The Inspiration Thread™

Max Optional · 2014-05-22T20:17:09

Post links to music, visuals, pictures, game footage, books, poems, strange stuff, weird stuff, stuff that only makes sense to you, stuff you've bookmarked for some weird reason without knowing if you're ever going to look at it again, but you feel like it just deserves a bookmark. Or basically whatever you wish to - as long as you feel like that something has at one point inspired you. Also - post a short snippet describing what it is in each of these nuggets that makes it special to you. That is, if you feel like it. Or don't. Just try to be inspired and inspire others. My first entry belongs to the game Pencilwhipped - a hand-drawn first person shooter that I never got into, but I haven't been able to forget since I saw it more than ten years ago. My second entry goes to this song - simply because of the way I it captures my imagination. My third entry belongs to the first (so far really only) demo that made my jaw drop. Things go bonkers when it gets to the scroller. This is the first 64 kB demo I ever saw, way back in 2001 (the demo is from 2000). A considerable selection from Arvo Pärt's repertoire. The cello rendition of his Fratres for the film There Will Be Blood is a particularly chilling example. The 42 second drop from atop The Sunspire in Unreal back in 1999. I'm not sure why, but the track Empty Cans by The Streets has always inspired me. Probably because it exemplifies how everything that goes wrong can be turned completely around by a simple change in perspective.

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Started by irreversible May 20, 2014 06:37 PM

11 comments, last by TheComet 10 years, 5 months ago

Kryzon

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May 21, 2014 01:57 AM

Stop-motion children's show with a sci-fi fantasy theme:
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- http://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL262009BCC90FD9B3
- http://www.rodneymatthews.com/lavendercastle.htm

I was about 9 when it got translated, dubbed and broadcast in my country. I remember enjoying it.

cozzie

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May 21, 2014 07:38 PM

@hodgman: that 1st movie is astonishing. Makes me so wanna know how games will look like (and at same same time crawl to a corner looking at my own engine :))

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