I was just thinking: is mountain biking the "extreme" / action sport most likely to survive after The Collapse™?
Cities will be too dirty for skateboarding and rollerblading, snowboarding and skiing require both snow and access to high altitudes. Maybe BMX will also have a chance in rubble filled cities?
Am i the only person wondering about these things?
‘The Jig-Saw Fiend builds a house’: a 1933 cartoon from Ballyhoo magazine by Nate Collier (14 November 1883 - 27 February 1961). Was there a jigsaw craze in the 1930s? #TilingTuesday#fun#cartoon#jigsaw
Special acknowledgement to @rasterweb who has been sharing some of his results, which was pivotal in pushing me over the edge. Check out his pics.
Then also a friend told me last week that she has a few rolls of thermal paper left among the junk from her father's estate, and I figured that was a sign that I needed to move on this! Yay me.
Playing with the toy instant #camera with thermal printing. Discovered settings for density of image just for a few of the last ones. Gives a bit more contrast.
Blaise Pascal says “human beings will naturally seek distractions rather than confront their own thoughts in moments of solitude and quiet because those thoughts will eventually lead them to consider unpleasant matters such as their own mortality, the vanity of their endeavors, and the general frailty of the human condition.”
My GDC 2024 talk Revisiting Fun: 20 Years of a Theory of Fun is now posted here.
Once again, I had a lot of fun drawing cartoon heads of lots of people who feature in the talk.
The talk really is a direct sequel to the one from a decade ago, Ten Years Later. Unlike last time, there is no updated edition just yet, though I was asked by lots of
