Science, Mad. And some movies.
MakingRoom is a magazine about the process, intention and results of image-making. This is our first issue and we’ll be publishing online issues on a quarterly schedule. We will also be releasing an original print issue each year so watch for details on that in the coming months.
Web link of note: Making Room
(At http://www.makingroom.com/)
A high-end DVD case “solution” which lets you make very pretty DVD cases for disc presentation.
We are professional designers who were unsatisfied with the materials available for packaging our DVDs and CDs. We created Jewelboxing to allow individuals to produce a short-run of high-end packages and to give them the freedom to concentrate on the most important part of the job, the creative. We’ve chosen the Super Jewel Boxâ„¢ King and Standard cases, created complementary components of the highest quality and made precise design templates for virtually all major design and publishing software programs.
Web link of note: Jewelboxing
(At http://www.jewelboxing.com/)
I was playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and “met” the character Wu Zhi “Woozie” Mu. This is an animated character, with a human actor’s voice playing during the cutscenes. But Woozie’s voice sounded odd to me… not really credible as a Triad (“Chinese mafia”) leader.
For one thing, he sounds way too young to be a leader- maybe this is intentional. Also… he has no accent. Actually, he has a very slight accent, but it isn’t like anything I’ve heard from any of my Chinese or Chinese-American friends. The person he sounds most like to me is documentarian John Neely, who I happen to know is half Japanese. Neely does not have an accent.
Turns out the voice actor is Japanese. This is my pet peeve, even when it turns out in favor of Japanese-Americans- ALL LOOK SAME. Please directors, if the character is Chinese, use a real Chinese American voice actor. But was I just lucky? Or is there something subtle there I am registering?
Racist! Or… connoisseur?A whole site for iPod guides. I downloaded the torrent for the SXSW sampler there. Cool!
Web link of note: Citizen Pod
(At http://citizenpod.com/)