Ninja September 25th, 2009
36 skateboarders + glowing geometric hats + empty San Francisco streets = human Tetris fun
Via freebord
Strukt Design Studio + blank walls at Büro Hirzberger + projectors = digital wallpaper
Via dvice
Related postsNinja September 17th, 2009
Kent-based band, It Hugs Back, reminds me a tad of My Bloody Valentine and Yo La Tengo with their experimental feedback and dreamy guitar sounds. But what really caught my eye is their Tetris-inspired music video for their song, Now + Again.
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Ninja December 29th, 2008
Penguin is a Tetris addict and has worn out the buttons on his Nintendo DS
Photos by Justin Sachtleben via sleeps to dream
Related postsPenguin October 16th, 2008
I’ve been really stressed out since coming back from LA. Part of it was because I had an essay due on Tuesday. I started working on it but didn’t make much headway.
Class came and it still wasn’t done. But before that, I decided that I was going to hand it in late. Wednesday came and gone and although I made a little more progress, I don’t even have what can be called a first draft.
Right before I typed this, I played a little Tetris DS before sleeping. CPU lvl 5 thoroughly kicked my butt. And that’s when I realized what was really stressing me out. I was afraid to fail.
Not in the grade sense of the word, but fail myself. I set myself up to be amazing. I have to get the A. I have to try really hard. And in that, I lost sight of everything and stressed myself out. I had frozen in panic.
So instead of moving forward and just doing it, I ended up doing nothing.
This is the same lesson we sometimes have to learn as filmmakers or artists. We’re so caught up in needing our work to be perfect, in being amazing, that we set ourselves up to fail by not meeting those expectations. And we’ve been trained for 18+ years of our lives that it’s NOT okay to fail. When in reality, it is.
It’s okay to fail.
I look back at some of the stuff I put out and I know it’s not the best. But there was something authentic about it. Instead of just talking about doing something, I did it. And that’s a success.
Doing nothing is the failure.
Shoot that short film, write that book, draw what you enjoy, do something, anything! Because not doing anything would be a tragedy.
Now I can sleep.
-Penguin
Related postsPenguin April 25th, 2008
What if they made a live action Tetris movie? It would be amazing, that’s what! Here’s a taste of one possibility.
-Penguin
Related postsPenguin January 7th, 2008
This is a crazy video where they use people as Tetris pieces. All the sound effects are made by voices too! It’s really cute.
- Penguin
Related postsPenguin January 1st, 2008
Unlike Ninja’s Russian building Tetris, this one isn’t manually done. Instead, they actually wired up tons of lights to a receiver so they could control it with their cell phones. That’s right, the phone is the wireless controller and the building is the screen. It’s awesome.
Enjoy!
- Penguin
Related postsPenguin November 25th, 2007
Performance art meets Tetris. Not as technically difficult as Ninja’s Tetris post, but the geek factor is higher. Enjoy!
-Penguin
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