Saints Row is an open world action-adventure video game series created by Volition and now published by Deep Silver, that tells the story of a gang called the Third Street Saints, the title comes from the name of the district of the gang’s home territory. Typically, gameplay is presented in an open world format because of the mixture of nonlinear gameplay with action-adventure and racing sequences. The series is well known for its comedic elements.
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Container Houses
The use of containers as a building material has grown in popularity of the past several years due to their inherent strength, wide availability, and relatively low expense. Homes have also been built with containers because they are seen as more eco-friendly than traditional building materials such as brick and cement.
However, there have been concerns about the environmental friendliness of this project.
http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/whats-wrong-shipping-container-housing-one-architect-says-everything.html
Hamilton
Hamilton is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The show was inspired by the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton, by historian Ron Chernow. On Broadway, it has received enthusiastic critical acclaim and unprecedented advance box office sales.
Lin-Manuel Miranda decided to pick up a biography to read on his vacation from another musical, In the Heights. At the airport he purchased and began reading Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, a comprehensive biography of Alexander Hamilton’s life, and began envisioning his life as a musical.
http://www.hamiltonbroadway.com/
Execution
Execution. Aka: “Shut up and do it. Just shut up and do it.” – N. Negovanlis
If you’re stuck, smash through it with brute force. If it sucks, move on to something else, then come back to it whenever.
Time
is a human construct. And is also something i don’t have a whole lot of.
Time in animation is conveyed through the spacing of images in relation to one another. Images more widely spaced out convey a sense of faster movement, an object passing through in a shorter amount of time.