Mr. Shen - Arrogant

I can't grow a mustache or beard for the life of me. I find that people who do, without trying, are flouting their beard growing abilities.

Mr. Hu - Arrogant - Superman, that Asshole

He's always tagging buildings with his heat vision. Landlords were getting pissed at him until they realized they could sell his "autographs" in iron.

I got mine on Craigslist Metropolis!

Mr.Hu - Game On - ButtonMasher

This is a very humble game involving a single button and two LED lights. There are no graphics or story of any kind. It's a simple game of reflexes and button-mashing. When I can get my video-logging to work again, I will upload the footage of how you play it. I programmed basic C upon an Arduino board.


Happy Friday, everyone!

Mr. Shen - Game On - Going the Distance

I've been quite busy with my latest Flash game and decided that it would be appropriate to post it here. Namely that it is in a functional state and includes most of the core mechanics. The rest is polish.

With each game I make, I'm trying to categorize it a special way. The last one was a simulation. This one uses that "paper cut out" theme to make it seem like you're sitting at a poor person's version of a theatre and watching a crappy puppet show.

I'm hoping to get the game released by next week.

Link: Going the Distance (Work in Progress)

Mr. Shen - Reunited

I wanted to go with something as simple as possible. It's like that photo of the horse where it blends in with the hills in the background. You try and try to see it, but you just can't. Once you do, however, you can never unsee it.

This is a top down view of two people, holding each other. Can you see it?

Mr. Hu - Reunited - Time apart, time together

This is a wall clock concept designed to express the connections between the place/time where you are now, and alternate places/times that you have relationships with. It is based on a simple single unit.

I, for instance, recently moved to Brooklyn, NY. However, in many ways my heart remains in the San Francisco bay area. Three time zones away. The angle that New York and San Francisco make with respect to the Earth's core, is 45 degrees. So my home might contain two clocks, that show me the time of the multiple geographies of my identity.

A business might use this system to indicate all the places that they have offices globally. If for instance, my studio wanted to indicate all the places of birth of all our members - where many of our families remain, it would look like this...

Respresented: Hawaii, the contiguous United States, Poland, Turkey, Iran, India, and China.

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Nearly one year ago, from a clock we departed and with a clock we return. It's good to be back at Kickface again.

It's Coming Back.

After an one year hiatus, Kick Face Design is coming back! We'll be starting out slow, but then ramping up into the schedule that all four of you have come to love.

Stay tuned for next week's entry: Reunited.

How apropos.

Mr. Hu - Not Enough Time - The Perceptual Clock

A 24 hour clock arranged according to how I seem to perceive the passing of time through the course of an average work day.

Mr. Hu - My Body is a Cage - Escape!

I promised not to interpret it literally. You have no idea how hard it was to fight against the obvious visual pun in my mind. I count this semi-literal interpretation as a victory.

Mr. Hu - A Long Long Way

Looking at my oeuvre, I do seem to have an obsession with diagonals, don't I?

Mr. Hu - In the Future...

i will finally learn how to type.

Mr. Shen - In the future...

Mr. Shen here.

Someday in the future, Jason and I will look back at this time in our 20s and laugh. We will laugh so hard that we will not need exclamation points.