This picture sums up my personal highlight of this week.
This week we have seen rioting in London, legal wrangling in the gaming world and I managed to find a needle in a haystack. This weeks tortoises have been the following:
A little commentary on Bethesda’s trademark action in Trademark Trolls: Scrolls and Bethesda v Mojang. (I realise that looks like [Scrolls and Bethesda] v [Mojang] now but is actually meant [Scrolls] and [Bethesda v Mojang]. Some inadvertent eats shoots and leaves stuff there.)
My most popular post to date with The Return of the Cat, which makes sense because it’s about a cat and this is the internet. I am seriously considering becoming a cat blogger (as in somebody who blogs about cats, not a cat who blogs).
Concern over the way that the media is trying to classify Technology as a Scapegoat with their remarks about how it was largely orchestrated through Twitter.
The aggravating nature of requiring Constant Internet Connections for Gaming and just how far the internet has come for this to be viable.
Another Tortoise Butler film with Portal 2 Music Video – Exile Vilify By The National in which highly talented people achieve deserted London shots by getting up at stupid ‘o clock, film high quality video clips in a short space of time, and I make posters and buildings that aren’t there in Photoshop.
A growing trend in iOS games for Delayed Gameplay Games which tell you when you can play and not the other way around (now with a wonderful comment from someone who I can tell has been deeply wounded by this sort of game).
This week’s iPad/iPhone Game: Dream Track Nation, a simple time trial racer with buckets of charm.
We finish the week on two posts about how to make comics, with How to Make Comics Part 1 making soft reassuring noises that you don’t need a full blown graphic design studio and How to Make Comics Part 2 blowing simplicity out of the water by talking about my method of colouring things in using Photoshop.
That’s all for this week. I hope you’ve had as productive and satisfying week as I have and have thoroughly enjoyed the weekend as much as I’m hoping to, as I am writing this on Saturday morning (which means I’m communicating with the future I suppose). Also just want to give a small self indulgent plug, but I have now passed all of my NCTJ exams and am officially fully qualified as a journalist, so if you want to employ me for a commission or an actual job, drop me a line at davidDOTofDOThingATgmailDOTcom and we can talk!
-Ding
