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Comments from the day-to-day work.

Control Your Animations from the Beach

It’s an ordinary, boring IT thing to control a computer remotely. But when each of three terminal windows is hooked up to a 173-inch monitor, it becomes as nifty as PcAnywhere in 1993. ... Read more
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Glue Time

At this point, having 97% of the media I need, what remains is a lot of glue work. I noticed with my schedule that I’m probably a few weeks behind where I wanted to be, so I don’t ... Read more
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The Power of Negative Thinking

I’ve been thinking of all the things that could fuck me over for Machine Horror House. The main one up until last week was contractors not finishing their work on time. But it turns out all ... Read more
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K-Mart Fancy

If you ever use a place like Vistaprint to churn up some quick business cards, don’t pay the extra ten bucks to get glossy card stock. It looks “fancy”. Like “fancy” ... Read more
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Robot song from Fez composer.

Some months back I was playing Fez, which is this fantastic indie game for XBox. It’s got ingenious retro-style graphics that pretend to be two dimensional, yet are actually 3D. Much in the ... Read more
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The Twelve-Foot Network.

I’ve been averaging about 12 hours each day on Machine Horror House. And yesterday, I woke up just hating it. So I spent just about all of yesterday playing XBox and watching episodes of ... Read more
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Three Projectors, Three Screens.

After a sweaty weekend, I got the screens and projectors up for the See-Stage. And I built a couple of ceiling shelves to tuck some servers into. The shelves were crazy hard to install. I feel ... Read more
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Deep Inside the Internet…

…there is this guy called “Mapbot” that monitors all of your comings and goings. Sebastian Caceres sent me this awesome background today. Mapbot on the left is missing eyes, ... Read more
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Maximum Mess

The Construction Zone started off neatly confined to the far side of the studio. But it has gradually sprawled out like blackberry bushes as I’ve needed more space to deal with the bulky ... Read more
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Best Places to Hide for Stealing Babies

Bettina and I are having a conversation on the best places for a babystealing robot to hide in a park. She has provided me a rough background layout, and I’ve marked out a few good spots ... Read more
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