Beyond Occident

It’s that time of year! Now is when we all make a big list of things we want to do, tell everyone about them and then fail in spectacular fashion a month or two after New Years. But hey, who am I to hate on tradition?

1. Beat every Zelda game I own for the Gamecube. That would be Ocarina of Time, Windwaker and Twilight Princess. Somehow, I haven’t beaten any of these yet I’ve played them millions of times. How sad.

2. Make a fantastical website. Domain was purchased. Now we just have to build a sweet looking blog.

3. Became a master Photoshop ninja (and by Photoshop, I mean Gimp, because ya know, I can’t afford Photoshop).

Sometime around me coming home from school for winter break, something terrible happened. It began slowly, infiltrating sneakily, like a ninja sneaking up for a kill. My Halo 3 skillz were gone. For twenty days, I kept fighting however, and I still did good every once in awhile, yet it seemed overwhelmingly disappointing.

So, since about a week ago, I put down the controller and didn’t play. Ironically, right after I did this, the Xbox Live servers seemingly went through hell and just recently they were up running correctly again. But anywho, I took a break. And it is glorious. It was starting to get stale playing which may have contributed to my losses. But now, I’m ready to return.

And just to prove it, here is a game describing the depths to which I fell.

Just found this story over on the Consuming Louisville blog. The Speed Art Museum has commissioned Argentinean artist Flavia Da Rin to create 10 billboards to cover Louisville. Flavia Da Rin uses photoshop to create fantasy type artwork that is “enchanting and disquieting”.

What is even cooler about this is that the Speed Museum has integrated a type of social contest into it.  When you find a billboard you can text the keyword that appears on it to the Speed Museum to unlock the billboards on the internet. Then once you find all ten, you can enter a contest to get your own work on a billboard by the Speed Museum around March. I’ll be keeping an eye out for them when I head back down to Louisville next week.