Some unusual puzzle games, this time not Japanese BUT GREEK, damn it. Not high-tech but some good brain teasers and time wasters.

http://lightforce.freestuff.gr

Today someone told me about one of my old friends from Algorta, and how his dreams are finally coming true.

I’m talking about Koldo Serra who I meet while studing fine arts in Bilbao (five years of crazyness…) and I don’t know anything about him since he moved to Madrid and I moved to London.

Koldo is going to direct one of the most expectated movies in the history of Spanish cinema, a movie written by himself and another old friend, Jon Sagalá, with the participation of Gary Oldman, Paddy Considine, Virginie Ledoyen and Aitana Sanchez Gijon.

I would like to tell Koldo good luck and keep the good work up!.

Related articles (Spanish):

• Official blog for the Movie.
• Official website.
• Mimoloco - Sueños cumplidos
• El Correo Digital - Gary Oldman rodará en Euskadi el primer largometraje de Koldo Serra.
• Canarias 7 - Gary Oldman encabeza el reparto de ‘Bosque de sombras’

More than 10 years missing Toots Hibbert performances (Bilbao, Bordeaux, Paris, New york) wherever I went there were no tickets available.

Finally they perform in London at Forum, Kentish Town, Friday, September 9, and still tickets available.

Toots Hibbert is one of the great voices of Jamaica, a legend whose career spans every development in Jamaican music, from ska through rock-steady to reggae. Toots & The Maytals have helped to chart the course of Jamaican music with unrivalled delivery and dynamism, setting new standards of excellence, and becoming the most enduring of all Jamaica’s groups. Toots’ live sound fuses great reggae rhythms, heartfelt vocals, and soulful gospel influence - it is probably the most cohesive mix of reggae and soul music to come out of Jamaica.

More reggae related news at Trojan Records.

Check out this brick flick.

Stupid gadgets, images of asian women holding things, links to paper starships, all at the Idiot Toys blog.

Game Paused is a book/DVD project, featuring art and design inspired by video games. An exhibition with the best entries is planned to be held in London. Best: you can still submit artwork, any type of media is accepted.

I sure want these:

Edge Online has a nice article about it.

Middlesex University’s Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts will show the work of students completing this September on the MA / MSc Design for Interactive Media.

Venue:

• Studio 95, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL

Dates:

• 9 September - 12 September11 am - 7 pm.
  
• Private view: 8 September 7 pm - 10 pm.

Following up our post Flash and Video (April 27th), and since most common video players dont support FLV, I would like to add a few more links to some tools to watch FLV files on your desktop:

• Flash Guru FLV Player (Available for MAC too).
• Martijn Devisser FLV Player (Source code included).
• Tekool FLV Player (FullScreen feature).
• FLViewer (It can browse and quick preview all the FLV in your system).

Realated entries:

• FLV and Wordpress
• Flash: FLV resources
• Flash: Full Screen Video
• Flash Video category

I love this game. Go check out the adventures of Chad over at the Super Monkey Ball Deluxe site. Episode 3 and 4 are my favorites.

If you have play to the latest GTA (San Andreas) probably you will agree with me that one of the most frustating missions is ‘Wrong side of the Tracks’.

After almost 100 attempts during this week, I found out that the only way to destroy all of the Vagos gang members is ignoring Big Smoke (he is very bad with guns) , get a good distance from the train and shot them yourself.

There are a couple of cheats to help you with it (Hitman level in all weapons and Weapons Package #3).

I love to play games cheating :).

one of my favourite best practice websites had a complete front-to-back relaunch. With a new design, new engine, and 3 new articles to start with.

Enjoy, Matthias

New set of Video Tutorials by flashextensions.

• Using Simple Library Elements in an Application.
• Using Components in an Application 1.
• Using Components in an Application 2.
• Storing Classes as a resource 1.
• Storing Classes as a resource 2.

Previous related entries:

• Flash: More Video Tutorials, August 9th, 2005.
• Flash: Small tip, Tuesday, August 2nd.
• Flash: Video Tutorials, Tuesday, August 2nd.