Tom Ellard

HH: More Rabbits

I started building rooms with multiple tape recorders, radios etc. For the radios I’m trying to reproduce my existing Shortwave Radio simulation, but quickly discovered a hard basket.In that exhibit…

January 27, 2012Game Design, RantingNo Comments

Ranting

Secrets of the 1%

I’m sorry I’m blogging so much. University break. It’ll stop soon.Frickin’ LinkedIn. You had enough? It’s like a sad FaceBook for middle managers. Everybody links in and then avoid each…

January 24, 2012RantingNo Comments

Game Design

HH: Bloody hell, it’s actually happening.

I’m kind of embarrassed that it’s taken a stern deadline but… it’s happening. What? Well here is a sketch from 1999. This is one of the musical instruments that feature…

January 18, 2012Game DesignNo Comments

Ranting

Rebigotting part 2 – Help design a box set package!

Gosh – how time flies when you’re still servicing high interest debt! It was April when I last reported on the Bigot album. Since then I got the hot water…

January 12, 2012RantingNo Comments

Ranting

2012 What a Cracker!

It doesn’t get any better than this! You look back over 2011 and say to yourself ‘obvious Leibniz quote’. I myself enjoyed a cornucopia of death, taxes and medical bills…

January 1, 2012RantingNo Comments

Ranting

Christmas re-education camp

As feared, as predicted; three years of hits and memories have damaged my ability to write music. Three years is longer than most bands last in total. It’s enough time…

December 25, 2011RantingNo Comments

Ranting

The giant meteor that squashed Guangzhou airport

The day began as any other in the south of the Great Empire – the morning glowed sickly brown with flecks of purple as the old sun cut through layers…

December 21, 2011RantingNo Comments

Ranting

Resolution

I can’t remember which story it was – an elderly English detective novel (Agatha Christie or some such) which featured a guru in residence at the dead man’s mansion. When…

December 11, 2011RantingNo Comments

Game Design Severed Heads

Belgium. Absolutely Final. Right?

Oh goodie. Zack Parsons has flipped his wig again and is running, well not an ARG, but certainly some weird shit delivered over multiple levels. Start here, read very carefully…

November 15, 2011Game Design, Severed HeadsNo Comments

Ranting Uncategorized

At the heart of Visual Music is…

Thanks to people for the sympathy for the olds. But they passed on a month or so ago (obits take time to write) and I think they were unhappy waiting…

November 6, 2011Ranting, UncategorizedNo Comments