On Saturday night, the Los Angeles Amateur Photography Club held their annual showcase in Downtown LA. Our Art Director extraordinaire, Hao Cui, had two photos in the exhibition, one of which is pictured here with Hao:

Hao Cui with “The Doctor”

It was a really good show, and it was awesome to see Hao getting accolaides for one of his many other talents. That's why we love him – he is really quite good at just about everything you could want an artist to do.

You can see both photos in this slideshow of all the photos exhibited. Hao's are #25 & #26, “skyline” and “The Doctor.”

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Orisinal, a site of beautiful, simplistic, games by Ferry Halim added a new winter-themed game, which I found down right adorable, and hope you do, too.

If you haven't checked out Orisinal before, definitely look through the others. They are all very simple, but he often uses simple artistic touches to design or movement that give the games a very special feeling.

I really thought it was just going to be over once the consoles all launched. Like a group of hungry people who have finally been served, everyone would just be quiet and eat their food.

But not so. Already, there are articleson how the PS3 isn't living up to the hype. Granted, this was probably due to a lot of poor marketing choices on Sony's part. But what happened to it being about the GAMES. The critic takes three lines to note that, hey, he did actually enjoy PLAYING games on the thing.

This is life in the post-iPod world, though. Now that everyone is a digital user, everyone is a digital critic. There can't be more than one console, more than one mp3 player, more than one handheld gaming device.

I guess the media has to talk about SOMETHING, but critics like this guy bug the heck out of me.

Just calm down. Enojy the fact that you got paid to play video games for 30 hours last week.

Last night my friend and I went to check out the line outside of Best Buy and tell people about flOw. My friend grabbed some footage:

Around 150 people were camped outside. The guy at the front had been there since Monday night! It was pretty cool to see people so excited; I just love gamers.

Now, I do believe that there is plenty of room in this world for three consoles, and I do not support the console war in any way. However, it was neat when we asked the people in line if they were also getting a Wii and they responded with, “No way! PS3 rules!”