Let’s Play Find The Irony
Jul 16, 2008
Posterchild’s Mario Block Art
Life can sometimes feel like your in a damn video game. Dodging traffic, bicyclists, tourists who come to a dead stop in the middle of the block, just surviving the day can make one feel as if they just beat Contra. Bringing the video game feel a little closer to reality is street artist POSTERCHILD, who has been putting up Mario Blocks for years (even having the bomb squad called in a time or two). So next time you are walking down the street and feeling like you can’t make it, just look up and you might see a 1up waiting for you.
Jul 10, 2008
Wii Graff
Wii is bringing gaming to the next level and if this controller makes it into production, it’ll be all over! I had a blast battling and bombing my way through the PS2 version of Mark Ecko’s Getting Up, but this spray can remote control, designed by German student Martin Lihs, as his thesis project at Bauhaus University, would have killed it!
Wait a minute. Screw this thing. Go out and do some real wreck!
Read more on Complex magazines blog.
Filed Under: Games, Graffiti, Hip Hop, Street Art, Nintendo, Bleeding Edge, Culture, Useful, Gadgets, Technology, Design
Jun 7, 2008
Guitar Hero World Tour
The trailer for the next generation Guitar Hero has just been released and the virtual music gaming world is getting more cut throat. After Rock Band took the blueprint for Guitar Hero and added drums and a mic, Guitar Hero had no choice but to come back and add the same accessories to their model. With the addition of plastic symbols and what appears to be a bass drum GH is claiming to have the “most realistic drums” in their latest release, an idea that has me freaking out. If these games get any more realistic I might find myself playing real instruments! And that just wouldn’t be cool at all! I am already having a problem with needing friends to play with. I liked it when my video games let me stay at home, alone and in the dark. Who knows two other people to start a fake band with anyway?!?!
Guitar Hero World Tour will be available this October for the PS2, PS3, XBox 360 and Nintendo Wii. You can pre-order yours now at GameStop.com
While I am on the Guitar Hero/Rock Band wars, let me predict here and now that the next Rock Band release will include keyboards!
May 28, 2008
Mass Appeal Stops The Presses
The rumors are true, Mass Appeal magazine is done. The one time graffiti magazine turned urban lifestyle guide is being pulled from production, so the company can focus on their more profitable assets, namely Miss Behave magazine and Colossal Media. The plan is to continue the website and possibly sell the magazine to another publisher, so who knows maybe it will be reborn again in the future. While I have still be picking up issues of the mag whenever a new issue is available, it really has lost the real street edge that it once had, going the way of lame blinged out cornyness. Oh well, not reading the mag will give me more time to focus on drinking! Besides, I can still watch the Gangstarr version of Mass Appeal.
Filed Under: Games, NYC, Graffiti, Hip Hop, Street Art, Television, Toys, Film, Culture, Blogs, Music, Gadgets, Fashion
May 15, 2008
Video Games And Hookers
I knew I was right when I posted about kids not wanting to do anything except play video games…
A 13 year old from Texas who stole his Dad’s credit card and ordered two hookers from an escort agency, has today been convicted of fraud and given a three year community order.Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father’s existing credit card company, and took his friends on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in playing “Halo” on an Xbox with a couple of hookers in a Texas motel.
The credit card company involved said it was regular practice to send extra credit cards out as long as all security questions are answered.
The escort girls who were released without charge, told the arresting officers something was up when the kids said they would rather play Xbox than get down to business.
Police said they were alerted to the motel by a concerned delivery clerk, whom after delivering supplies of Dr Pepper, Fritos and Oreos had been asked by the kids where they could score some chicks and were willing to pay. They explained they had just made a big score at a “World of Warcraft” tournament and wanted to get some relaxation. On noting the boys age the delivery clerk informed the authorities.
When police arrived at the motel they found $3,000 in cash, numerous electronic gadgets, an Xbox video console with numerous games, and the two local escort girls.
Ralph had reportedly told police that his father wouldn’t mind, as it was his birthday last week and he had forgot to get him a present. The father, a lawyer said he had been too busy, but would take him on a surprise trip to Disneyland instead.
Asked why he ordered two escorts, Ralph said he thought it was the thing to do when you win a “World of Warcraft” tournament. They told the suspicious working girls they were people of restricted growth working with a traveling circus, and as State law does not allow those with disabilities to be discriminated against they had no right to refuse them. The $1,000 a night girls sensing something up played “Halo” on the Xbox with the kids, instead of selling their sexual services.
Ralph’s ambition is to one day become a politician.
Via: [money.co.uk]
May 12, 2008
