Putting autotune to good use: slightly out of tune popular songs by Pluffnub.
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Draw some tunes.
I made a few. Tried for different themes. The last reminds me of Become Ocean.

House of the Rising Sun
Another House of the Rising Sun
This is Halloween
What is Love
Doom: Level 1
Sandstorm
Canon in D
All versions of the popcorn song (with really cool popcorn menu) and an electric guitar one.

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). Updated when you least expect it:

• 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
• Starships!
• Box
• Requiem for Romance
• Cicada Princess
• UFFIE – Difficult
• Sparkles and Wine
• Ice Crystal Timelapse
• Slow Life
• A rather lovely thing
• Cosmic Flower
• Out of the Black
• New Topia
• Tonk’s Island
• My New Animation
• Call You Home by Kevin Jones
• Apollo Missions
• Frozen Soap Bubbles
• Wintergatan – Marble Machine
• Scavengers
• Unendurable Line
• AMA – a short film by Julie Gautier

Taylor Clark profiles Jonathon Blow and the state of videogames only a little hyperbolically. The Witness is apparently about existential awareness of ourselves and the world around us— using Blow’s mind and reality as the medium.
Michael Abrash on working at Valve. Also, Handbook for New Employees.
Disasterpeace composed the soundtrack to Fez (a calm and intriguing puzzler).
Austin Wintory composed the soundtrack to Journey (the best “evocative” game I have played). Here he writes on why he is an artist:

Beyond the joy itself, beyond the endlessly stimulating growth through collaboration, the real reason I compose music is the hope of connecting with someone.

Don’t forget to ask questions.