The Simpsons’ Planet of the Apes Musical: An Oral History
13 July 2017
I love you, Dr. Zauis.
- filed under oral history, planet of the apes, simpsons
Wreddit loves Rassler
13 July 2017
Yesterday I posted my game, Rassler, to the pro wrestling subreddit /r/SquaredCircle. They love it? It seems like they love it. I don’t know how to handle feedback this positive.
- filed under pro wrestling, reddit, stuff I made, video games
The Bone Mother
10 July 2017
Amazon’s shipping robot has informed me that David Demchuk’s book, The Bone Mother, has shipped. I’m looking forward to it: Three neighboring villages on the Ukrainian/Romanian border are the final refuge for the last of the mythical creatures of Eastern Europe. Now, on the eve of the war that may eradicate their kind—and with the […]
- filed under books, friends and enemies, horror
Latest experiments reveal AI is still terrible at naming paint colors
10 July 2017
Such classics as Bleedwood, Spiced Rope, Bull Cream, Dorky Brown, Drimple, and Dad. Many more at the link.
- filed under generative art, machine learning, paint
TransProse
10 July 2017
Creating music from text: Using natural language processing, TransProse reads in text and determines densities of eight different emotions (joy, sadness, anger, disgust, anticipation, surprise, trust, and fear) and two different states (positive or negative) throughout the novel. The musical piece chronologically follows the novel. It uses the emotion density data to determine the tempo, […]
- filed under generative art, literature, music
Matt Gemmell on the iPad and It’s Failures as a “Laptop Replacement”
29 June 2017
So you want to potentially not use a laptop anymore, but you also want a computer that does all the same things as a laptop, in pretty much the same way. In which case, I think the computer you’re looking for is a laptop. Incredible burn on every tech journalist who has written this.
- filed under ipad, journalism
Hacker Behind Massive Ransomware Outbreak Can’t Get Emails from Victims Who Paid
27 June 2017
A very modern situation: Company does spin control without considering the ramifications, ends up screwing over the already victimized: A German email provider has closed the account of a hacker behind the new ransomware outbreak, meaning victims can’t get decryption keys. The exploit, unofficially named Petya, uses the same vector as WannaCry.
- filed under ransomware, security
Kill sticky headers
27 June 2017
Like most web trends intended to increase “engagement” (nobody knows what this actually means), sticky bars are overused and poorly used. Kill ’em all with this bookmarklet.
- filed under bookmarklet, web design, web development
Radio Garden
26 June 2017
Point at a spot on the globe, and hear their radio.
A beginner’s guide to Dungeon Synth
23 June 2017
Dirge magazine: What I Like About Dungeon Synth is, primarily, the music and the wide range of emotions it encompasses; the bombast and the subtlety, the melancholy and the fury, the epic and the transient. It blends genres that are dear to my heart, from medieval airs to black metal malevolence, into something that is […]
- filed under music
Hello There
My name is Phil Nelson and I make beautiful objects for a troubled world. I'm a designer / developer / writer / director / editor / narrator at Occipital.
Stuff I Make
- My games on itch.io, a series of retro-inspired pay-what-you-want games I made.
- Liblr, like Mad Libs but for Twitter.
- Structure Sensor, a mobile 3D sensor that works great with iOS.
- 6 Hour Projects, a series of small, varyingly successful, experiments.