The Daily Achievement

For six months in 2012 and 2013, I posted something I made every day. Now I'd like to do bigger projects rather than bite-sized content. So I'm no longer posting daily, but I'm trying to put in the time to work on something creative each day. I made everything here, but I link and reblog at my other tumblelog, lessantisocial.

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Based on a blog entry by Colin Bell: http://colinbell.photography/star-wars-at-thirlmere/

Music by Víctor Hugo Morales: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8-UNrhqF0I

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I’ve been experimenting with two pieces of free software that examine video files for good looping points for animated GIFs. I’ll be doing a video about these tools in the future, but I couldn’t wait to share some of the results.

The outcome of these tools on different types of movie is very variable. Anime, unsurprisingly, works great, but there aren’t many loops to be found in live action films that keep the camera moving. But I love these results from 1971′s Duel.

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Hello, Internet. I made this for you.

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Not sure if this thing I made is a taco or a burrito... I’m not very Texically Mexically lexically literate.

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Weeks of research and months of editing went into this: it turned into a massive undertaking. But I’m very pleased with the end result: a 13-minute documentary about the Might and Magic games, and the rise and fall of New World Computing.

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This is barely even a thing yet, but I did throw together this placeholder website as a prelude to a total redesign of trioptimum.co.uk.

For the full thing, I'm trying to study and absorb some of the rules of Swiss design. I want it to look like a page from a beautiful 1970s product catalogue lying open on a wooden desk. I have a suspicion that this might be the worst idea anyone's ever had for a website.

I'm also trying to get trioptimum.uk registered (matching my YouTube username) but keep tripping over Nominet's WHOIS verification step. The battle continues.

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Draft script for a video I want to make on the Might and Magic series: the games, and the stories of their creation. Been researching this off and on for weeks. At some point soon I'm going to have to start making the damn thing.

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This video isn't ready to show off yet, but I think it might be fun.

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My other ongoing YouTube project is making weekly Let's Play Geoguessr videos. Five rounds, two minutes per round, with rambling commentary. This one is the latest, and here's a link to the playlist.

(If you haven't played Geoguessr, it's a free online game that drops you into a random Google Street View somewhere in the world, and you have to look for clues to where you are, and drop a pin on the map. Closer means more points. If you're fortunate enough that the Earth is your place of residence, you should definitely play it.)

New episodes on Wednesdays.

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I'm ten episodes into Razing the Baa, which will probably be a very lengthy Let's Play of New World Computing's 1998 action RPG Might and Magic VI.

(Embedded here is the first part, so—because it's the first Let's Play I've made—it's also the worst, both in terms of technical quality and commentary. I'm learning as I go, which was kind of the idea, but it does make the older efforts a bit embarrassing...)

Full playlist here. New episodes on Sundays.

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I've been bad

...at updating this Tumblr. But I've been uncharacteristically unsucky at the making of stuff lately. I'll link some of it up in the next few posts.

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Just a fun interpretation born on a bus ride.

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Romsdal, Norway. August 2013.

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I don't know why people describe Saga Noren as an odd character. Her behaviour in all social situations is completely normal.

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A few evenings' play with POVRay and After Effects.