Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP Stop Motion

Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP/ DS LITE STOP MOTION ANIMATION
A short stop motion animation featuring the GBA and DS.

 

Albert Art THUG StormHammer Stop Motion Animation

THUG LIFE
Here's a little promotional piece I've created for my friends at Unison SuperStudio & NiceFactory. They make awesome toys, and now you can see some of my customs in action.
Mushrooms exploding, and more!
http://thugsquad.comhttp://albertart.net





  

PARTY! 8BITSF POW DNA LOUNGE CHIPTUNES

PARTY! 8BITSF POW DNA LOUNGE CHIPTUNES (PICS, and VIDS)


To kick off GDC, 8bitSF hosted 'POW: Indie Music and Developers Collide' event at DNA Lounge. The night was filled with chiptune performers on stage, with indie gaming kiosks set up around the event.


The Glowing Stars, Zen Albatross, and Virt were among my favorites. The Yobble Air Guitar was also a fun little game for iPhone.


If you weren't at the event, you definitely missed out on some good stuff.


Check out the pics and video below.

DNA LOUNGE 
http://www.dnalounge.com/ 


8bitSF 
http://www.8bitsf.com/2012/02/8bitsf-presents-pow-indie-music-and.html 

8bitSF presents POW: INDIE MUSIC & DEVELOPERS COLLIDE

This is gonna be a hot one.

In honor of the 2012 Game Developer's Conference, 8bitSF is proud to present POW, a celebration of the indie spirit. POW is a colossal night of sound + vision, and features performances by some of the best acts in both gaming and chip music as well as demo tables and presentations by indie developers Muteki Corporation (Dragon Fantasy), Open Emotion Studios (Revoltin' Youth), Yobble (Air Guitar) and more!

Tuesday, March 6

8pm - 1am.

chip music. electro. experimental.

21+.

$8 advance;
$12 door;
$5 w/ GDC badge

http://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2012/03-06.html

PAX 2010 CHIPTUNE MUSIC ROCKS MAGFEST JAMSPACE SeanBad at PAX. Watch in HD!

SeanBad @ MAGFEST

It was only a matter of time before the Penny Arcade Expo, gave music fans an alternative to the headlining musical acts at the popular gamer convention. Though these artists may not grace the main concert stage with the likes of Jonathan Coulton, Protomen, or Anamanaguchi, the electronic beats, and nostalgic sounds of classic gaming, performed by a single person armed with a Nintendo Game Boy, is certainly a musical experience not to be missed.

It seems like only last year that chiptune artists were outsiders to the PAX masses, playing impromptu performances on the steps of the Washington State Convention Center, denied entry maybe, but surrounded by curious onlookers as they jammed to 8-bit sounds. Maybe there wasn't enough interest in electronic dance music in the past, to accommodate these musicians inside the expo, but oh how things have changed.

Certainly, for a chiptune DJ, there is no 5-piece band to fill up a stage, nor geek laden rap lyrics, or folk rock music for the audience to sing along to. However, this year is an entirely different story for chiptune music at PAX Prime, thanks to Jamspace, a venue for anyone who plays an instrument to perform, and MAGfest Music, and Gaming Festival, bringing together such a great group of musicians.

Now PAX goers can get their electro chiptune fix, with lots of flashing lights in a dance party environment. The great thing about Jamspace is that you can walk into the room at any time of the day during the convention and hear some great music. I didn't know what to expect when I first entered the room, but an artist by the name of SeanBad was rocking the crowd.

I made this video from footage taken the day SeanBad performed. It features the track 'Kiwis,' a remix of the Live Animal track.

Keep your eyes and ears on SeanBad, he could play at Blipfest one day alongside Nullsleep, Bitshifter, and the other 8bitpeoples.

PAX 2010 - 'Kiwis' - (SeanBad Remix) Jamspace MAGFest (HD) from Albert Art on Vimeo.

More Seanbad --

Facebook SeanBad

http://8bc.org/members/SeanBad/

http://soundcloud.com/seanbad/clusterfuk

Day 1 Tokyo Japan Trip

Saturday Night in Tokyo!

Posted 9am Japan time, Sunday Morning. First off, please excuse the rushed blogging. I really don't want to spend all day updating, when I could be outside playing. This is Tokyo after all! The next few posts will basically be to get the general happenings down, but there's so much in between that I'll have to leave that for post-Tokyo blogging. Like how I broke my iPhone prior to Tokyo, which I'll go into detail at a later time.

Gawd damn that was a long plane ride. Though the service on JAL was incredibly good, which included one snack, and 2 full meals (One dinner, and one breakfast), sitting in a tight chair for 9 or 10 some odd hours, was tough. I don't think I'd want to endure it more than once in a while. The staff was friendly, and understood English very well, more than I was expecting. They also kept coming back to provide some coffee or tea after meals.

We landed at Narita around 6pm Japan time, on Saturday afternoon. Marie and I, got our temp cellphones, met up with a friend and hopped on the Narita Express train which was 30bucks, but the fastest way to get to Tokyo, Shibuya. This part reminded me of San Francisco when I went to GDC because of the trains convenience at the airport. We decided to get some drinks to make the trip a little more livelier. Alcoholic ones. They also have vendors on the train who sold more drinks.

We got off at Shibuya, and headed straight for the hotel which was not even 2 minutes from the station to drop off our stuff. Let me just say that Shibuya is exactly how its described by all those who have been here, and all the videogames that have portrayed this crazy part of Tokyo. Hip, full of life, and just plain cool. It's so fucking extreme, it's awesome, and the fact that it was Saturday night made this place even crazier. Man I kept thinking about all my friends back home who would kill to be in my place.

By this time it was around 8 or 9, and I was pretty worried we wouldn't be able to make it to the Chiptune party I had wanted to go to, which ended at 10pm. We briefly checked out an arcade near the hotel, then got on another train to Kichijoji. We packed in like sardines, it was hilarious. Once we got to Kichijoji, we couldn't find the place -- Fourth Floor. Being stupid, I forgot the address, but luckily my friend had an idea of where it was.

After standing in the small little streets of Kichijoji (that reminded me of the inside of New York New York in Las Vegas), totally trying to figure out what to do next, we started to hear blips, and bleeps, so we knew we were close to the party. We realized it was inside this building with a sushi restaurant. We caught an elevator, to the party.

We caught the last bit of the show, which was still pretty awesome, and after experiencing Chiptune in Tokyo, I'd say I'm ready for Blipfest come this December in NYC!!! Already have my tix.

Pitchfork Extends Reformat the Planet; Additional Week

One MORE week.

In my never ending quest to convince people to watch Reformat the Planet, I'm going out of my way to promote the movie. I just feel that I have to. I'm not a marketing plant I swear, nor am I making any money from this, but what are blogs for if the blogger can't plug his or her interests in an effort to share them with other like-minded people?

Pitchfork.tv has decided to extend streaming the entire film for one more week.

Watch it or Die!

Now, if only Blipfest would announce the lineup and pass registration info!!

Blipfest - Reformat the Planet, on Pitchfork.tv

8.15-8.21 For one week, and one week only!

Today Pitchfork.tv did one of the greatest things that I've ever since them do in the short time that they've been around. Available for One Week Only, free for online viewing in it's entirety is "Blipfest: Reformat the Planet", the documentary on Chiptune music and culture by 2 Player Productions, which in my opinion is the best, most comprehensive resource that covers the Chiptune music scene. This my friends, is a cause for celebration.

The thing is, it's only available for ONE week, so head on over to Pitchfork.tv to see what the excitement is all about. If you haven't seen it, and have been curious about music made with Gameboys, now you can!

It came as a complete surprise to me, after having not seen the film since the Game Developers Conference back in 2007, so I found myself distracted all day long at work watching it over again. I was literally sitting at my computer when I got word of this Pitchfork exclusive, and as I watched it, I couldn't help but Geek Out. I instantly updated my Twitter, and facebook statuses to reflect my enthusiasm for this. You see, I plan on attending Blipfest 2008 in December, so seeing scenes from the fest got me totally stoked about attending the event. No one else in the room was as enthusiastic as me, and believe it or not I work at a video game company. I guess Chiptune is an acquired taste even for gamers, and employees of game studios.

I've always been somewhat frustrated with the fact that Chiptune music on the west coast of North America doesn't seem to be too prevalent. Certainly there are Chiptune artists in LA, and San Francisco, but other than that I don't think it has reached other cities on the west, definitely not Vancouver. New York is where it's at, and I've been missing many exciting events going on this summer. If ever I move to New York, I'd be all up in this party scene.

I began to think of the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) in Seattle which is fast approaching at the end of August as a place that would be a perfect to showcase this music. The massive gamer/geek expo features musical acts, none of which are Chiptune artists. There's rappers, and electro pop acts with songs that deal with familiar gamer themes, and covers of game songs, but for Chiptune itself, that's where its lacking. I remember I emailed the folks at Penny Arcade sometime ago, regarding their lack of interest in inviting chiptune acts, but I received no reply.

*EDIT So apparently this year's PAX will be getting a Screening of Reformat the Planet, along with a performance by Anamanaguchi. I will definitely try and make it to those. So should you! Though Anamanaguchi rocks, I'd prefer if it were Bitshifter, Glomag, Nullsleep, Covox or Bubblyfish representing at PAX.

What will it take for Chiptune to gain a larger audience and presence at gamer events? Just because chiptune artists don't necessarily perform Megaman songs, and other fan service, doesn't mean the art itself isn't relevant to game culture.

Here's hoping this Pitchfork exposure gets Chiptune the recognition it deserves.