The temperence of the water, duh.

(found in a WA rain forest)

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Really cool video/experiment from Radiohead using no lights or cameras, just data points mapped using multiple lasers and a "light scanner." You can even download the actual data from Google Code and create your own visualizations (providing you are a nerd and have the time). You can also explore the data visualization in a 3D environment here. Here's the video:

Most of Portland Studios was at the midnight opening of WALL-E last night and I for one was blown away. Once again Pixar has demonstrated that near perfection in art, technology and storytelling is an achievable goal. There are so many great aspects of this film but I'll just highlight one that stood out to me: the color scheme.

Pixar's color schemes are always amazing. They find the perfect balance between pleasing and realistic, subtle yet emotional. WALL-E's palette is no different. Below I've create what I feel is a representative of the movies color mood:

You can download this color scheme on Adobe Kuler here

Are you a hip-hop loving gansta? Do you like to play chess in you free time?

Well if you answered yes to both of the above question be sure to check out wuchess.com. It's an online community for hip-hop loving chess players just like you. For rizzle.

Also, check out the Hip-Hop Chess Federation for shizzle.

On a side not, the game playing functionality looks like a really well-done Adobe Flex application.

After several grueling nights of hard labor, we've officially launched our Post Apocalyptic Robot Game (PARG) onto the interweb. It's certainly not bad for the time frame that we launched it in... about a week of after-hours "work." The environment and most of the character artwork is by Justin Gerard. The "Boss Bot" is compliments of Cory Godbey and other bot designs we're contributed by Zach Franzen, Hallie Gillett. The site design is by Matt Mantooth and the rock-your-face-off theme music is by Ben Kammer. It was cool to see all of the contributions come together into one solid product. It was also a pretty good development challenge. This is probably one of the most truly-collaborative projects we've ever worked on. Now we just need to get someone to pay us to do this! And oh yeah, here's the link: Play Parg!

Next Friday, you, yes you, will be called upon to defend the earth from the upcoming "robocalpyse."

At Portland Studios, we are all about productivity and "bizzness" but between all the productivity and insane profit-margins myself, Justin Gerard, Cory Godbey and a few others have been working on an apocalyptic-robot-themed flash game. It's going to be epic.

Here's a little of the flash motion based on a sample robot from Justin (click to explode):

And you also may very well end up being attacked by Cory Godbey's DOOM BRINGER ULTRA ULTRA 

For more details on next Friday's post, be sure to check the Portland Blog.

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Typeracer is an online typing game that pits you against other online users in a words-per-minute typing race. After the "race" it shows an ad for the book or movie that you were typing from. Brilliant.

http://play.typeracer.com/