http://www.sukimon.com Enter the 36 Chambers of Sukimon Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:58:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was going to a game shop near Taipei Main Station to exchange my non-functioning copy of GRAW2 for a working one when I saw this: It was lying in the middle of a crosswalk, in front of a taxi that was veering to the side of the road to avoid ... http://www.sukimon.com/2008/03/priorities-a-cat-and-me/ I've been kinda slow, but I'll be catching up with the review posts on the over 10 shows I went to during the Festival(!). My hope is that it may help somebody find more information about a film they're going to see, or give people some titles of things ... http://www.sukimon.com/2007/10/taipei-international-animation-festival-part-3/ Coming home on my scooter after watching an opposite-of-upbeat set of animations collectively titled "Abused", I found that I was not able to take the usual roads home as a policeman was diverting eastbound traffic on Hankou St. to the north. There's a lot of cops around and some ... http://www.sukimon.com/2007/10/taiwan-national-day-rehearsals/ Not in Taipei? Sucks to be you, but here is the chef lowdown on what was up on the screen. Chances are you may be able to find the stuff on YouTube or elsewhere depending on how the artist distributes the work. Taipei Competition 2 The Ringmaster This is the ... http://www.sukimon.com/2007/10/taipei-international-animation-festival-part-2/ The Taipei International Animation Festival is in full swing, and right after work I zoomed down to the Shin Kong Cineplex (the map is a lie - it's on the south side of that road) to catch 2 shows: Taiwan Competition 2 and Taiwan Competition 3. These are Taiwanese ... http://www.sukimon.com/2007/10/taipei-international-animation-festival-part-1/ This past weekend, I got to see King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a documentary focused on two men, Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell, and their efforts to get the world record high score for the classic arcade game, Donkey Kong. Although there was a lot of retro history and ... http://www.sukimon.com/2007/09/king-of-kong-a-fistful-of-a-story/ Has it really been almost six months since my last post? Oui vey. Yeah, the Sukimon crew went underground during that time, to tend to various projects (coaching high school tennis, switching jobs, looking for a new place to live, bought a car, painting a house, etc.). But now I'm back ... http://www.sukimon.com/2007/09/back-from-the-underground-the-making-of-imagic-documentary/ With a runtime of over 23 minutes, this is one of the more painful video captures I've ever seen, a Super Mario Brothers mod, apparently created by some masochistic Taiwanese. Hardest. SMB. Mod. Ever. One can just watch the first couple of minutes, but for some reason I couldn't look away, ... http://www.sukimon.com/2007/04/evil-evil-super-mario-mod/