The Download Munkey : Tracking the Treasure Down …

A new series of the adorable Spiky Baby paper toys by Shin Tanaka is ready for download This set of Spiky Babies is the largest collection yet with a total of 38 designs illustrated by artists and graphic designers worldwide.

© Shin Tanaka

My top nine in ascending order.

© Shin Tanaka

Terry’s Factory – Reminds me of a Chinese zombie aka Jiang Shi

© Shin Tanaka

Bshit – Love the smiley face with the eyepatch

© Shin Tanaka

Hariken – A nice depature from the usual cute designs

© Shin Tanaka

Akira’s Factory – Love the colours and the multiple eyes

© Shin Tanaka

Akishi Nishida – Mmm… Watermelons

© Shin Tanaka

Kazuhiro Hino – Reminds me of the masks worn by Luchadores (more masks & luchadores over @ deadlicious)

© Shin Tanaka

Koraters

© Shin Tanaka

Mochiwo – I think my dear thoo2 will love this one and the one below

© Shin Tanaka

Nekonoko

The rest of the Deluxe series below.














© Shin Tanaka

Oh yeah, even the box template is also available for download

© Shin Tanaka

As the templates are “blindboxed” and randomly chosen when you click on the Open a Box! button at the download page on Shin Tanaka’s official site, be prepared to click for a long time to collect the entire series (or use a Flash disassembler like Flasm – read my earlier introductory article on Flasm)

Download the Spiky Baby Deluxe Series toys.

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Papercraft Paradise – A Paradise for Machine Papercraft
Spiky Baby Series 08
Spiky Baby Series 07 & Mask Hoodies
Rogue Status Spiky Baby Series 02
Papercraft World

What do you get when you combine turntables, accordions, pianos and an assortment of drums together ?

Instead of the expected cacophony from the distinctively different sound of each instrument, the end result actually comes off as an infectiously toe-tapping, head-bopping soundtrack – I simply love the cheery carnival sounding clockordian and the machinegun clatter of cymbals (Loop 2).

© Luke Whittaker

My kind of band

While the loops for each instrument in Luke Whiitaker’s One Man Band has been carefully constructed and synchronized for each other, it’s still hard not to listen in disbelief when the sounds of contrasting instruments such as the clockordian (accordian), loop-o-lin (violin), piano and turntables actually meld so well together.

There’s definitely a limit to the number of tunes you can create with 12 ingeniously automated instruments and 24 audio loops but it’s still a lot of fun for a short break.

Build your own One Man Band or check out Luke Whittaker’s other works, his current project being Stigmatisation to raise awareness of HIV in Sierra Leone.

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Saiko – Cool Electronic Music Generator
Make your Own Tracks with Orange Mixer
Best Practice 1.01 – Speed up or Slow down Audio

A cool, easy to use application to those who like their music electronic, pulsating (and optionally bleepy ).

© Arguru

By adjusting sliders with complex names like VCF Env Inertia and Oscillating Mix, you get to create a myriad of electronic sounds that range from acidic (my 15 seconds sample with settings shown above – max out the resonance for an acid trip) to trancey stuff (my 15 seconds sample using settings below).

© Arguru

© Arguru

My favourite settings involve heavy basslines (my 15 seconds sample with above configuration).

The download below is the last publicly released version of Saiko – version 1.0 R9. The author, Juan Antonio Arguelles Rius (Arguru), stopped development back in 2003 and will never complete since he unfortunately passed away in a traffic accident last June RIP Arguru.

Download Saiko 1.0 R9 from Aodix Arguru Software (the FMOD.dll in this package seems to be of an incorrect version – try downloading from here if it doesn’t work for you).

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Rebirh RB-338 – Free Drum Machine
Orange Mixer – Create your own Electronic Tracks Online

The lovable brown mascot for Japan’s NHK TV station, Domo-kun, has his (its?) own official website @ www.domomode.com – thanks to dear for reading about this in a local Chinese daily (the 19 Dec 2007 edition to be exact)

© NHK Enterprises

There’s three wallpapers for download as shown above as well as 10(!) different Javascript clock widgets for you to embed on your website. Time is set to the Japanese timezone which is GMT +09:00 (one hour ahead of SG time).

© NHK Enterprises

The ‘official’ names for the above widgets arranged from left to right, top to bottom:

1. Bird
2. Forest
3. Egg
4. Mushroom
5. Snake
6. Bear Ornament
7. Eating
8. Rock
9. Usaji
10. Secret

Download these Domo-kun wallpapers and clock widgets @ www.domomode.com.

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Cute Dead Things Wallpapers
Cool Spiky Baby & Mask Hoody Paper Toys by Shin Tanaka
Makibishi Comic – Cute Japanese Point & Click Flash Game
The Bitter Stickgirl

Saw this over a while back at Geeknews, a great source for interesting stuff and despite the title, it’s not necessarily for geeks only . MyMinicity.com is a Flash site by French developers Motion-Twin (creators of one of my newfound online addictions – Dinoparc.com) where you can build your own virtual city @ mycity.myminicity.com.

Geeknews City

The city automatically grows when visitors enter your city by going to mycity.myminicity.com directly. After a set number of inhabitants, the city can only further evolve when visitors enter via the infrastructure links provided on your city page e.g mycity.myminicity.com/ind to expand your industrial sectors thereby reducing the unemployment rate and prevent jobless inhabitants from leaving your city. Different infrastructure links are ‘unlocked’ as the city grows in size and population.

Since visitors have to enter the infrastructure links directly, you have to advertise these links on your blog, forum signatures (and possibly spam email ) for a chance to really expand the city.

While the entire process of city evolution is completely non-interactive, it still feels like a city-building sim where you derive some weird sense of satisfication from seeing a couple of humble huts expanding to a town and (hopefully) to a bustling city like the one below.

Kuala Lumpur – the biggest city in MyMinicity.com for the Malaysian zone. There isn’t a Singapore zone, though

Create your own virtual city at MyMinicity.com or help expand Geeknews City by increasing its population or improving its industry, transport (currently unavailable), security (currently unavailable), environment (currently unavailable)and business (currently unavailable).