Bailey Anne Bravely

If you've never heard of Orisinal Games , you're missing out. The site has been around since 2000 and the artist, Ferry Halim , just keeps adding content. There's no schedule; the additions are random, but I just keep coming back. One commenter on the site's guestbook made the comparison to opening an old toy box. So true! I hadn't visited in years, and then I accidentally imported some old internet favorites, and there it was, sitting waiting to be clicked. I used to play these games all the time, and my very favorite used to be Bungee Bear . The game, like all others on the site, is beautifully crafted. Soft colors, pleasant music, and simple but original game mechanics add up to a really fun time. Now, the plot of Bungee Bear is this: you are a cute, hungry bear, and you are on a bridge just downriver from a waterfall, and below you in the river are delicious apples. You have a backpack and a bungee cord. How are you to get the apples? Jump off the bridge...

A custom ecard, because all the good ecard sites make you sign up for an account and/or pay. This is what you get when I come up with an idea on the day it needs to be completed; could be better.  For anyone interested in how I did it, PowerPoint 2010 and above lets you export a show as a video. (I think there are sneaky ways to do this with earlier versions as well.) So I set up the slides, put in the animations, added audio, rehearsed/recorded the slideshow timing, and then exported as a video. Anyone who makes videos frequently is probably cringing (Sorry Spence) but it got the job done. Audio is "An Awful Lot of Running" by Chameleon Circuit, used with permission of http://dftba.com . Check out their Music Video Program for more songs by more artists you can legally use in your own work. And to my brother Spencer, Happy Birthday! You are my best friend and I miss you! Have a super fantastic day!

Watch it, and then fund it. What is it? This is a movie by Sunao Katabuchi, the assistant director of Kiki's Delivery Service, which was by Hayao Miyazaki. As I have written before , I love love love Miyazaki movies. Here I am, being sucked into spending more money due to my fear of Miyazaki not making any more movies. But I have no regrets. This movie looks amazing. Why does it look amazing? For one, the background art is enough to justify the movie on its own. It's like watching a moving art gallery, with the paintings parading by in orderly rows. From what I have read of the plot, which you can read on the Kickstarter page , it's about two young girls, one of whom has an enormous imagination and likes to imagine vividly and on screen what her world was like a thousand years ago. The girls essentially time travel through imagination. How awesome is that? I am not an anime connoisseur by any means, but I mean to educate myself. This film was never able to b...