We were honored to be featured last week on Dsktps.com - a great site run by Jason Krieger, featuring a new Desktop image every Monday. Our desktop is called Five Points and features five birds, five stars, and five points in space.
Click above to go to the release page, which where you can download many different resolutions custom built for your different desktop sizes, phones, tablets, etc. And be sure to check out the other releases and even submit one of your own!
Thanks for featuring us, Jason!
It might be apparent, but we’re big big fans of Twin Peaks at Recspec HQ (see: the photos from our Twin Peaks dress-up party commemorating the 25 year anniversary of Laura Palmer’s death). So it probably goes without saying that I almost had a heart attack when I saw the above image, and of course immediately thought that it was a real physical object, until I checked the copyright date at the bottom.
A little more research uncovered that Jak Locke has created the game as a sort of love letter to Twin Peaks, and has made it available for download (on both PC/Mac) for FREE here. Totally blown away! (Pro tip: read through the manual, its just as Atari-authentic as the game itself!)
Below are a few screenshots I took while playing. Found via Welcome To Twin Peaks. Definitely made my week!
Being serenaded by the best 8-bit version of Sycamore Trees you could ever imagine.
Laura Palmer does not mess around.
In order to keep Bob and your doppelgänger from merging, you must use your ring to control the owls!
Never a good sign.
Huge kudos to Jak for such an awesome homage and totally convincing Atari throwback. Absolutely brilliant.
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Wow, the Universe really is a strange and stunningly beautiful place. Via APOD (Astronomy Picture of The Day), here’s a recent video of some Aurora Borealis near the border of Norway and Russia.
The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.
And above, more Aurora Borealis images from APOD (source, click to view full size) taken in Canada last month. Definitely wanting to take a trip north just to stare at the sky now. We also recently saw the Hubble IMAX movie, which was moving and awe-inspiring and comes highly, highly recommended from Recspec HQ.
Yes, we are space dorks, and proud.
Last week we had the pleasure of spending a few days in L.A., visiting some friends and just generally taking a vacation. We had never been before, but below are some of our L.A. favourites. You can view photos from our trip here.
Hotel: Miyako Inn
Neighborhood: Little Tokyo
Ramen: Daikokuya
Bento lunch: East
Thai: Saladang Song
Breakfast: Blu Jam Cafe (nutella crepes!)
Dive: Bar107 (has photobooth!)
View: Griffith Park Observatory
Music Happening: Low End Theory at The Airliner
Books and Toys: Giant Robot
Tiny stumbled-upon Gallery: HVW8
Zoological Eccentricities: Necromance
Some friends of ours have some really great podcasts that are currently live, so I thought I would link them here.
- Kon Karne and The Bear is our very own Kon Karne (Dave) and our friend Butcher Bear doing a podcast preview of their monthly night held at Rio Rita here in Austin. RECSPEC is also doing the design for the series – you can view the poster for the first night here.
- Rapid Composure Series 2009 is the new podcast from SLC based Eucci, and features near daily snippets of ambient noise and music for as-yet-unmade films. Really haunting and beautiful.
- 6th Floor Sessions is our good friend Zombie-J from San Francisco, dropping all sorts of bass-heavy dubstep-ish goodness.
- Scrapecast is the podcast of Austin-based Aphid and his other alter egos. Nice crunchy in your face electronic experimental madness.
- The 4am is writer Warren Ellis‘ collection of new found music sent to him directly by musicians and artists. If you have stuff to send him, you should. From his own words, The 4am “shits fireworks and baby heads.” Hell yes.
I’m sure I’m forgetting some of you, so e-mail us if you want your name included on this list. We’re music obsessed and love to spread your love.
Here at RECSPEC, we are avid zombie apocalypse pontentialists. We want it. We crave it. Or, we mostly just want to be able to knock a few heads off a few zombies with a very very large shovel, or at the very least, a baseball bat. So, today we want to share with you a few zombie related finds we’ve stumbled across recently:
- Looking for that very special brain-eater you’ve always known was out there, just for you? ZombieHarmony – because the apocalypse doesn’t have to be lonely.
- Zombies in art throughout the ages.
- The Zombie Survival Guide is a great resource. Read up and get ready.
- &, not a new find, but for anyone who enjoys a good zombie story, but always wonders about the “what then” part at the end of zombie movies – The Walking Dead is probably one of the best ongoing comics out, let alone on the subject.
Mmmm. Brains.
