BLIP festival wrap up

The squarewave ring in my ears finally faded, here´s a round up of the coverage from the Blip Festival 2006 in NYC - MAKE was a sponsor and had a table there with our kits and zines. The fest consisted of a small but growing community from around the world - there´s something delightful about artists, composers and makers creating music from tossed gaming machines that are almost as old as the performers.

• GSW Report: Blip Festival 2006, Part 1 - Link.
• GSW Report: Blip Festival 2006, Part 2 - Link.
• Blip Festival: 8-Bit is Enough - Link.
• Blip festival - Link.
• Music @ MySpace - Link.
• Videos @ Youtube - Link.
• Quick vid from MAKE - one & two.
• Photos @ Flickr - Link.

The folks there liked the year one MAKE (soldering primer) the MIDI & circuit bending issues and the Mintyboost for charging Gameboys and music players - thanks to all the folks who stopped by to say hi, chat and pick up MAKE stuff.

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M-Audio O2 25-Key Ultra-Thin Mobile USB Midi Controller $74.99
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The Gorgeous Ladies of 8-Bit

Forget Lara Croft, Kasumi, and Vanessa Z. Schneider (rawr). They´ve got nothing on the girls of the NES, and Syd Lexia knows it. He´s compiled a list of the 23 hottest 8-bit hotties, and rated them in three categories - hotness, inner beauty, and a special arbitrary category. I´d have to say Ariel from The Little Mermaid is my favorite.

Ariel is a mermaid which means that while she may look human, her lady business has been replaced with a fish tail. That´s not cool. And while I certainly wouldn´t WANT to make love to a mermaid, I probably would out of morbid curiousity; I need to know if fish genitalia smells like a woman.

He obviously wrote this to get chicks. Other list makers include Zelda, Arylon from Final Fantasy, and Mario´s resident transvestite, Birdo. The list can be a bit harsh at times, but it´s just the thing to help make a painfully slow Friday afternoon go by a little faster. Besides, nothing with a Tawny Kitaen reference in it can be all that bad. Michael Fahey

Girls of the NES [SydLexia.com via Dark Diamond]

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