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.
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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.
Monday, August 4, 2008
SUMMER MOVIE BLAST FEST 2008! part 2
Hell, its been over a month since my last post... July... its like the peak month of the summer and its over, classes start this week, (at least here in puerto rico) so that mean pretty much summer is death. But it was a good one, the highlight was the cruise, and some road trips. I did not played that much with my band actually but we gonna start this week. BBQs were kind of cool, yeah I bought a BBQ and did like 2 BBQ nights at the terrace upstairs, one of them was spent playing different video games and drinking lots of chinacoladas.
Now, the thing what I loved about this summmer were the cool movies around, so here is some movies I saw and gonna give you my point of view of them. I am 100% I might be forgetting a movie or two on this list but I will talk about the ones I remember. So here it goes.
This moviw was all right, didn't felt like a summer movie at all, but it was a good laugh while it lasted. It had its moments, but it all just falls flats onto its face later on. Its like, they ran out of jokes and the movie lost all the sense of it so they arranged a really random ending. You will laugh with this movie... or at the movie but you will. I just the ending and just that out of nowhere script that ticks me off.
This was a good super hero movie, better than Iron Man in my opinion, since the character was already developed they focused more on the movie. Still strongly based about the character's life and how he deals with it but has some interesting parts. It felt more like a movie than an Hulk only movie. In shot words I might say it was straight to the point, and the main character did a great job. I like how Marvel is mixing now their movies for an upcoming surprise its really cool how can you see stuff from captain amaerica in iron man and stuff from iron man in Hulk. It was a good summer movie, there wasn't that much of a hype or promotion as other hero movies but it was good. Had fun with this one.
The only reason I wanted to see this movie was because of Steve Carrell, and all I can say is this movie at least is better than his 2 latest movies but not better than 40 year old virgin. The movie is what you might expect when you have a wrestler on it, and this girl from Princess Diaries, I dont really like her but she developed to be a nice looking female ready to be a mom any time soon. The movie was ok, it was funny but not as funny, its ok for a movie filler for a boring night. I think this is a Tie with Zohan, both were ok funny and had action sequences and all. No reason to be a summer movie. Again they ran out of ideas and they decided to end the movie on a random way.
Not a summer movie, felt like a september or november movie.. or even april or march.. maybe february. But not summer. This movie was an idea of my girlfriend to see it. It wasnt bad, its not bad, its jsut fucked up. The story of a hermaphrodite. I did a song called HERMAFRODITA back when I was like in 9th grade or something. The movie its a little strong sometimes, its ok as a rental not as a theater showcase.... its a little um fucked up. But it is good I recommended if you are into FINE ARTS pieces of goat shit. Lets move on.
Loved this movie, it had nice characters but contrary to other Pizar movies some characters didnt had that much time to develop but later on they pushed you their personalities. They are not as memorable. I think the only character that is really memorable and was only for couple minutes on screen and neve actually raelly talked was Bobba Fett from Star Wars, he is one of the most memorable characters from the saga and he dies kind of fast. Anyways in this movie it felt like those characters were grasping for recognition near the end of the movie, and you will be like.. ok who the fuck are you and why you are so special now. BUt Wall-E is a great movie the character of Wall-E it really felt alive, I give 2 thumbs way up for that. NIce job pixar. The movie wont be that great for kids... I mean is not htat is bad for kids.. but it wont have that impact as other pixar movies had. I recommend this movie, its good and yes felt like a good old summer movie.
Its a really good movie, but I would've enjoyed even more if it wasn't because of assholes crowd in the theaters to see "blah blah balh Batman blah blah blah The JOker blah blah blah I like the Joker blah blah blah my daddy rapes me at night blah blah balh". Fucks. Its stupid, the movie was full couple times I even thought about going, and when I finally went I missed the first 10 minutes or so... so the experience wasn't the best. But about the movie itself, yeah it was a really good movie, not perfect, but really good. The Joker in all honesty could have been better, is not waht I expected maybe because of the hype stupid people gave him, but the actor indeed did a great work it was a really disturbed character and I liked it jsut didnt felt 100% the joker there. But in a point of view I know the "new" Batman revisions are more Movies than a batman movie so it makes sense to make him a psysho who paints his disfigured face as a clown. Overall its a great summer movie, it was like the grand finale of hte summer movies for me... its the last one I went to see. And probably gonna see it again this week hopefully without a packed room. Before I forget want thing I like about the movie is that Bruce continues to be a dick and dissing people up, and as a Batman he is showcased more like an anti-hero instead of a hero. Can't imagine what they will do on a third movie, is a RObin going to come out? Hope not, but seriously waht they could come up with... The Penguin? Riddler? Its funny because most of them are psychos. I recommend this movie. As a last fun fact, Batman comics been around for decades, and now they are starting to sell again, kids are sending their parents asking for "I want a comic of Batman", they dont even care just give me wahtever piece of paper tha has Batman printed on it. IN a way its good, but if you go to Borders you see comics falling on the floor being ignored... a movie has to come out for posers start reading comics.. and pretend to like them. Oh well.
Overall this summer was a great one, I missed couple movies I wanted to see like Narnia just because I saw the first one, The Love Guru just because Mike Myers stupidity, and Journey to the Center of the Earth.. looked good if I was like 17 years younger, and still need to see HELLBOY 2, THE MUMMY 3 and um I htink thats it on the current list. But other movies are Death Race and I dont know what else. But that aint summer time movies. We will see what happens next year. See ya.
Now, the thing what I loved about this summmer were the cool movies around, so here is some movies I saw and gonna give you my point of view of them. I am 100% I might be forgetting a movie or two on this list but I will talk about the ones I remember. So here it goes.
Don't Mess With The Zohan!
This moviw was all right, didn't felt like a summer movie at all, but it was a good laugh while it lasted. It had its moments, but it all just falls flats onto its face later on. Its like, they ran out of jokes and the movie lost all the sense of it so they arranged a really random ending. You will laugh with this movie... or at the movie but you will. I just the ending and just that out of nowhere script that ticks me off.
The Incredible Hulk
This was a good super hero movie, better than Iron Man in my opinion, since the character was already developed they focused more on the movie. Still strongly based about the character's life and how he deals with it but has some interesting parts. It felt more like a movie than an Hulk only movie. In shot words I might say it was straight to the point, and the main character did a great job. I like how Marvel is mixing now their movies for an upcoming surprise its really cool how can you see stuff from captain amaerica in iron man and stuff from iron man in Hulk. It was a good summer movie, there wasn't that much of a hype or promotion as other hero movies but it was good. Had fun with this one.
Get Smart
The only reason I wanted to see this movie was because of Steve Carrell, and all I can say is this movie at least is better than his 2 latest movies but not better than 40 year old virgin. The movie is what you might expect when you have a wrestler on it, and this girl from Princess Diaries, I dont really like her but she developed to be a nice looking female ready to be a mom any time soon. The movie was ok, it was funny but not as funny, its ok for a movie filler for a boring night. I think this is a Tie with Zohan, both were ok funny and had action sequences and all. No reason to be a summer movie. Again they ran out of ideas and they decided to end the movie on a random way.
XXY
Not a summer movie, felt like a september or november movie.. or even april or march.. maybe february. But not summer. This movie was an idea of my girlfriend to see it. It wasnt bad, its not bad, its jsut fucked up. The story of a hermaphrodite. I did a song called HERMAFRODITA back when I was like in 9th grade or something. The movie its a little strong sometimes, its ok as a rental not as a theater showcase.... its a little um fucked up. But it is good I recommended if you are into FINE ARTS pieces of goat shit. Lets move on.
WALL-E
Loved this movie, it had nice characters but contrary to other Pizar movies some characters didnt had that much time to develop but later on they pushed you their personalities. They are not as memorable. I think the only character that is really memorable and was only for couple minutes on screen and neve actually raelly talked was Bobba Fett from Star Wars, he is one of the most memorable characters from the saga and he dies kind of fast. Anyways in this movie it felt like those characters were grasping for recognition near the end of the movie, and you will be like.. ok who the fuck are you and why you are so special now. BUt Wall-E is a great movie the character of Wall-E it really felt alive, I give 2 thumbs way up for that. NIce job pixar. The movie wont be that great for kids... I mean is not htat is bad for kids.. but it wont have that impact as other pixar movies had. I recommend this movie, its good and yes felt like a good old summer movie.
The Dark Knight
Its a really good movie, but I would've enjoyed even more if it wasn't because of assholes crowd in the theaters to see "blah blah balh Batman blah blah blah The JOker blah blah blah I like the Joker blah blah blah my daddy rapes me at night blah blah balh". Fucks. Its stupid, the movie was full couple times I even thought about going, and when I finally went I missed the first 10 minutes or so... so the experience wasn't the best. But about the movie itself, yeah it was a really good movie, not perfect, but really good. The Joker in all honesty could have been better, is not waht I expected maybe because of the hype stupid people gave him, but the actor indeed did a great work it was a really disturbed character and I liked it jsut didnt felt 100% the joker there. But in a point of view I know the "new" Batman revisions are more Movies than a batman movie so it makes sense to make him a psysho who paints his disfigured face as a clown. Overall its a great summer movie, it was like the grand finale of hte summer movies for me... its the last one I went to see. And probably gonna see it again this week hopefully without a packed room. Before I forget want thing I like about the movie is that Bruce continues to be a dick and dissing people up, and as a Batman he is showcased more like an anti-hero instead of a hero. Can't imagine what they will do on a third movie, is a RObin going to come out? Hope not, but seriously waht they could come up with... The Penguin? Riddler? Its funny because most of them are psychos. I recommend this movie. As a last fun fact, Batman comics been around for decades, and now they are starting to sell again, kids are sending their parents asking for "I want a comic of Batman", they dont even care just give me wahtever piece of paper tha has Batman printed on it. IN a way its good, but if you go to Borders you see comics falling on the floor being ignored... a movie has to come out for posers start reading comics.. and pretend to like them. Oh well.
Overall this summer was a great one, I missed couple movies I wanted to see like Narnia just because I saw the first one, The Love Guru just because Mike Myers stupidity, and Journey to the Center of the Earth.. looked good if I was like 17 years younger, and still need to see HELLBOY 2, THE MUMMY 3 and um I htink thats it on the current list. But other movies are Death Race and I dont know what else. But that aint summer time movies. We will see what happens next year. See ya.
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