Weekly Roundup #009
Oh hai there! Another week goes by, ultimately propelling us towards our inevitable demise. Still, the sun's been out a bit this week, that was nice! A busy week at Aards on secret stuff, so nothing to share there, but in the evenings I'm right in my grove of working on the Beyond Tellerrand titles, the creative festival in Düsseldorf I'm speaking at in May.
I am fully in the rabbit-hole of channeling web 1.0 / 2advanced / David Carson / The Designers Republic / Don Pendleton / AWS / Habitat / 123Klan / Gatecrasher & Cream 2000's-era club flyers:
I've particularly enjoyed giving every speaker their own vector-nonsense 'monogram' this week. A totally illegible wordmark that I'm using as a little extra details on their own title design.
Me and Sully have had a pretty Lego-heavy week too, trying to work our way through 'bag-per-night' on a couple of different builds. We finished the excellent PAC-MAN arcade cabinet last week (lovely details including a working glowing 'insert coin' slot and fully mechanical 'case' feature of PAC-MAN chasing the ghosts around the course!) and then this week we finished the very epic Ninjago 'Cole's Titan Dragon Mech'. I LOVE Lego and I LOVE mechs, so this build was everything! The orange and metallic gold colour combo on the mech really made it!
That's it from me. Don't forget to call your Mum this weekend by the way!
Big loves,
Gav.
WHAT AM I PLAYING?
I installed Red Dead Redemption II and I managed to play a couple of hours last weekend but that's it, I can't imagine I'll get much time to play anymore for a while! I AM managing to carve out time for TCG Pocket through, especially as a new pack was released this week: 'Shining Revelry'.
It introduces a new rarity type - shiney and double shiney (I think that's what they're called!?) and I managed to pull some beauties!
I also snagged a Vinted bargain and got a copy of Pokémon Crystal for £8 to use on the ModRetro Chromatic!
WHAT AM I LISTENING TO?
- blink-182 – blink-182
- Synestia - The Poetic Edda
- New Found Glory - Catalyst
- Deftones – Around The Fur
- Finch – What It Is To Burn
WHAT AM I WATCHING?
Not had much watch time at all this week, we're eagerly ready to watch the season finale for Severence! Spent all week trying to avoid all spoilers!
WHAT'S CAUGHT MY EYE?
The Insta 360 X4, that's what's caught my eye! As a fisheye-lover and OTT camera tricks fiend, I am so into this. NEED!
