Andrew Hayward has a nice write up of Steph Thirion’s Faraway. We gave Faraway the “Best in Show” prize at Fantastic Arcade this year and it was deserved- the game is elegant and minimalistic enough that it seems like one of the first real classics of touch gaming, a game that could potentially be iconic to the platform.
Hands-On With Faraway, the Charming iOS Constellation-Building Game | Mac|Life.
Engadget reports that one of Daphne Oram‘s long lost proto-synthesizers has been found in a barn in France, and helpfully points us to a neat Oramics iPhone app.
Paddy Johnson did an interview with all around awesome guy Paul Slocum about his great Sk1-style iPhone sampler, Sir Sampleton (She’s mostly jazzed about the hilarious commercial that Paul, John Michael Boling and Javier Morales did for the app. Me too- I love the 80′s rainbow Apple logo with “APP STORE” in big yellow block letters next to it.)
Sir Sampleton: An Interview with Paul Slocum and John Michael Boling.
butterflies drinking the tears of a Yellow Spotted River turtle in the Amazon. It is believed the salty liquid is needed to help them produce. The endangered yellow-spotted river turtle cannot easily brush the salty liquid away, while the insects need sodium in its diet. In addition to sodium, tears also contain proteins that could represent a high-quality resource throughout the year.
Photo credit: Jeff Cremer
Meiko Kaji
Stalker (1979) - Andrei Tarkovsky
the ritual is complete
