Here is a little something from the zerozero project. Volume 1 is not only made by Robert Hodgin but also  featuring two names any Data Airlines follower would know by now. Our lead designer from elapse.se and his little brother dubmood! Presentation! *clap clap*

Xnutzi and Xnitzi, the spinof from the godzilla vs series by Bob Nimbe is back with episode 4. seems bob is going for something weekly! Tough luck for all non-swedes who can only enjoy coded vectorart with speechsynths and all that. Like a demo but still not. And alot of programmer related nerd-jokes. But who designed the new spacecraft bob? I would also like to mention that bob has because of popular demand uploaded alot of godzilla vs videos to youtube. Check it out, some real swedish demoscene history right there!

I’ve received some questions about who is drawing Gem Tos, and now lately the robot cowboy on the backside of The Knife compilation, so I thought its time to write about pr0f / Comic Bakery.
First time I heard & saw Bob Nimbe aka pr0f, was on the demo party Icing 1999 in an ice hockey arena outside Gothenburg. He was on stage receiving a price, but there was confusion, since the speaker had a problem understanding who he was because of his southern Swedish accent, so he was going like “who are you? “poff”? no there are no “poff” on my list”. Well bob finally made himself clear and got his price. For a simple but lovely little animation called Ninja.

When you watch it, take notice of the sound, as you can hear that familiar and brutal late 90s demo party ambiance in the background aka “every visitors brings a minimum of 5kw of sound along” as they recorded the sound at the party. Or maybe they added that intentionally what do I know? =)

Anyway, since then, I have stumbled upon prof on practically every southern Swedish demo party I ever visited and always enjoyed his series of godzilla animations. godzilla visiting various Swedish demo parties to ravage rape and kill, or well, sit down on it, somehow it feels abit inspired by Tove Janssons character Morran, or I might just be tripping. Anyway i’ve always seen him as one of the most talented graphists to come out of the Swedish demo scene. But for some reason he dont like to put portfolios online that could help me prove that to you._.

Bob Himself wandering the Gothenburg suburbs?

Another character, or a pair actually, was introduced in one of the godzilla movies, which made godzilla himself more like a side character than the main event (like rising up from Sävelången to trash The Feeling 2000 just to get stopped by bob himself turning manga on him, or was that 1999 too?) and that is two small warezsucking aliens flying around in dead space with a spaceship equiped with a Commodore 1338: Xnitzy && Xnutzi. And those two have now, thanks to bob of course, got their own frequent show on Apan Bepan. So here they are. Xnitzy && Xnutzi

Xnitzy && Xnutzi episode 1
Xnitzi && Xnutzi episode 2
Xnitzi && Xnutzi episode 3

And thanks for reading!

Inside is, constructed using a trashed laptop mounted into the classical
chest, an arcade machine which resembles none other. Booting this laptop
will bring up a welcoming screen and game field for Mr Roboto’s Arcade…
And hey – there’s an enticing big, red panic button too!

Yes, the logo has alpha transparency and more than 16 simultaneous colours.
But it looks cool!

Located next to a sliced and diced, ancient Swedish military DL40 phone
switch in a livingroom up in Umeå, Sweden you can find this great
construction which will sooth your retro gaming needs. It grants a warm,
fuzzy feeling in the otherwise dark winter where the climate offers a harsh
environment, often far, far below freezing.

Of course you should own a copy of the game before playing. Ahem.

The laptop (hidden behind its own monitor) runs Ubuntu Linux modified
to boot up into a self-hacked menu system (using PyGame) where you play
a character from the Bubble Bobble game.

To launch a specific gaming console emulator, use your character to jump
and shoot small purple balls on it. You are then presented with a long list
of games available which are scrolled through and played with any
USB-connected controller. A little notice in the upper right corner shows
you the current console.

Game console menu and the big, red panic button.

Whenever you feel like it, you can throw yourself over the big, red panic
button. It’s hooked up to the USB controller of an old, long gone,
IBM keyboard and has been mapped to the Esc-key. Hitting it with great
force will immediately, at any time, return you to the main console menu.
This comes in handy whenever frustration reaches a certain level,
or playing against opponents who simply brag too much…

To turn off the arcade machine, your menu character has to jump around
and find hidden steps to stand on. One of those are for example on
Mr Roboto’s camera. A mysterious blob located off-screen in the
upper-right playing field has to be shot twice in order to end this joyous
experience.

2 player mode is supported. Pandas are bad winners, mind you.

Next up in the project is probably hooking up the arcade machine to a
projector instead of the original laptop monitor. Anything to boost
pixel size. Adding further console emulators to the list is also a given,
of course.

Then who made it? Ludvig Widman, homebrew hacker and electronics
hobbyist. He’s got more specs on his own site.

Written for Data Airlines by Mikael “MMN-o” Nordfeldth.

Here is a little headsup for a new post on 8bit today. For you who dont know the place, its a site dedicated to 8bit related news and media. It looks nice, has a big team of contributors and post new stuff every two months… So maybe thats why I was 18 days late to tell you about their latest post. Well well.

So me and Zabutom spontaniously started working on an old project. A serie of remixes of remixes of remixes of an old song. Feels just like back in the days when we made alot of music together. =) Nowdays we raerly meet, exept for random stumbleupons like on last years blipfest or this years Nördik Impact (where Zabutom did an improvised 20minute performance between Meneo and my concert) Also, since theres been a while since I wrote just some random not neceserely related to anything post on this blog, I thought id give you one! While waiting for the 4 track result of our work, I share three zabutom songs with you, three songs thats maybe abit more rare, forgotten and/or not as frequented by todays chipmusic comunity. And before anyone complains about reposts, sometimes music on this blog tends to pass by unnoticed, or atleast early posts, and if there is someone who deserves to be reposted, its zabucom. So here you go!

EAT ZABUTOMNDUBMOODCOLABORATIONTEWNS  BRICKCHES YUMYUMYUM!

Dubmood & Zabutom – Supersquatting (Razor 1911 intro edit)
Goto80 – Comsten (Zabutom NSF Remix)
White Stripes – Seven Nation Army (Zabutom C64 Remix)
Svenska Akademien – Snapphaneklanen (Dubmood & Zabutom Gameboy Remix)
Zabutom – Drumnbice (Dubmood Atari ST edit)
Dubmood & Zabutom – 2149 sexy thing (Spectrum Edit)
Dubmood & Zabutom – Songs from the Cell
Dubmood & Zabutom – Apa vart e du?
Dubmood & Zabutom – Pampradion
Dubmood & Zabutom – Såhär kan man också göra
Dubmood & Zabutom – You can do it but not like we do it

I’ve recently talked about how you can have fun with video billboards, but you can have fun with regular billboards too, as these Berliners show. The theme is Photoshopping of female singers, demonstrated by overlaying the billboard for Britney Spears, leona Lewis and Christina Aguilera with a Photoshop interface. The layers are called things like ****Consume****, Eyes 2C, “Tits da Bitch!”.
To me this is what street art is about: bringing consciousness to the public through the use of satire, and criticizing society through the use of unauthorized art.

Made by Epoxy, Mr Talion, Baveux & Kone. Watch the full set.

Tom Markey
Gameboys.
I wouldn’t exactly call it a series yet. More of just tests or samples, but i can’t stop doing work involving them so maybe very large series on the way?

Drawings. Other artsy lo-fi stuff. That’s what Tom Markey is doing. And some LSDj tunes. Go check it out.