Over on the Physics of Osmos blog they have an Osmos competition. Create a one-minute video illustrating the physics concept that you discover in the game. The top entry will win a $500 gift card to Amazon.com. The top three runners up will also receive prizes.
Steve Jobs the master of orbital dynamics
To submit your entry, follow [...]
There’s a new interview over on GFBRobot (Giant Fire Breathing Robot!) where I talk about Osmos, favourite synthesizers and physics.
Visit GFBRobot to read the interview…
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Congratulations to the following who all won a copy of Silk for iPad…
Hector Lee
Dogglesnoffer
Bruce Wiggins
Many thanks to everyone who took time to leave a comment!
Silk is now available in the ipad App Store…
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Read: Silk for iPad, Winners
Add a comment below to win a copy.
Silk.
With the swish of a finger anyone can create beautiful, flowing art entwined with an ethereal soundscape, a world where riches of color spring from your fingertips.
The official app of www.weavesilk.com with millions of users.
Create gorgeous wallpapers with the swish of a finger.
Original music and sound [...]
6th Planet app free draw, here are the winners who each get a copy…
Martin Wood
DrWig – visit his site for some excellent and free ambisonic VST plugins for Mac and PC.
Neil Allen
Many thanks to all fellow anthropoids and humanoids who added a comment, may the random numbers be in your favour next time.
Available now on [...]
Read: 6th Planet, App Winners
6th Planet, brand new iPhone / iPod game from new indie developer Monkube. It’s a fusion of arcade game and comic book and features an electronic soundtrack from Leones, Robots in Space, Forest Fargloam and myself (with Gas-Microscopic). I also made some of the in-game sounds on my ARP Odyssey and old phaser pedal. Includes [...]
A couple of recent interviews with
Wolfson Music: Interview with Mat Jarvis of Gas/High Skies
Think Before Type: Geek Music – Osmos / High Skies / Mat Jarvis – An Interview
There was a third, but I’ve just checked the link and the site seems to have collided with a dematerializer.
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Read: Mat Jarvis interviews… Wolfson Music, Think Before Type
Dustin Brown sent us this strangely fascinating video he created of para-dichlorobenzene crystals (mothballs) growing under a microscope, looking like organic pixels and set to Microscopic. We took the opportunity to ask him how he created it.
Mat Jarvis: How long have you been observing things under the microscope?
Dustin Brown: I started observing through the microscope [...]
Free Gas and High Skies tracks for all customers and subscribers to our occasional newsletter.
High Skies – The Good Earth mp3 (click to play snippet).
This is an old unreleased Gas track from around 1998. It’s a micro track at only 43 seconds long, that’s why the preview clip above is so short. A broadcast from Apollo [...]
Earlier this week temperatures approached DX7 territory; so I took a few frostbite pics of the snow and ice outside of Microscopics HQ. Warning for those still living in 2001, some images may take a few seconds to load.
One large Wordpress problem is that any image it scales down become very blurred, as below (grr), so [...]
Read: Ice Skies
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