So I Saw The Artist...

Time for another series of observations in a post that barely qualifies as a review.

While my movie of last year may have been Drive, it seems like the academy's will be The Artist. After seeing it that's understandable, and luckily it's not bad.

Stuff I Did This Week 1/27/2012

It's not about what I did, but what I'm about to do...

Smartr Contacts is a Magic Address Book

Stay in the Game with Team Stream HD

Glitch Tank Review

Strange Cases: The Tarot Card Mystery HD Review

Pie Planet 13 The Midnight Dagger

Oh god, this arc

Movie O' 2011: Drive

I don't buy many physical copies of movies these days because why would I. However, after seeing Drive for the second time a few weeks I ago realized that I wanted to own it and at that moment I realized it was my top movie of last year.

Stuff I Did This Week 1/20/2012

I teased that I was up to some stuff and now it's time to reveal one of them. After the rousing success of my Octodad 2 article, I'll be co-writing a video game column with Mr. DJ DeWitt on the premiere Northwestern Univeristy news and entertainment website North by Northwestern. It's called NBN-tendo. Amazing. My posts will be showing up every other week. Check out the first one now.

Gaming in 2011 and what’s coming next, pt. 1

And I wrote this iOS nonsense too.

Mushroom Madness Review

Feed Baby Birds in Dino Bird

Pie Planet 12-2 Glueman 2

Fight SOPA, by reading Pie Planet

Today

Stuff I Did This Week 1/13/2012

Just hit 20,000 page views. Let's celebrate with more stuff I wrote.

Guitar Apprentice for iPad Rocks CES 2012

Amazon Launches iPad-Optimized Kindle Store Web App

ON Voicefeed Updated in Time for CES 2012

Pie Planet 12 Glueman

This arc includes I character I created in like Kindergarten. Yes, this thing has references that only I get.

Uh Oh Politics: The Cycle

Not to spoil too much of the very new and very awesome The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword but towards the end a character makes this curse, "This is not the end. My hate... never perishes. It is born anew in a cycle with no end!" It's fitting that this has come out right in the middle of another presidential election spectacle. One of the most fascinating aspects of growing up fairly aware of politics is year after year slowly understanding just how cyclical the whole thing is. It's one thing to read history books making connections between different eras but it's a whole other experience entirely to watch the darn thing happen again in real-time.

Stuff I Did This Week 1/6/2012

2012 continues.

iCilada Review

New Updates Hit SugarSync iOS App

Sticky Ball HD Review

Battleground Defense Amps Up the Tower Defense Action

The Minor Lords: Archibald & Remus Review

Pie Planet 11 The Emo Emu

New year, new puns, new Pie Planet.

New Year

Kwanzaa unfortunately ends today which must mean that the new year is upon us. Not much to say now but know that as I prepare to fly back to Chicago tomorrow, I'm preparing to go back to the place where I have opportunities to do some pretty cool things. Even now plans are in the works for awesome projects that'll undoubtedly find their way to this blog which, amazingly, is almost a year old and quickly approaching 20,000 page views.

Stay tuned and have happy new year!

-Jordan Minor (who else?)