#wirewalker

[crimemore]

At Washington's National Building Museum, French daredevil Philippe Petit showed his skill of defying gravity.Petit still uses no safety net or harness at the age of 73 while walking  the wire.

[scarlettgauthor]

Dear Sam Reich,

It's me! Scarlett Gale! Back with another reason you should book me for one or more shows on DropOut! Well, it's like, three reasons:

I'm a solid tightwire walker.

I own my own tightwire.

I do tightwire burlesque (or would if more people would book me for it).

How many other people can say that? I will bring a unique energy to any DropOut show you would like me to be on. I will also bring a tightwire.

(This video is from Batman: The Animated Striptease, a Batman burlesque parody play I cowrote and coproduced in Seattle back in 2018. You'll be hearing more about my burlesque productions soon, which is both a promise and a threat.)

Thank you for your time, Scarlett Gale

[hagensalley]

Top Ten Games I Beat in 2023!

Yeah, I know I’m a bit late with this, but hey, life gets busy! I figured making this list would be a fun way to chill out between projects. Most of the games I played were on handheld devices since I’ve been totally hooked on indie games on my Steam Deck, and of course, playing my favorite Nintendo franchises on the Switch. This year was a blast! Here are the Top 10 games I finished in…

[prokopetz]

i'm not sure how relevant to your interests this is, but i've been digging and can't find anything and you're the last place i know of to ask for hyperspecific obscure game recommendations. would you happen to know of any zeldalike games inspired by zelda 1 specifically? i've been struggling to find anything that scratches that itch in the way i'm looking for.

My personal favourite is definitely Ittle Dew 2. It's admittedly not a pure example of the type, as it also incorporates Adventures of Lolo style block-pushing puzzles and frequent bullet-hell elements, particularly in the boss fights; however, it does hew close to its inspiration in its ungated, secret-laden overworld design, nonlinear dungeons, and a progression schema which takes pains to provide multiple developer-intended solutions to nearly every puzzle, minimising dependencies on obtaining upgrades in any particular order.

(Note that I'm specifying the second game in the series for a reason; the first game is a speedrun-centric puzzler that takes its primary inspiration from early 2000s Flash games. It's a neat piece of work if you enjoy lateral thinking, though; while it has only three items to obtain, each of them can be used to solve puzzles in multiple ways, and some of their interactions are very non-obvious.)

Beyond that, it's tough to say. There are other Zelda 1-likes out there, but they're for the most part very bad, and by policy I don't provide recs for games I wouldn't actually, you know, recommend. You only really start to see a range of solid titles to choose from among those that more closely emulate the franchise's early Game Boy instalments. If you're also willing to give that a try, you might have a look at Wirewalk()↳ – it's probably the purest example on my rec list.

[the-kr8tor]

Yep👍

Random thougt, Dick would be so shook if he saw Korean wirewalking

https://youtu.be/3K_MZqliOcI?si=WzgUG0m-ZMQN_G7F

Especially from 9:55, like, that's gotta hurt

Woahhhh that's pretty cool! I bet once he gets home he tries to recreate that lol

[harpoonataventure]

"Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way."

Man on Wire (2008)

[ctalnlifgr]

Ji Young Yu

Wirewalker

[tempi-dispari]

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Missincat, “Calling Your Name” il nuovo singolo

Esce oggi, venerdì 14 ottobre, “Calling Your Name”, il nuovo singolo della cantautrice, polistrumentista e produttrice Caterina Barbieri aka MISSINCAT. L’artista, di origini milanesi, vive a Berlino da diversi anni dove è diventata un fenomeno di culto della scena indie tedesca.

“Calling Your Name”, registrato e prodotto dalla stessa Caterina Barbieri, si sviluppa attorno a calde sonorità ritmiche e a voci eufoniche, per concludersi in un turbinio di synth e strumenti a corda.

Se la vita è un susseguirsi di porte che si aprono e si chiudono, con persone che a volte ti aiutano a passare mentre altre ti negano l’accesso, allora MISSINCAT nel suo nuovo singolo parla a coloro che la ostacolano. Ma la sua richiesta di poter brillare (“…oh, let me shine”) senza chiedere il permesso indica quindi la convinzione interiore di essere sulla strada giusta, indipendentemente da ciò che pensano gli altri.

Con il singolo “Calling Your Name” MISSINCAT annuncia inoltre l’uscita di un libro di canzoni prevista per il prossimo dicembre, in cui renderà accessibile per la prima volta su carta una raccolta di undici canzoni della sua discografia: in testo e accordi, in scrittura e immagine.

Pre-order: https://bit.ly/MISSINCAT_Songbook

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2L4TchQ54d2rHkhhCbiMGT?si=ffe7f9a1613e4f19

Cenni biografici

MISSINCAT, nome d’arte di Caterina Barbieri, vive a Berlino dal 2007. Con quattro album e un EP gode di una base di fan fedeli e di un posto fisso nella scena indie tedesca. L’artista, capace di reinventarsi in ogni sua pubblicazione, sa trasferire in ciascun lavoro una storia e una propria musicalità; al centro, però, c’è sempre la sua inconfondibile voce, delicata ed energica al tempo stesso.

Caterina Barbieri affonda le sue radici nella scena musicale milanese, suonando il basso e scrivendo canzoni nella band tutta al femminile Vertigini, grazie alla quale gira l’Italia. Dopo essersi trasferita nella mecca degli artisti, Berlino, debutta da solista con “Back On My Feet” (2009): il suo primo singolo, “Missincat”, entra subito nelle classifiche AirPlay e anche la critica apprezza immediatamente il suo lavoro.

Nel 2011 esce il suo secondo disco “WOW” che contiene il fortunato duetto “Capita” con il cantautore italiano Dente, seguito da “Wirewalker” (2015). Nel 2017 pubblica l’EP “Forces”: cinque tracce con cinque artisti diversi. Il brano di maggior successo di MISSINCAT, “Made Of Stone”, fa parte di questo EP. Con il suo ultimo album, “10” (2019), l’artista per la prima volta canta interamente nella sua lingua madre, dando vita a un indie pop caldo e senza tempo.

MISSINCAT ha all’attivo numerose tournée in Europa, Stati Uniti e Australia, una partecipazione al SXSW di Austin e ha aperto i concerti dei The XX e di Amy Winehouse, che ha accompagnato nel suo tour tedesco del 2008. Inoltre Caterina Barbieri lavora come produttore (per Jessica Einaudi, tra gli altri) e scrive musica strumentale per produzioni cinematografiche.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catcatcate/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MISSINCAT 

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5P9sPzKeZ0A6OEe3hQAR0v

[mrbopst]

Today in Bopst Booking, Photography & Design: 2016

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[tangochow]

#wirewalker #illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/CfqEHc2LVD5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[photographerofindia]

This little girl is balancing herself to keep a balance between life and death and to foster her parents. Daring act but out of compulsion to make livelihood🚶‍♀️ #tightropewalking #tightrope #tightropewalker #balance #wirewalker #tightwire #sempe #circusinspiration #zirkus #cyrk #sirkus #nature #rope #travelphotography #stonepainting #naturekids #guatemalatravel #storiesonstones #naturephotography #backpacking #circusartistcirque #circuseverydamnday #jeanjacquessempe #circusarts #circo #cirque #circus #yourshotphotographer #nikonphotography #natgeoyourshot (at Mount Abu) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjazHhDTtk/?igshid=1js952v82ges9

[seamus-liam-obrien]

The Spanish Wizard of the Wire: Hal Silvers King of the Tight Wire: Hubert Castle

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[dpendgracs]

Watching @nikwallenda #wirewalk the volcano in #nicaragua LIVE! https://www.instagram.com/p/B9VctH1pu5z/?igshid=1gayw0sds32xa

[prokopetz]

So Mina the Hollower became one of my most anticipated games basically the moment I saw it, but it also gave me a hankering for that style of game. The Zelda Oracle games can only sate me for so long, so is there a chance you know of anything in that particular style? Not being a stickler for graphics, either!

My favourite example of the type is definitely Lenna's Inception. It actually has two different tilesets you can switch between, one SNES-style and one GBC-style, so it conveniently hits the graphical criteria of your request as well as the gameplay ones. Don't let the "roguelike" tag that people keep sticking on it throw you; the overworld and dungeon maps are randomly generated for each save file, but they don't change when you die, and there's no particular way to lose progress unless you're playing in one of the challenge modes.

Just one caveat: if the trailers didn't make it obvious enough, it's one of those games whose story and mechanics go all meta near the end. This one takes it a bit further than most, with tileset corruption, wall clipping, and abnormal screen-wrapping behaviour all appearing as intended mechanics of play in the later portions of the game. Fair warning if that's a dealbreaker for you!

On the flip side, if brainfucky meta stuff is a selling point for you, you might have a look at Anodyne. Its gameplay and story might best be described as a hybrid of the GBC Zelda titles and a surrealist walking sim in the mode of Yume Nikki. The graphics are more GBA than GBC, though. Its sequel is much the same in its broad strokes, replacing the graphical style of the overworld walking sim bits with a reasonably accurate visual pastiche of early PS2 titles, while retaining the GBA-style dungeon segments. Both games warrant a content warning for discussion of suicidal ideation, with some mild body horror in the sequel as well.

Ittle Dew 2 is a weird little experiment in style. It’s trying to wed all the bells and whistles of contemporary 3D graphics with the aesthetic sensibilities of an NES game; the results are either charming or strikingly ugly, depending on who you ask. The gameplay takes a similar tack, attempting to combine modern puzzle design with the nonlinearity of early Zelda-likes, and for the most part it succeeds. Nearly every puzzle offers multiple intended solutions to accommodate varying combinations of inventory items, though the devs couldn’t anticipate everything, so it’s still possible to get roadblocked in places if you decide to tackle the dungeons in an exceptionally weird order.

(The previous game in the series may also be of interest, though it’s further afield of what you’re asking for. Here the puzzle-solving focuses on combining a very limited number of inventory items in complicated and often counter-intuitive ways, at times more closely resembling a point-and-click adventure game than a Zelda-alike in terms of the kind of lateral thinking involved.)

Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King is probably the least retro out of any title on this list. In spite of the chunky pixel graphics, it calls back to the SNES era in visual presentation only, being otherwise thoroughly modern in its approach to gameplay. Very fun story, though; it’s meta in the whimsical way rather than the brainfucky way, framed as an improvised yarn told by a grandfather to his grandchildren, with some very cute sequences where the plot jumps the tracks because kids decided to interject their own details. If this one grabs you, the forthcoming sequel is definitely worth keeping an eye on as well.

Finally, if you’re willing to check out something that turns the retro dial all the way back to Link’s Awakening, you might have a look at Wirewalk()↳. It’s one of the most faithful pastiches of the era it’s emulating that I’ve run into, and features creative dungeon design in the few dungeons it has. Fair warning about the length: it’s a very short game. If you’re experienced with the genre, you can probably shoot through a 100% playthrough in two to three hours.