Our dear friend in Tyke just finished recording an EP with Finn Miles member and talented producer Scott Gratton. The music isn’t online yet, but you can see Finn Miles and Tyke live at a couple of shows over the next month.
Archive > October 2009
A duo show at the Vaudeville Mews…tomorrow!
A lovely event is happening tomorrow…a Finn Miles duo show (Paul and Scott) at the Vaudeville Mews.
To boot there’s a cadre of excellent artists that we’re opening for….
Blurst Now Open to Other Developers
The awesome indie developers at Flashbang have opened up their website Blurst (http://www.blurst.com) wto submissions of Unity games from other developers.
Hopefully this will be a big success, since we as developers really need more Unity portals out there. I’ve been working on a couple small Unity games myself and have been a little uncertain if [...]
Des Moines Bike Laws…or… how I tried to bike and almost found myself dead
I was nearly run over by a very kind lady today. I was bicycling on a sidewalk and she turned out of a parking lot and nearly beaned me. She chided me for riding on the sidewalk and said I should be on the street.
Tips for new gigging bands
So, you’re in a band. Great! Your first gig has been booked and you’re looking forward to rocking out. Listed below a few tips to remember if you want your gigging career to be long and fruitful.
Reggie’s Sleepout – Drake University – Des Moines, IA – Earth
It’s getting cold in Des Moines, IA…making an event like Reggie’s Sleepout even more important.
Reggie’s Sleepout is a great event designed to help raise awareness and money to combat youth homelessness in central Iowa.
The Talented Mr. Scott Gratton
Oh, what a family! My brother, Scott Gratton is a natural talent. He’s been an asset to Finn Miles, as well as many other bands around the Midwest. Scott is finally starting to get his own splendid tunes out there. This video is from a short set played at the Mars Cafe in October, 2009. [...]
The Talented Seedlings
Something’s going on in Des Moines right now. A talented crop of singer/songwriters are releasing new music, playing incredible shows and raising the bar on the Midwest music scene.
One of these talented young lads is Danny Heggen of the Seedlings.
How to Run Spelunky in OS X
For those of you who haven’t heard yet, Derek Yu of TIGSource fame released a freeware game recently called Spelunky. As I found out recently, you can run the game in OS X without having to boot up Windows. I’ll show you how.
Here’s a description of Spelunky from Spelunky World:
Spelunky is a cave exploration / [...]
Star Guard Impressions
I’ve taken a few minutes here and there in the past few days to play Star Guard by Vacuum Flowers, after being introduced to it by my partner Mike via twitter. It just got frontpaged on TIGSource. Here’s an excerpt where Xander mentions his one qualm about the game:
Where as typically mines/traps would require caution [...]
