2008

Jul

The end of a long, good weekend.

“Live action movies aren’t live action anymore.”
— Michael Sporn Animation -...

Department of Civil Disobedience: Google...

Faceless ‘aliens’ spotted in crowd at...

Bound and Gagged in a Van? Now THAT'S...

Happy Anniversaries to Me!

July 1st, 2005! The day I escaped reality and took my current job. The day I was able to rediscover...

You guys don’t believe me, but I’m tellin’...

Jun

Comments back...mostly

Well, I seem to have gotten comments back and working again, but ones over like three months old...

GladOS as your GPS voice! Oh hell, yeah!

FCC To Reevaluate "Embedded Advertising" On...

Holy Viral Marketing, Batman! (NPR)

So yeah, I got the Spore Creature Creator. Say hello to my...

New Look for Mysdirection

So, I guess my constant need for a new look shows my lack of caring anything about personal...

ARGFest-o-con 2008 in Boston

What began as two guys carousing in Vegas in 2002 has turned into ARGFest-o-Con! This year,...

Ball Girl Makes Incredible Catch (via VascoGames) OK,so it’s a viral for Gatorade, but...

The dot matrix toaster Clues in toast, I’m telling...

Taco Bell Gets Frozen (via getyourfreezeon) This is being reported everywhere as being Improv...

Real World invisible ink, kinda! (via labfly on Twitter)

Notes To Mary - Plot Summary, or How I Rick...

42 Entertainment wins for its “Year Zero”...

“Oh, we can’t talk about something that’s still...”
— On Cannes: A New Kind of...

At Cannes Lions Awards

Watch http://www.twitter.com/vpisteve for live updates.

Cannes Report

Well, our workshop is over, all is well. We had a packed room as Susand Bonds, Alex Lieu, Mike Borys...

Heading to Cannes for the first time

OK, so I’m leaving tomorrow night for Cannes. Four of us from 42 are going to the Cannes Lions...

The greatest nintendo wedding cake ever.

Crosswalk Countdown by GuerilLA, a sort-of Improv Everywhere wannabe. Not sure about this one....

Game of the Day: Gemcraft For all you Tower Defense...

Beijing approves Olympics ‘cheer’

Mystery on Fifth Avenue

OK, this is great. What they didn’t show was someone playing someone playing World of Warcraft...

Space Invaders for your fridge!

Sanity Gimme Sum.

OK, this is just great! Man, I miss Police Squad!

Santa Monica Pier’s New Ferris Wheel!

YoungMe NowMe….except with cars!

The “World’s Most Popular Blogger” 230,755...

Bee swarm attacks hikers, kills dog in...

intellinuts: Segway in the grocery store? come on...

Sci Fi Channel is game to join the virtual...

Here’s what the Universal Studios fire looked like to...

Fire at Universal Studios this morning. :( Apparently the...

The 100 Best Movie Posters of All Time: Interesting list,...

May

globeandmail.com: ARG creator's got game

New LOST ARG launching at Comic-Con? Now there’s an idea! :P

Game of the Day: Get Smart Control (Tower)...

Eminent Game Designers

Update: Artist Admits He Didn’t Actually Use GPS, DHL...

Paramount silencing portions of Indiana Jones...

Heading to Cannes...

…and you thought i was kidding about Beaumont sur Mer. :) Just confirmed that 42E will be...

NASA - Phoenix Makes a Grand Entrance Sorry, but this is one...

BIGGEST DRAWING IN THE WORLD Pretty amazing use of Global...

Stewie Griffin Untooned

Down the Rabbit Hole (Red Seal) Pretty cool. ARG?

It’s the Telectroscope! This is pretty dang cool (and...

Comfortable cotton bonnet with latex sculpted brain (Thanks,...

Confectionery Art!

OK, this is awesome

Game of the Day: MazeFrenzy

Creative use of YouTube by Electric Eel...

Lost: A theory on time travel

Woman Wrongfully Targeted By RIAA Lawsuit...

Animatronic WALL-E Spotted in LA

Facebook Anthem Yeah…I know this video’s been around a couple of months now, but I can...

My, look how you've grown

Sleep Deprivation Isn't a Badge of Honor

Real Life as a Monopoly Board

Foux De Fa Fa by Flight of the Conchords (via Jay on Facebook ) HBO on iTunes?! Does this...

The Passively Multiplayer Online Game, PMOG

Brand new Google Reader for iPhone If you have an iPhone and...

“Sending a text message is at least 4 times more expensive...”
— according to an astronomer at...

Not only is this very clever and cool, it makes me really miss my PowerBook.

Japanese Poop Museum!

Game of the Day: Music Bounce

“Advertising is dead or dying and the future is exclusively...”
— Funware’s threat to the...

Yes We Shall

(Thanks, Kristen)

“Speaking as a lifelong geek, my knee-jerk reaction when I...”
— Wheaton Blog: On Abrams...

5 Great Examples of Guerilla Marketing Gone...

Okay. So, this is a...

Okay. So, this is a test of the voice to text feature of jott.com. Apparently I can call on my phone...

Homeland Security: Court Rules Customs Agents Can Collect...

…and they’re already all gone. But I feel much...

It's finally illegal to drive with a dog on...

42 Wins Two Webby People's Voice Awards for...

Nintendo Zapper Lamp

Virtual Magic Kingdom Users to Protest at the real-world...

“We created the first ever global alternate reality game.”
— McDonald’s CMO Mary...

New Ghostbusters Game Screenshots!

Mysterious Letter (or How to Do a...

Returned from Beaumont sur Mer to find a golden envelope waiting for me at the office. Inside was a...

Apr

Things that make the news in Japan: Tulip Vandal!!

Nature’s Most Perfect Food (via andyi)

Ran into this guy recently. Now that’s player...

Get Out and Play Very cool.

SXSW Report: What Can the Videogame...

**Non-micro-blog post alert**Last month, I was part of a Core Discussion at SXSW about ARGs and what...

Puppetmastering Behind-the-Scenes: Last...

Here are a couple more personal photos from Last Call Poker. Maureen McHugh (aka writer...

Jessica Rabbit Untooned

Everything you need to know about LOST in 4 Minutes 24 seconds

Yeah, so I’ve become mildly addicted to the PAIN casual game on the PS3, and this is one of...

Boyfriend proposes in game. And she said …

Batman shark attack. Yeah, I know.

July 18, 2001: First ARG post, before they...

How to live like a hamster

What would happen if I had spare time/money….

News of Virtual Magic Kingdom’s (VMK) end...

GQ’s Top Three Reasons to Watch BSG

Firefly on Blu Ray confirmed!

Webby Award Nominee: World Without Oil

Webby Award Nominations for Year Zero...

Looks like two 42E projects have been nominated and honoree’d for a 2008 Webby Award!...

Still Alive? She’s Free. Were we, while playing Portal,...

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Puppetmastering Behind-the-Scenes

Thought I’d start to periodically post little photo essays about some behind-the-scenes stuff...

I have returned

The weather was ok, the food was great, the scam artists abounded. But I had Omelette du Fromage,...

Mar

Obligatory "I'm away" post

Things may be quiet around here for the next week or so, as I’m on vacation in Beaumont sur...

“Battlestar Galactica” Top Ten List

Pop art prints for retro geeks

Six degrees of separation in instant...

Teasing Batman - Los Angeles Times

Homer Simpson Untooned

The Guild - Episode 8: Tipping Point Wow, interesting thumbnail there.

So, when you move into a new house, you’ll often find...

The Reality of Producing an Alternate Reality...

I finally found something to replace Adium (which I miss so...

Parallel Kingdom: first iPhone MMORPG using...

Newest Cloverfieldesque viral video. 1,111,934 votes in 3 days, and counting. Looks to be for the...

Japanese Baseball decides to shorten games to reduce...

My Alma Mater is Star Fleet Academy! AICN is reporting that...

Weighted companion cube cake is not a lie

Rock Band Keytar!?

Bat plane to spy for U.S. Army

ARGNet: Video Games and ARGs - What Can they...

Look what they left on the dashboard! (via...

St. Francis Dam 80 Years Ago: The worst civil engineering...