Thursday 5 May 2011

Run up.

New project. Yes, I know, I need to ease up on the projects.
200 Portraits, the untitled Beast project and now a new thing. Fortunately, I can work on the other projects within this one.
It's a 12 hour art webcast.

Watch this space.

Friday 22 April 2011

Now you're (over)thinking with portals.

I imported all the stuff from my other blog to this one.

Yesterday I finished Portal 2. Oh my.
What a wonderful game. Seriously. Although...I started it on Tuesday in the afternoon and played for about an hour and then I finished playing it over Wednesday and Thursday (yesterday). The only time I left the house during this was on Wednesday to see 'Your Highness' with my boyfriend (NEVER see that movie. It sucked).
In a way, I think the game sucked me in a bit too much. The protagonist, Chell, much like in the first version, does not see sunlight for the duration of the game. And I started to feel weird when I even thought about going into the sun. Only today, knowing that I had finished the game, was I able to comfortably leave and walk around.
Portal 2 is the sequel to the incredible game Portal. In Portal, you play a 'test subject' called Chell who has to navigate a series of test chambers in the Aperture Laboratories facility using a portal gun (shoots two portals that you can use to get to places that you can't just walk or jump to) overlooked by a robot named Glados. I don't want to give away what happens in case someone who hasn't played it actually reads this, but as you go through the game and learn how to use the portal gun, the story gets a bit more complicated and...It's such an addictive game.
Portal 2 is set CENTURIES after Portal and Chell is back. At the start of the game, you are met by a new character. A 'personality core' named Wheatley (Stephen Merchant) and you find that Aperture Laboratories is screwed. It's falling apart and everyone is dead.
This isn't a games review blog and I don't want to give any spoilers away, but you should definitely play it.

If you get Portal 2 on Steam, we can play co-op.
So do it.

Johnny went to Northern Ireland to see his family this morning and I went to see 'Arthur'. I liked it. It was funny and cute. After that, I walked to the 'international market' that's going on in the city centre and bought myself a strawberry tart before sitting down in front of the cathedral to enjoy it. I also ended up covered in sticky strawberry sauce. Super cool.
After that, I mostly just walked down lanes and streets around the city centre and near where I live that I didn't know or hadn't seen through before stopping at Sainsbury's to buy some fruity mineral water and lemons. It was a really sunny day, so it was nice. Didn't need to wear a jacket, didn't have anything much to do. Just wandered around listening to Zoe Boekbinder's album 'Artichoke Perfume' and remembering how good it is.

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