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08.21.08/13:21 just another wednesday
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On a less-creepy note, here's a thing I made the other day as an homage to Earthbound. That's all I've got for now. Cheers. 08.17.08/02:29 bbspot: the cutting edge of journalism Well, satirical journalism, anyway. BBspot.com is a geek news site run by Mr. Brian Briggs, and sometimes he's nice enough to put up my articles. Over the years, I've broken a few big news stories. Here are the highlights: [google maps: home helps you navigate in unfamiliar houses] [new ship can reach faster-than-light speeds] [mexico building fence to keep out immigrants] [sony to release ps4 this christmas] [bush unveils new social security plan] [supreme court bans violent video games] [war on terror ends in surrender] [war with north korea scheduled for next summer] 08.11.06/01:32 daikon warrior article You might remember a few days ago when I put up that random video showing scenes from Daikon Warrior. For those of you who want more information about the game and what it's all about, I wrote this little article. Go on, have a look-see...
08.11.06/01:27 some random stuff It might be a good time to get some site business out of the way. For those of you who were wondering, you can go find July in the archives. And that's all I have to say about that. Now it's time for a shout-out.
Hey Lisa! Congratulations on getting your Master's Degree. Don't let my jealousy cheapen the experience for you. No, really, just enjoy being a master. I'm content to just stay over here in the corner being a bachelor...
Also, I did some updating of the ol' resume to include most of the projects I've been doing in my spare time for the last few years. Might as well use 'em for something.
Last, but not least, the music page is now bearing some semblance of functionality again. The problem with the old music page was the hundreds of pages it linked to, all of them in the old format. So now it only links to the .mp3 files of the songs. As a bonus, to make up for the loss of functionality, I included the tentative tracklist for nocturne at the bottom, with a few rough demo versions of some of the songs. 08.7.06/19:01 daikon warrior gameplay video
08.06.08/02:14 new peachycomics sex FAQ Last year, we put up a little FAQ answering your sexual questions. Due to an influx of questions from curious internetters and the overwhelming response to the last one, there's a new peachycomics sex FAQ. Show us some love by clicking below.
08.1.08/22:37 the nexus sketch In 1494, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni was commissioned by the church of St. Dominic to carve a series of small statues. Contrary to the modern image of solitary geniuses working sleepless nights in the light of candles, these kinds of jobs often included friends and rubberneckers, eager to engage in heated debates while the artist (the only one with a paying job) carried on his work.
Michelangelo's brother Renzo di Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni was an artist as well, though he was by no means renowned and was largely forgotten to history due to his unfortunate condition. Renzo was what we refer to today as an 'idiot savant.' Judging from family letters and church documents, modern historians theorize that he was autistic. Michelangelo often took his younger brother with him when he travelled, and this trip to St. Dominic was no exception.
While the Renaissance Man chiseled away, a few of his troublemaker compatriots decided to play a prank on Renzo. They forced him to drink a concoction which may have contained hallucinogenic mushrooms, at the time a popular drug in Florentine culture. They watched Renzo stagger around like an idiot for a while and eventually went home. Michelangelo worked himself to sleep next to his statues.
In the morning, Renzo was found putting the finishing touches on a wall panel he had painted with tools and paint he'd pilfered from his brother's effects. His 'idiot savant' talent was being able to photographically reproduce anything he'd seen once. What he painted was a thing so shocking that the Archbishop was notified, and in turn, Pope Innocent II was summoned to view the panel.
The Pope ordered that the painting be bricked over, and records indicate that less than a week later he died in a manner his faith deemed verboten: suicide.
The painting was lost for over 300 years, until, during a renovation in 1841, the painting was rediscovered and partially restored. Simon Redfern, then a student visiting from Oxford, was struck by the force of the imagery of the panel and made a detailed sketch of the scene contained in the painting. Three days later, a fire broke out in the church and the panel was damaged beyond repair or recognition.
Redfern travelled across Europe, from Berlin to Paris, trying in vain to dredge up information about the panel, learning only what has already been stated above. He showed the sketch to priests, rabbis, and scholars, but upon seeing the sketch, the viewer would immediately become uneasy and send him away.
In 1842, Redfern's drowned body was found in the Thames, the authorities reluctantly ruling his death a suicide due to a lack of concrete evidence of foul play. His sketch of Renzo's panel disappeared for 120 years, turning up in a home in Venice when an international corporation dealing in rare instruments sent an agent to smash open a wall in the search for a missing Stradivarius. The sketch was found in the lining of the instrument's case.
The sketch depicts a battle between God and Satan. God is controversially depicted as a little boy gazing intently at an anthill, and the devil is represented by a muscular man with an evil sneer, trying in vain to slice the little boy in half but ending up with his sword wedged in a tree, and neither possess any of the supernatural embellishments common to the genre. The problem with both the sketch and the original panel was this: upon seeing the image, the viewer was presented with an indisputable proof of the existence of God.
Catholic scholars maintain that the infinite power of the Lord, and therefore his infinite recognizability, allowed the image to maintain its potency despite passing through the mind of Renzo, his brush, and Redfern's pen. Furthermore, these same scholars believe that the Pope, realizing that an absolute proof of God would destroy the 'faith' required by his religion, had no choice but to order the painting sealed off. Outsiders speculate that this same 'proof' filled him with such guilt at his own Holy indiscretions that his own life became too burdensome for him.
Upon its discovery, the 'Nexus Sketch' was sold at a private auction, going for 7.2 million pounds. It has not been seen since. |
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Hey,
internetters, what's shaking? I've been writing articles and playing
around with photoshop and watching the Olympics. I don't usually get
into them, but for some reason I'm finding them compelling this time
around. Must be that Bolt guy and his crazy-mad skills and charisma.
Not to mention the nymphic appeal of those little gymnast girls.
