Monday, April 27, 2009

Links for 2009-04-27

Instructions on creating your own Star Wars crawl on TheForce.Net:

http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/postproduction/crawl/opening.asp

Reviews of some spy gear, including a bulletproof dress shirt:

At Wired: http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/pr_roundup_spygear
Gizmodo has a whole category: http://gizmodo.com/tag/spy-gear/

Some people think you shouldn't use Papyrus, the font I liberally use in "The Library of Dresan" logo and all over the rest of this site. I present the evidence; you decide:

On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_(typeface)
Its Author: http://www.costelloart.com/fonts.html
Some Criticism: http://modernl.com/article/5-terrible-fonts-that-you-should-not-use-in-print-design
Papyrus Sightings: http://esotericappeal.typepad.com/papyrus/
Papyrus Watch: http://www.papyruswatch.com/

And finally, I bring you a few pointers to the Artist General, Michael Masley, who I saw again recently playing his cymbalom to the crowds at the 2009 Game Developer's Conference:

On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Masley
His web site: http://www.artistgeneral.com/
His very nice CD: http://www.amazon.com/Cymbalennium-Michael-Masley/dp/B0007VDF6S

Image: Michael Masley playing the cymbalom at GDC 2009 using his amazing bowhammers, which create a distinctive soundscape that sounds like Masley is several performers.

-the Centaur

Labels: Pointers

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Monday, April 27, 2009

Links for 2009-04-27

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