I was messing around with Quartz Composer and Kinect yesterday. I started to make a drum machine, but something went horribly wrong and this came out. Evil Super Snakes are attacking the world (or perhaps a plane?) and you must try to destroy them.
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Attack of the Persu Snakes – A Kinect-Based Game Prototype
Thursday, April 14th, 2011New Website Launch – Månsteri
Friday, July 10th, 2009This is it! New website! Update your bookmarks and RSS feeds!
I’ve decided to move all my stuff from originalhamsters.com to this new site mansteri.com. There are many reasons, but one of the biggest is because of mix ups with a certain gentleman from Chile. I honestly didn’t know about him when I came up with the name 6 or 7 years ago. Anyway, time to move on.
The move is still under progress and I haven’t decided exactly on how to organize the content. The layout needs some work also, but this is a good start.
The old site is not disappearing anywhere. There are going to be some changes once I figure out how to organize my stuff. All the old content is going to stay there though. At least the blog, since there are a lot of links pointing there from all over the interwebs. As you may have noticed the old blog is duplicated here along with the comments and everything. Commenting on originalhamsters.com has been disabled for now.
Just clear something up Månsteri is pronounced Monsteri. The å is the Swedish-o letter. Sorry for confusing all the non-Scandinavians.
No FireWire On New MacBooks, Only One FW800 on MBP
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008Nerd ranting warning.
What the hell is Apple doing? There are no FireWire ports on the new MacBooks! Essentially, that means that anyone doing any serious work in video or audio has no reason to buy a MacBook. Our university buys roughly 60 MacBooks per year for the students to buy at a cheap price, but now I dont see any reason why our Audiovisual Media Culture program would buy any of these, since they are useless for video work.
And the new MacBook Pro only has one FW800 port. Again, making any musicians life a bitch since you will most likely need at least 2 FW ports, for an HD and an audio interface. Well, at least you can daisy chain FW devices. And another useless idea was introducing the DisplayPort. That means dropping the support for S-Video and composite adapters. So you´ll need more dongles to connect to different diplays or projectors. I would rather have a computer that is 2mm thicker than having to carry around five different dongles to display the image. Granted, it is smaller and cheaper to manufacture, but that should show up in the price or that would have allowed the space for another FW800 or USB port. Did I mention no E-SATA and no Blu-Ray?
I´m just hoping my current MBP will last through this generation and that Apple would change their course and actually start making laptops that are useful for audio and video professionals.
Damn It Feels Good To Be a Banksta
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
From Sinfest
Updates + Månsteri-posters
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008I’m updating the site. So some things may not work correctly for a while.
Check out Månsteri 2.0 this friday.
Mindfuck
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Haven’t updated for a while. Been crazy busy, but something kewl coming soon. Meanwhile, check this out:
Is the woman spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html
Remember these too:
Nasty Thing
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007I was checking my website stats from Google Analytics and found this thing.
I would like to thank that guy (come on, this has to be a guy) from Chicago who actually googled “girls doing nasty thing with hamsters” and ended up in my website. I haven’t laughed this much in a long time.
I want to laugh more so I’ll add some more keywords here: hamsters, sex, nasty thing, girls, nude, squirrels.
It’s WordPress, Baby!
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Things will look strange for a few days. I migrated from Blogger to WordPress. I got tired of the limitations Blogger had for blogs that were published via FTP to other servers.
I just need to get used to this guy and everything should be back to normal in a few days.
I worked on this tonight and things are pretty much normal. Some images are missing and some of the links might be dead. Contact me if something isn’t right. If you see something, say something!
It's WordPress, Baby!
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Things will look strange for a few days. I migrated from Blogger to WordPress. I got tired of the limitations Blogger had for blogs that were published via FTP to other servers.
I just need to get used to this guy and everything should be back to normal in a few days.
I worked on this tonight and things are pretty much normal. Some images are missing and some of the links might be dead. Contact me if something isn’t right. If you see something, say something!
Back Home
Monday, August 20th, 2007Last time I wrote anything here we were leaving Providence. After that we went to Denver and Washington DC. I’m not really in the mood for writing anything about that, but let’s just say that all kinds of things happened and it was all coolio. I got back in Finland on Thursday after almost 30 hours of traveling. I didn’t really sleep on the plane except from London to Helsinki and when I got to my bed here in Pilkanmaa I slept for 20 hours non-stop.
I just got all my film developed from this summer and started organizing my pictures. Tons of digital pictures, 10 rolls of View Master photos (that’s roughly 700 pictures) and a couple of super8 reels. I’ll Flickr all the interesting pictures next week when I get on a faster internet connection. Then I need to find a lot more empty View-Master reels to fit all my pictures. I’ll scan and upload all the good stuff when I get them done.
Thanks to my adventures in the Land of the Free I got some buyers for my shirts in the USA also, so I opened a USA store. I don’t have much for offer yet, but look how happy my first US customers are!
You can be happy too! Just buy buy buy! I’ll add more stuff to the store later this week. All you Europeans get some goodness too. I’m getting some new designs and I’ll revamp the whole product selection with new shirts and new colors.
Today I got back from Helsinki where I was checking out the Flow Festival. Good music, smiling people, some friends I hadn’t seen for a long time and Bebel Gilberto. Niceness. I took some VM-pictures there also. Will upload them when I get my hands on a scanner.
Next semester is looking pretty busy even though I had decided to take it easy. I already got myself involved in a bunch of projects and I got shitloads of ideas for my personal projects. I don’t want to get into details just yet, because I know myself and only half of them will ever even get started.
Now I’m chilling here with my mum and sisters for a while before I go to Rovaniemi. Kind of makes me sad when I think back and realize that the summer is almost over. A lot of good memories from this summer though. Thanks to all the people involved in those memories. You know who you are.