As you might have guessed, I’m a WoW player, and for better or for worse, I find it kind of awesome that someone was able to use Blizzard’s meshes and skins to do fully original animation. Check it out, and watch in High Def.
The catchy J-pop song is “Hide & Seek” by Namie Amuro. Enjoy!
It fascinates me to observe the different ways people use the internet. I tend to shy away form social networking sites, yet some of my friends are twitterholics. Some people use a blog as a diary for their very most intimate thoughts, I use a blog for AWESOME.
In keeping with that, I thought I would pull some content from the emails that go back and forth between my father and his cousins, whose proclivities for sharing things they feel are awesome are, actually oddly parallel with mine. Only difference is that they send huge email attachments of whatever the awesome is. So I proudly present the Dadpost™, a new feature highlighting the DADAWESOMEST internet finds.
Fist up, a little musical selection.
Love ya, Dad!
…and buy metric crap tons of stuff to resell to you that you never knew you would ever need. This is Ax-Man, the coolest ever store that has ever existed…ever. And they just built one 2 minutes away from my house. Remember, buy 12, and the 13th is free!
…Rube Goldberg and The Blue Man Group had a love child? This is the answer right here…
Even though this is only a mockup of the original Airwolf, just imagine parking this thing in your driveway….
I need one of these for my daily commute…
This is an interesting piece. Someone dubbed their guitar “skills” over the ineffable Eric Clapton, making him seem like a total spazz. Watching this makes me feel better about my so-so performances of David Bowie songs on Guitar Hero. But it gets at a deeper issue. In the light of the “Legends of Rock” Expansion (or Expanchkin, as I like to say) for GH2, where are the blues songs, where are the 12-string songs? These too, are Strong Guitar Mojo. Given the GH controller, a squeaky plastic ukulele (thank you Yahtzee), only certain kinds of guitarwork are possible. Here are some reasons that Guitar Hero should have always been called Standard Rock Number Hero:
Leo Kottke:
Carlos Montoya:
Buckethead: Who is a spazz at the beginning but cooks with gasoline in the middle, where he’s two-handing, at about 2:15.
I would have included some David Gilmour, but I couldn’t find any good close ups of him playing.
As usual, cabin fever hits me pretty hard this time of year, and what’s worse, so does insomnia. What’s a guy to do with all those waking hours? You can only surf the interwebs for pron and gank MMORPG newbs for so long. Therefore, I’ve been finding little “projects” that I’m able to do within the comfort of Fort Awesome. And thus these tactical key fobs and zipper pulls were born.
