potted potter onimusha by proxy

Well, last dispatch before I wander across to Germany for the panel on videogame preservation at Wizards Of OS, then back to London, then back to San Jose, with book-editing mixed in there somewhere.

In the meantime, managed to sneak out for a foyer-tastic >100,000-scoring jaunt on Ms. Pacman before Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban, which was elegiac, and just a little confusing, but cunningly deconstructed from the book, and somehow a lot more human than the previous two movies.

Some new collections that we've been working on went public at the Internet Archive - Speed Runs, in conjunction with the folks at the PlanetQuake Speed Demos Archive (though right now it's mainly non-Quake titles, including a lot of Metroid), as well as the Machinima Archive with the Stanford gaming folks - there's some other neat stuff coming soon related to games, here's a small sneak preview - mm, Klayman in New York. In audio, the Netlabels collection is kicking it, too - >2000 recordings from about 80 labels, all freely distributable, and mainly Creative Commons-licensed.

Other trickjazztical pimpnology? Tried renting Onimusha 3 (my God, what an astounding CG intro sequence, at least), PSO Episode III (really intriguing, wish I had more time to get addicted to it), and TiVo-ing The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen (on re-viewing, surprisingly spry for a flop, if you can nap during the Robin Williams insanity), and... just getting on with getting on. So let's get.