How To: Suck Less at Photoshop
Lifehacker posted this last week, but it’s worth mentioning thatYou Suck at Photoshop is what web tutorialsshould be like - instructional, informative and utterly deranged.
The Friday Game - Gunroar
Decided to start posting details of a game every weekend in an attempt to up my blogging ratio. First up is the sublime Japanese shoot-em-up Gunroar, which manages to flood the screen with more enemy bullets than any other game I’ve ever seen. Survival becomes a sort of art of twitch zen and it’s easy to become mesmerized by the whole thing. This is due in no small part to the graphics, which to me are exactly what I thought games would look like in the 21st century, back when I was playing on my Amstrad CPC in the mid 80s.
Batman - The Lazarus Syndrome
Comic-fuelled nostalgia made me do some research into a couple of BBC Radio plays I remembered from my youth - one Batman and one Superman piece, both produced by Dirk Maggs. While I was unable to find the meta-fictional “Superman On Trial” (which had Lex Luthor interviewing comic book writers and artists), I very happy to find Batman - The Lazarus Syndrome at The Radio Nostalgia Network. They’ve also got a good collection of classic superhero radio programmes from the 30s and 40s, but it was the Maggs radio play that I was particularly pleased to find as it’s a real stand-out memory from youth.
As it turns out, Dirk Maggs is a bit of a radio star. As well as the Batman and Superman pieces, he produced further radio series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide and his UK-based Independence Day spin-off sounds pretty good too. Any further links will be posted as and when they are found.
Direct link:
Batman - The Lazarus Syndrome
http://radiomemories.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=246130
