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This is the personal blog for the maker of the Monster Tubulum.  The section this link is pointing to is the FAQ's for people who want to build their own PVC instruments.

Ogilvy & Mather are no amateurs when it comes to Scrabble. They may not play the game, but they sure know how to promote it. The prestigious advertising and marketing agency has created several videocommercials for Mattel, not to mention over 60 amazing print adverts that are funny, hip and sometimes salaciously naughty.

The Netherlands are a hotbed of indie game development, which seems appropriate for such a brilliant and eccentric little nation. Two man Dutch indie developer Vlambeer have found themselves in the news more often than most companies of their size, thanks to two great games and a third on the way.

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Hideo Kojima is one of the biggest names in Japanese game design. He's the man behind every Metal Gear game, each of which has been beautiful but divisive. He's an auteur, a rarity in AAA game design, managing business, design, and programming for Kojima Productions. Last week he made a rare public appearance at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, which contains the school's video game programs, and gave a 90-minute talk about his career, influences, and the specifics of his new Fox game...

I'll be putting up a real welcome post along with a quick project idea in a couple of hours, but if you managed to navigate to here before that time, I just want to say thanks for coming and wish that you return in a few hours.

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One of the things that has always bugged me while working with PVC is that it is, as it is presently produced, a poison.  Well, OK, it's not, but it contains a lot of poisons.  Phthalates are plasticizing agents that are super toxic, and these people are working to phase them out.  PVC also, in its present form, contains lead.  Certain chemists are learning how to use stabilized zinc and calcium instead.  Also, chemists are learning how to synthesize the vinyl chloride monomer from HEMP!  That...

University video game design programs have been spreading like wildfire around the world over the last ten years. They allow students, researchers and game developers to work on their craft in an academic environment away from the harsh realities of the market, and have led to some interesting products like Fl0w from USC and Ulitsa Dimitrova from Germany. Both games take on topics not often addressed in mainstream games and do so in simple, poignant ways that aim to influence the rest of the...

Japan has a tendency to produce things that boggle the Western mind. Its citizens are already responsible for without a question the weirdest music video in the history of the medium. With that said, here is a video reenactment of several Pokemon (Pocket Monster in Japan) games released by Japanese performance art troupe Kusarine Project: