AWESOMECON

I saw this over on Bruce Sterling’s Wired blog the other day.  Truly stunning work.  It’s the kind of art, vision and talent that just really resonates with you.  It also reminded me of Scott Pilgrim, which I also love.

OH… and watch it in HD, seriously.

I heard about Minecraft a few days ago due to a Penny Arcade Comic.  Then I saw this video… very, very funny tutorial on how not to build a custom house in the game.

How can you not love keyboard cat?  He is just awesome.

[via @joestump and @dburka]

When Monty Python and Halo Machinima get mashed up.  Awesome things happen.

[via yes but no but yes]

If you follow Daft Punk at all and/or played Little Big Planet then this will rock your socks off:

With the growth of control and interactivity available via video games, the world of Machinima is really taking off.  Games like Little Big Planet are designed with user content generation in mind and its amazing to see how it is being adapted and expanded by the user community.

Machinima, as defined via Wikipedia:

Machinima (pronounced /məˈʃiːnɨmə/ or /məˈʃɪnɨmə/) is the use of real-time three-dimensional (3-D) graphics rendering engines to generate computer animation. The term also refers to works that incorporate this animation technique. Machinima-based artists, sometimes called machinimists or machinimators, often use graphics engines from video games, a practice that arose from the animated software introductions of the 1980s demoscene, Disney Interactive Studios‘ 1992 computer game Stunt Island, and 1990s recordings of gameplay in first-person shooter (FPS) video games, such as id Software’s Doom and Quake.

[via @mesh]

By now, pretty much most meme-aholics have heard the vocal isolation track of Van Halen’s “Running with the Devil” featuring the crazed wails, screams, whistles and OH YEAH’s of David Lee Roth.  The song was included on the seminal 1978 release of Van Halen’s self-titled debut. Due to the release date and the extreme rock qualities of the album, this clearly makes the album “Van Halen” Classic Rock.

Jump ahead to 1979, barely a year later, another great is born.  Black and white line graphics represent your ship as it blasts and drifts through monstrous rocks in the darkness of deep space.  Asteroids is considered by many to be one of the great games of the past arcade mania, a legend that still lives in our hearts today.  Truly a Classic game.

Due the close proximity of time, there is a good chance that many Asteroids players listend to “Running with the Devil” while blasting rocks into smaller and smaller bits, while difting, ever drifting.  Thanks to the boyz/girlz at shitbagz, you can now play Assteriodz, The Diamond Dave Edition featuring Van Halen.  A true classic paring, like fine wine and cheese.  If the wine is a Flash casual game and cheese is the over the top stylings of Diamond Dave.  Good times.

[via Ryan]