The Apples Of New York update incoming.

Are the best things in life the most trying? Are they nouns, adjectives, or verbs; real or imaginary; finite or infinite? Can they be conveyed? How much could you possibly change the world in 82 years? What about yourself? Are there shortcuts? Do books and stories and histories and parents and quotes count? How much elation can we obtain without suffering? How long can you hold your breath? Can an opinion be correct? Should we ask questions? Is thinking good? Is it necessary? Does it make you happy? Are you a commodity? How much do you wish to perceive? Depth or breadth? How do you quantify your life? How would you describe yourself? What is the answer? What is the cost? How are your decisions made? Are you alone? Have you begun your journey?

I love you.

Proteus is wonderful. So wonderful it needs more space, variability, events, structures, animals, plants, time, music, feedback, etc.

Antichamber was more fun to play as a demo a couple of years ago. It went from purely logic puzzles to mostly cumbersome block puzzles, though the start still maintains the heavy use of proverbs+insight. Certainly a clever game, but its nonlinearity and lack of a decent navigation system cause unnecessary meandering and jerky progression. Visuals are just good enough.

Some videos of varying topics. In part because I’ve randomly come across good videos lately, partly because of finding vimeo staff picks (really cool stuff on there).

Great Big Ideas - Haven’t watched these

Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker

Folding Space-Time - Vi Hart

The Break Room Interviews: Jonathan Blow - Really like Mr Blow and what he does, but man is he prolix.

The Reward

“He Was a Sweet Man”

Adam and Dog

Sloths

Caldera

Omelette

Punctuwool

The Vein/Magma

The History of Typography

Crater Face

Time is such an amazing, reflective concept.

History of timekeeping devices.

History of navigation.

History of longitude.

Nicolas Delort is an illustrator.

Frost flowers

The lawn; or on becoming a killer

Chlorosis

Virescence

Witch’s broom

Vincent van Gogh – Flowers

Key & Peele

Alfred Stieglitz

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Internet things from 2012

Milk products

More flowers

Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia

It will be a marvellous thing—the true personality of man—when we see it.  It will grow naturally and simply, flowerlike, or as a tree grows.  It will not be at discord.  It will never argue or dispute.  It will not prove things.  It will know everything.  And yet it will not busy itself about knowledge.  It will have wisdom.  Its value will not be measured by material things.  It will have nothing.  And yet it will have everything, and whatever one takes from it, it will still have, so rich will it be.  It will not be always meddling with others, or asking them to be like itself.  It will love them because they will be different.  And yet while it will not meddle with others, it will help all, as a beautiful thing helps us, by being what it is.

The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde.

Manna by Marshal Brain.

“If I thought I knew what was going to happen, it wouldn’t be worth doing. The challenge is how joyfully, with what sense of fun and adventure and playfulness, we will greet it.”

Interview by Eric Spitznagel for Playboy.