7 posts tagged “destructoid”
>Is this awesome? Y/N
>>Y
The Destructoid community is more attractive and more talented than you are. Also, it is unlikely that Chris Kohler gets very much fan art.
>Are you perpetually amazed? Y/N
>>Y
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
>>Use shotgun
Those are the feelings evoked by the font (Rosewood Std) I used in my first-ever Destructoid c-blog banner, the result of a lack of creative vision coupled with being Photoshop retarded. Rosewood wasn't exactly what I had in mind when I started, but it was the most compelling font that came standard with my copy of Photoshop, since I didn't have internet access at the time of creation, no, evocation. After staring at it for about half an hour in the bottom of a dormitory, ostensibly helping conditional freshmen make insightful arguements about Othello and King Henry IV, Part I, the Rosewood started to grow on me, and I really can't be dicked with changing it. It'll do, at least until (if?) I get any feedback on more viable options.
Whatever -- I made it, it's mine. Just don't laff.
Even with a wider variety of typefaces available to me at my work
computer, I don't feel particularly pressed to alter it. Besides,
Rosewood Std might be the only font that looks good (?) in
yellow. That being said, though, I'm going to make it a point to steal
some of this computer's more interesting fonts for my own use,
particularly an Edwardian Script, Desdemona, Colonna MT, and bauhaus 93.
While I enjoyed cobbling this banner together like some sort of trendy machinist, I don't know how much creative juice I have left in me. I considered similarly mishmashing something together for Nathan, my roomate, who is equally devoid of Dtoid banner imagery, but I realized that my only ideas were variations on the theme. It's an aesthetic I enjoy, at the expense of not being able to do anything else. This is due in part, I hope, with my limited knowledge of Photoshop. Perhaps as I acquire more tools, I'll be able to drum up something more compelling and complex.
Nevertheless, I'm happy with it, and it works a lot better than the shitty Undertow concept art that I had been using as a place holder for over a year.
The banner is composed of clips from: a picture of an art piece that Andrea took the last time we went to Chattanooga. It's one of many steel and wire crows perched throughout downtown; Hermes from Persona 3; and a Destructoidification of counterculture icon Ken Kesey, courtesy of itemforty. The other three images are from various and sundry wallpaper images floating around my nebulous hard drive.
P.S. I think I have some spyware on my work computer that is preventing
my browser from accessing Photobucket. Which means that any
Photobucket-hosted images appear broken, or not at all. The internet is broken.
Topher has created a monster. He's gotten me and mines addicted to interested in vinyl toys, what with his Bastardino icon and his Tirehead-dog-thing-humping-his-360. After buying some for the missus, signing up for the Tomopop newsletter (what is Tomopop?), and playing with Castle Crashers, I'm pretty sure I'm hooked.
Thankfully, web 2.0 is a vast labyrinth of deep links upon deep links, leading me to various and sondry (that's the Middle English spelling. I'm taking a Chaucer class, but more on that later) factoids, pichurrs, blog entries, and this video.
Colette's c-blog --> Colourlovers --> Digg --> Video.
So -- I've never filmed myself before. Let me clarify -- I've never filmed myself before and put it on YouTube. That shit is for crack-addled teenage girls and pretentious boobs. Seriously, nobody gives a shit.
But.
What if someone did give a shit? What if half a dozen someones gave a shit? What if making videos of yourself is an incredibly effective procrastination tool?
One of the good things about the whole Destructoid thing is that, once you're a part of it, you can relate, at least on a few (perhaps perfunctory) levels, to everyone else there. We might not all like robots, or toys, or flannel shirts, but we all like Destructoid enough to have signed up for it and to check out where the mascot came from.
For the record, I didn't plan for the fucking robot to stall out at weird times and interrupt me when I was talking. I also don't know what compelled me to a.) use this take or b.) do this at all, except for the fact that it was more fun than studying.
I like to think that when you break your YouTube cherry, it's acceptable to compulsively watch yourself over and over. But, that might be my raging egocentrism talking.
This was before we almost got kicked out for contributing to the delinquency of a minor, but after having royally disrupted the electric slide.
Why people are still sliding (electrically) in this day and age is beyond me, as are manginas of all varieties.
Like an anthropomorphic seahorse, I will bear the first child of anyone who makes me one of these.
From Nick's otherwise awesome Boogie review:
OK, that is a pretty cool game ... but you haven't played that yet, though.
I watched the video previews on the Wii.
Right. Well, this is the Internet, so you've seen enough to make that judgment.
Pwnt.
