Tuesday, April 13, 2010

"The Gift" by Carl Erik Rinsch



Via the Curated Internet; part of the Philips Parallel Lines Project

18 comments:

Galspanic said...

Nice details. I have kind of a peeve with the "mysterious box chase" caper movies. I guess there's sort of an explanation at least.
Very pretty robot. Love the detailing. I like the overall character design in this.

Mr. Pony said...

Is it MacGuffins you're not into, or just Artifact of Attraction MacGuffins? (sorry)

Galspanic said...

Kinda both. My least favorite example of this is from Pulp Fiction, but Ronin (the film) comes a close second.
It just seems like such a cheap move.


And that link to comic is LOL.

Galspanic said...

God, THIS.

Litcube said...

Half-life 2 combine, much?

Mr. Pony said...

It does?

Litcube said...

What does?

Mr. Pony said...

What combines? Further, comBINE, or COMbine?

Litcube said...

Well, look at the police in the first 45 seconds of the movie, and then the picture of the combines that are in the video game Half-Life 2.

Mr. Pony said...

Those things are called "combines"? They look like robot piggy Vader. I should really play Half-life!

Litcube said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combine_(Half-Life)

Dude, I wish I were you. To play Half-life 2 all the way through with Episode 1 & 2, totally fresh, would rock. I wish I were you for that experience.

Mr. Pony said...

Wel, heck, I'm going to do this. Looks like it's on Steam, even. Good thing, because wow.

This means I'll have to do that thing where I use the mouse to aim. Fugu says that it's better, but boy, I don't know. I'm sure used to console controller aiming, which, I know is like underwater bullet time. I find it relaxing. What if I break my neck?

Litcube said...

No, no. Get the orange box. Orange box includes HL2, Ep 1, Ep 2, Portal, and extras, for the price of one normal game...

Wait. You don't have a PC.

Mr. Pony said...

No, but I can run Windows on my Mac. Which I did, to play Portal. Which came in the Orange Box. Which I have! But I was talking about Half-Life 1... Should I avoid that? Is it too old?

Litcube said...

HL 1 is too old, and not required.

Did you not play HL2 and you have it? Dude?

Mr. Pony said...

I know, that's kind of strange, isn't it? I needed it to play Portal. My youngest son was also born right around then, if memory serves. I wanted to be able to tell him one day that I loved him more than most games. No one mention Portal to him.

Galspanic said...

Only if you never mention WoW to my sons.

FAKA! said...

You could buy/play Half Life "Source" which is the original Half Life ported over to the Source engine (half life2/portal/etc)... I don't have it myself but I hear it makes the original Half Life look modern and less Quake 2 engine looking.