Binary Bonsai

Greetings program.

Welp, today was a good day. Actually let me start from the beginning. Last night I went down to Edinburgh to attend the opening of the Game On exhibition down there. It was in London earlier, but I was in Denmark at the time, so I couldn’t go. Anyway, we got caught in traffic (a flying Delorean would’ve done wonders there!), so we got there half an hour late, just in time to miss the various speeches and stuff that actually opened the exhibition. Figures that we (me, Jason and Karl, the guys I worked on an educational video about the games industry with) were mentioned and thanked during that half hour… My 15 seconds of fame and I miss it ;).

Anyway, the exhibition kicked ass, all the old games are there, and you can play pretty much all of them (with the bitter exception of one old Star Wars arcade game, you know the one I’m talking about. Wireframe Deathstar trench and all… ah the memories). If you’re in the UK, I can only recommend you go and see it if you like games.

After that we went out for a pint or two in Edinburgh and took the train home (tickets were 12.50£! I feel violated!). I had course work for today, but I couldn’t be bothered to stay up all night, so I just went to bed thinking I’d fix it today.

And I did :). Just in time for the deadline even… of course 10 minutes after handing it in I found out that the deadline had been moved to Monday… DOH!! Anyway, we’ll see how it goes. Basically what I did was that I tried to prove that the equation for a circle (x² + y² = r²) is not only art, but also one of the most pure and perfect pieces of art there is :) … I know, I know. It requires the essay that comes with the circle to really make sense.

Also, I’ve been doing a little bit of Photoshop painting again, and although it’s not done yet I thought I’d just slide this in as well. It’s a no reference painting, done in one layer with PS7. I’m still working on everything but the face itself, although even that I’m not sure of. The eyes are bit out of sync, so I’m considering whether or not to move one of them (probably the top one). Oh, and I just verified that my scanner is broken… dammit. I’ve had no luck with hardware the last month, lemme tell you!