Kawaii Week! Day 1: Box-Sensei

So I'm completely hooked on this now.

I've submitted a few more links to /r/Kawaii_Eyes, the disturbingly fun online collection of images with Japanese googly eyes plastered all over them. It's all sorts of fun and it's been getting me more familiarized with Photoshop, so win/win. And if I can squeeze a week-long event out of it, that's like win/win/win! That's a 150% chance of success! We're doing this!

Under the Sun / Under the Stars

I made this clock and this image about a month ago to showcase the new Minecraft development snapshot at the time. I'm posting it today because it's sort of beautiful watching the sky race along behind this small, receptive contraption and because there's not really much else going on today.

Here's the Reddit thread that I posted at the time. It's got a lot of technical details if you're interested in building one of these yourself. And of the eighty-one comments, not one seemed to notice that the moon changes phases behind the clock.

Maple Syrup is Delicious

There was once a time on the internet when animated gifs were used for very long animation sequences telling stories that you might end up watching from the middle because gifs are actually terrible mediums for story-telling.

 

Here's a story about a place I used to work at in gif form.

 

It was my first attempt at giffing, and I was so proud with the results I ended up posting it to Reddit. It made it to the front page of /r/all, which was another first for me, and I ended up having lots of fun talking to folks about this image and what went into it.

Here's the post on Reddit. Lots of clever folks telling clever jokes in that thread. It's worth a read.