The Halo Benders To Reunite?

While browsing the K Board this afternoon, I noticed this post from someone claiming a Halo Benders show will occur in Boise (Doug Marsch's hometown) at the Visual Arts Collective on April 8th. The author goes on to add "It'll be Doug, Calvin, Ralf, and Brett Netson", and finishes the post with "from what I hear there's no new material, but there may be in the future".

There is no mention of the show on the K site and seeing that the cheapest airfare + hotel will run me around 500 bucks, it is unlikely I will be able to attend. Let's Calvin and Doug have so much fun they decide to jam regularly and write a record.

The latest collaboration the public has seen from this dynamic duo was during Built To Spill's last tour with Calvin appearing (in Big Brother video-style) during a pre-recorded monologue (updated to discuss today's Vietnam) for Bomb Shelter (video below).

The Legend Of Zelda Theme Via Theremin

I happened to catch the above video, which was just posted on GameVideos a few minutes ago, which shows the theme from The Legend Of Zelda being played using an exceptional instrument called a theremin.

A theremin was used in the original Ghostbusters score and is great for evoking an ethereal and "spooky" sound.

We Have a Pulse!

Warp Pipe launched a nifty little proof of concept service called Wiiminder roughly two weeks ago. The reception has been really positive and ended up receiving a lot more attention than I initially anticipated. I planned to post an anecdote about Wiiminder earlier, but I'm afraid I lost my mini-USB cable and won't be able to transfer photos from my phone until I get a new one this weekend.

I picked up a new consulting gig today, which is perfect timing as Tushar and I are busy in the design spec / prototyping phase of our new game we hope to pitch at this year's E3 as well as another project that we will release in the coming months.