and you see this zipper pant breaking woman on the bar.. you get close and your pants are useless already. When you see her she is full of MAKE UP does she looks pretty? MAYBE. More yes than no. Freaky? Probably. Unless you have a fetish with clowns. But the thing is she looks OK. But after some fun, she starts sweating, and the LOTS of make up starts running out her face, then, the next day under the sunlight that creeps its self through the window you will see something really interesting.. SURPRISE! You just fucked and over-aged woman (or under-age and guess what you are going to jail pedophile you). Or simply, she wasnt THAT GOOD LOOKING as you thought she was. The make up made magic. Sometimes the prettiest woman dont use make up AT ALL. Because they don't need it... tHey look natural, simple, pure beauty, not wearing LOTS of make up to cover their gravel face or whatever.
Now that you get the point hopefully, I want to say this, Paranormal Activity its a simple/GOOD horror movie. It uses special effects.. cheap ones.. BUt they work well for what it is. A lamp moving, a tv on static, things closing, shadows, footsteps... all can be done cheaply.. but the way it was executed it was perfect for waht it was... For some reason I like movies with less CG.
Paranormal Activity its a movie about this couple that they are documenting their haunting of a demon, specially to the woman. So the picture quality is camcorder type, so it all fits. The movie is not perfect, but it does scare the hell out of you with the most simple things you can imagine... its well done. It actaully left me thinking.. because thats something that could happen... no flashy things or special fx, just creepy things that move by themselves. A simple bang of the door, some keys falling, etc all those things are things that are more credible. That is why I liked the movie... it managed to scare people with simple things... I bet many hollywood people are pissed, spending their budget on crappy special effects and their movies are not box office material. That's fun.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
2 YEARS LATER
I remeber 2 years ago... around this time, I wanted to start a blog, and that I did. Then, somehow I just started losing interest, but for some reason -I Think is the season- I am getting eager to write again.
Many things happend in my life since the last post, I went to LA on a roadtrip to San Francisco for a Flash Gamming Summit Conference, it was awesome, I loved California. Got even an offer in Zynga. When I came back to Puerto Rico, started dealing with some personal issues, then I went off again on a tour with my band to Europe for 2 weeks. We traveled to Madrid, Barcelona and many more places, staing in squat housed, friend houses, sleeping in the van, eating crappy food, playing hardocre shows, and many more things. It was awesome. Again when I came back everything changed, I moved to an ew apartment where I am about to move again.. Well many things, good and bad. I have this plan to start a new blog dedicated to old school gaming and hardcore records. Also, my game website got its 1st birth day with 26 original game under its belt. One of the games had over 16,700 unique players, thats awesome.
Well this summer movie wasn't that good as the last one, but I think I liked couple movies, UP was cool, Trasnformes made me uncomfortable, I almost pee'd my self in Hangover, District 9 was interesting, and well couple more that I can't recall right now.. oh yeah Terminator Salvation was probably my fave.
Good things to come. Gonna redo my website, people are complaining.
Keep it brutal.
Many things happend in my life since the last post, I went to LA on a roadtrip to San Francisco for a Flash Gamming Summit Conference, it was awesome, I loved California. Got even an offer in Zynga. When I came back to Puerto Rico, started dealing with some personal issues, then I went off again on a tour with my band to Europe for 2 weeks. We traveled to Madrid, Barcelona and many more places, staing in squat housed, friend houses, sleeping in the van, eating crappy food, playing hardocre shows, and many more things. It was awesome. Again when I came back everything changed, I moved to an ew apartment where I am about to move again.. Well many things, good and bad. I have this plan to start a new blog dedicated to old school gaming and hardcore records. Also, my game website got its 1st birth day with 26 original game under its belt. One of the games had over 16,700 unique players, thats awesome.
Well this summer movie wasn't that good as the last one, but I think I liked couple movies, UP was cool, Trasnformes made me uncomfortable, I almost pee'd my self in Hangover, District 9 was interesting, and well couple more that I can't recall right now.. oh yeah Terminator Salvation was probably my fave.
Good things to come. Gonna redo my website, people are complaining.
Keep it brutal.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
mobile post
At a conference killing time. Positive update? Gonna go to california next week for the flash gaming summit.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
World of Goo Soundtrack kicks ass and working on more games
Hello, gonna start blogging again more often... even if its just small posts.. who reads them anyways. The Soundtrack of World of Goo is fucking amazing, its really fun to listen too and its well produced. This soundtrack feels more like a movie than a game, it also reminds me Tim Burton's stuff, not sure.. but I can picture it on a movie of him. Download it here:
Also for this month I did a new game for the game website I did back in august, PH GAMING, look for it here: , the site is under the name of Primera Hora, but pretty much it stands alone with its own audience, the site on its first 3 monthas already had over +54,000 visits, and actually right now it might be doubled becuase of the christmas game that was released last month.
The new game available is called GREED, is pretty simple, but has some strategy and some psychological meaning to it, go to the website and play it.
Right now I am doing a Guitar Hero kind of game for an American Idol type of contest but in spanish, its coming out really good, ill keep posting about it.
See ya.
Also for this month I did a new game for the game website I did back in august, PH GAMING, look for it here: , the site is under the name of Primera Hora, but pretty much it stands alone with its own audience, the site on its first 3 monthas already had over +54,000 visits, and actually right now it might be doubled becuase of the christmas game that was released last month.
The new game available is called GREED, is pretty simple, but has some strategy and some psychological meaning to it, go to the website and play it.
Right now I am doing a Guitar Hero kind of game for an American Idol type of contest but in spanish, its coming out really good, ill keep posting about it.
See ya.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
FUCK SUNRAYS VECTOR BACKGROUND
I know I haven't posted in a while but I really need to say this: FUCK SUNRAYS VECTOR BACKGROUNDS. You know what I am talking about I am 200% sure you already seen it, if you haven't you are blind or died couple years ago because the Sunrays Vector Background is used a lot by moronic so called graphic designers and actually (maybe) is not even their fault but their clients or account executives that think its cool, but guess what, is not ( at least 3 years ago).
Sunrays vector backgrounds its so overused is not even funny, a year ago I said damn I should write about this overused technique.. but since I am a nice person I gave it a break, but still its been overused maybe more than ever... CAN'T PEOPLE LEAVE IT TO REST? This site even talks about it as the #1 most over used graphic design technique, enter site .
In case you still not sure what I am talking about look here:
Familiar? of course.. its EVERYWHERE... cheap agencies use it on their clients products.. because its "COOL" the worst thing is that they might think is a new technique, but ITS STUPID if you go around the street and you look at billboards 2 or 3 out of five have it (at least here in Puerto Rico). I should take pictures next time but it is that bad. Sometimes I htink what the hell they were thinking when they did a sunray vector background based ad.
Dramatization (may be 100% accurate):
Client: I want my product to look hip and trendy eventhou it is not at all.
Account Executive from an incompetent agency (most of them): Oh yeah lets see we can try something new, never used before and it will shit brick on peoples faces of how awesome it will be. Lets put the product on the middle and put.. put.. something like lighting on the background like a glow or sunrays (considering the incompetent fucker already seen the sunray vector backgorund).
Client: Yeah, that's it like sun rays, that will be so radical and new. Here is a pic of the product.
Account Executive from an incompetent agency (most of them): Great ill get my graphic designer and do it in no time.
Couple wasted days later...
Mediocre Graphic Designer with half-assed degree: This art took me a lot of hours, but I came up with a nice background related to the sun ray concept (considering he aleready seen the sunray vector crap and just downloaded already done brushes and vector patterns of sun rays by somebody else like these).
Account Executive from an incompetent agency (most of them are): Oh great, great let's see it.
Client annoyingly impressed: Thats what I wanted, its so new and trendy, this will catch the eye of the consumer (fact: since 80% of the ads around use the same concept all looks the same and generic and to be honest 95% of the time I don't recall what the hell the AD was about, honestly).
Couple fruitless days later.
Angry Client: People are complaining that our product art is copied or way too similar from our rivals and other products ads. We want something different.
Account Executive from an more than ever incompetent agency (most of them are): REally? That is so bad I dont thinks it looks the same, but yeah, I think they copied our style (completely naive), don't worry our graphic designer will fix it.
Couple more days wasted.
Completely Mediocre Graphic Designer with half-assed degree: Yeah I tried something even more new, that no one has ever done before (considering he or she donwloaded new brushes or vector patterns), here it is.
And of course everyone thought it was a genius piece of art and probably got an award.
I know I did a dramatization but guess what I might not be far from the truth because if you go out now on the streets and look around or in websites or magazines you will see the infamous sunray vector backgrounds. I think a real graphic desginer will never used that piuece of shit unless its product is unfortunately tied to it from its past or you have an account executive pointing a needle with aids to your neck. I bet I can take a piece of shit, put a sunray vector backgorund to it and agencies will love it. THe thing is, somehow in agencies and its abused not skill enough designers are realizing that the sunray vector backgrounds are being overused (too late in the game) so they are doing variations of it, by twirling the rays or making it more circular, hell, I already seen 3 pieces of ads this week around using circular rays. The twirled ones already been around too little more time.
Besides the sunrays htere are plenty more techniques overdone, like the victorian type of sign, couple months ago it was funny because a fast food restaurand and a car company used the same donwloaded victorian sing on their ads the same week... it was THE SAME, its was a real sad day for those agencies, the truth came out account executives know shit and their grap[hic designers download brushes and patterns instead of creating. Fuck them.
Well that's it for now... Avoid using sunrays as backgrounds, post-its for text back ground (I am excused cause I worked an actual POst-it website so fuck you), dirty textures, victorian signs, silouhettes of people dancing, funky circles, stupid droplets (like the ones in asshole), ink splatters, notebook Sketched child like letterss, and many more stuff, be creative and oh yeah people started using Little Big Planet type of design around... what the fucking hell.
If you read this and you feel insulted... sorry to hurt your so-called graphic design feelings, FUCK OFF.
Sunrays vector backgrounds its so overused is not even funny, a year ago I said damn I should write about this overused technique.. but since I am a nice person I gave it a break, but still its been overused maybe more than ever... CAN'T PEOPLE LEAVE IT TO REST? This site even talks about it as the #1 most over used graphic design technique, enter site .
In case you still not sure what I am talking about look here:
Familiar? of course.. its EVERYWHERE... cheap agencies use it on their clients products.. because its "COOL" the worst thing is that they might think is a new technique, but ITS STUPID if you go around the street and you look at billboards 2 or 3 out of five have it (at least here in Puerto Rico). I should take pictures next time but it is that bad. Sometimes I htink what the hell they were thinking when they did a sunray vector background based ad.
Dramatization (may be 100% accurate):
Client: I want my product to look hip and trendy eventhou it is not at all.
Account Executive from an incompetent agency (most of them): Oh yeah lets see we can try something new, never used before and it will shit brick on peoples faces of how awesome it will be. Lets put the product on the middle and put.. put.. something like lighting on the background like a glow or sunrays (considering the incompetent fucker already seen the sunray vector backgorund).
Client: Yeah, that's it like sun rays, that will be so radical and new. Here is a pic of the product.
Account Executive from an incompetent agency (most of them): Great ill get my graphic designer and do it in no time.
Couple wasted days later...
Mediocre Graphic Designer with half-assed degree: This art took me a lot of hours, but I came up with a nice background related to the sun ray concept (considering he aleready seen the sunray vector crap and just downloaded already done brushes and vector patterns of sun rays by somebody else like these).
Account Executive from an incompetent agency (most of them are): Oh great, great let's see it.
Client annoyingly impressed: Thats what I wanted, its so new and trendy, this will catch the eye of the consumer (fact: since 80% of the ads around use the same concept all looks the same and generic and to be honest 95% of the time I don't recall what the hell the AD was about, honestly).
Couple fruitless days later.
Angry Client: People are complaining that our product art is copied or way too similar from our rivals and other products ads. We want something different.
Account Executive from an more than ever incompetent agency (most of them are): REally? That is so bad I dont thinks it looks the same, but yeah, I think they copied our style (completely naive), don't worry our graphic designer will fix it.
Couple more days wasted.
Completely Mediocre Graphic Designer with half-assed degree: Yeah I tried something even more new, that no one has ever done before (considering he or she donwloaded new brushes or vector patterns), here it is.
And of course everyone thought it was a genius piece of art and probably got an award.
I know I did a dramatization but guess what I might not be far from the truth because if you go out now on the streets and look around or in websites or magazines you will see the infamous sunray vector backgrounds. I think a real graphic desginer will never used that piuece of shit unless its product is unfortunately tied to it from its past or you have an account executive pointing a needle with aids to your neck. I bet I can take a piece of shit, put a sunray vector backgorund to it and agencies will love it. THe thing is, somehow in agencies and its abused not skill enough designers are realizing that the sunray vector backgrounds are being overused (too late in the game) so they are doing variations of it, by twirling the rays or making it more circular, hell, I already seen 3 pieces of ads this week around using circular rays. The twirled ones already been around too little more time.
Besides the sunrays htere are plenty more techniques overdone, like the victorian type of sign, couple months ago it was funny because a fast food restaurand and a car company used the same donwloaded victorian sing on their ads the same week... it was THE SAME, its was a real sad day for those agencies, the truth came out account executives know shit and their grap[hic designers download brushes and patterns instead of creating. Fuck them.
Well that's it for now... Avoid using sunrays as backgrounds, post-its for text back ground (I am excused cause I worked an actual POst-it website so fuck you), dirty textures, victorian signs, silouhettes of people dancing, funky circles, stupid droplets (like the ones in asshole), ink splatters, notebook Sketched child like letterss, and many more stuff, be creative and oh yeah people started using Little Big Planet type of design around... what the fucking hell.
If you read this and you feel insulted... sorry to hurt your so-called graphic design feelings, FUCK OFF.
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