Lively

Google's launched a 3d social chatty thingy. The avatars in the trailer movie all appear to be either Bratz-esque homunculettes or chubby little squirrelly critters, which tells me that Google is narrowly targeting the service towards the dual core virtual-world markets of

1. Image-conscious youths, primarily teenage girls and young women, eager to spend real money on virtual goods with designer names, and


2. Furries.

I still wanted to try it out because clearly I need to make an Appleseed Room to show how "with it" and "hep" I am but my Boot Camp partition is in a melted-down state, and the thing is Windows-only right now. (Very happy that Project X is backed up off-site... yeesh.)

Speaking of

Project X is back on the shelf for the nonce; I'm doing a good job eating through my Appleseed pile but there's plenty more to do. There's a finite amount of it, so it behooves me to ker-chunk ker-chunk continue processing it into ca$h money before swinging back into X mode for a few weeks. There is more business X-related communications I can do in the meantime... in fact, I should get on them presently.

Almost certainly no prototype by August 1, then, especially with the move coming up, but it was a good target to aim for anyway. If I'm especially industrious I'll be able to at least put it back on my workbench before then, and I really think I'll have a prototype about a month after that, so long as I can really focus on it.

But we can't have that, can we? So I have another damn new project idea in mind, a more passive one that ties into a topic I'm known to be interested in but haven't blogged about in a while. You'll see it when you see it.

But I guess it's pretty bright

As an illustration of an artist dramatically improving his craft over time, I present a couple of works of Joel Veitch, an animator of memetically muscular nonsense pieces. (Both are SFW, but you'll probably want headphones if you're actually at work, slacker.)

Exhibit A: We Like the Moon, 2002.

Exhibit B: Princess Twinkly, 2008.