Ninja Robot Dinosaur

Chris Anderson’s “Next Industrial Revolution” article in Wired a few month’s ago is something that anyone who simply wants to CREATE should read. It’s inspiring, incredible and it’s happening right now. This video is like a highlight reel:

The single greatest thing about the techno-creative world that we live in – is that the only major barrier stopping anyone from creating and sharing is action.

Have you always wanted to make a book – an insane book, 300 full color pages of the photo’s from your childhood?

What if you wanted to make a font, out of your handwriting?

Or if you wanted to make custom pieces for your action figures?

Or are you crazy enough to make your own car?

The previously closed-off world of manufacturing, distribution and creation are available to almost anyone and are becoming more open each and every day.

Do you have a dream to create something?

What’s stopping you?

G-Force is not a gerbil armada – no, G-Force were the heroes in Battle For The Planets, the western name for Gatchaman, an anime series from the 70’s. And while Ray Ardent might insist that he is the only Science Ninja around, the full name for Gatchaman was ‘Science Ninja Team Gatchaman‘

A substantial amount of work was done on an updated Gatchaman movie before production was stopped.

Now, we only have this early promotional trailer, which only hints to the awesome Science Ninjutsu that we could have seen.

Now – bring on the live action Starblazers!

“The best education in film is to make one.”
- Stanley Kubrick

On Dec 1st, 2009, I hadn’t written a line of code since high school, way back in 1992. High School computer programming was done in BASIC and was taught by the drama instructor. It wasn’t exactly a solid programming foundation.

I knew that 2010 was the year I would go full time with Ninja Robot Dinosaur, making Flash games on my own. But without the ability to program, there wasn’t a lot I could do.

I needed to learn how to program Flash games – and fast.
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Bytejacker is not only the best indie/downloadable game video podcast, it’s one of the most entertaining video podcasts I’ve seen.

True – this episode is filled with inside jokes, but Anthony Carboni… that dude makes me laugh.