Busy in the Non-Virtual World

The sparseness of updates is quite simple: Max has been at work getting ready for operational review (after two days, passed! there was a chance we would not).. Einstein was taking some time off to take care of some stuff, and that's all patched up.. So....

Triggerheart Exelica just launched on XBox Live Arcade.. never heard of it, but it plays sweet!

Bioshock landed at Beacon High Command, and it rocks the fat ass!

Mass Effect has been dormant, but that is because Max can't figure out how to assign powers and skills yet.. his team gets wiped out at Fist, so he's gotta get that one down!

Sony sent Team Pencil a bunch of swag, so Pencil and Einstein will be modelling the stuff and the photos will be posted soon (one of our favorite words: SOON!) When stuff settles, everything will start flowing much better! Four Tokens Films looks sweet these days, even brought in some inspirational help on this one:

Pencil-Shavings.net soon to be revamped!

Sparse lately...

Seems school and work are disrupting Team Pencil recently. That and Poker Smash for the XBLA and Knarf's re-introduction to the Final Fantasy XI crowd as T3 Einstein and Burnout Paradise have kept us busy and messing around.

Did I mention Valentine's Day just happened? Max and Maxine spent the night at their favorite Indian restaurant in Fishkill, NY, and Einstein spent it with Mrs Einstein. A week before was Max's birthday, so he was off line for the weekend. Team Pencil are scheduling a new get together at Four Tokens Films studio in Fragville Junction West, while Max has been goofing around with the Windows Movie Maker bundled on his Vista Pewter (and plotting to get his RAM expanded to run Halo 2- Halo 2 with a mouse... schweeeeeeet!)

Check out some simple editing and goofing off at youtube.com/MaxPencil..

This is Pencil Shavings signing out for now!

DJ Frank T

.........behind the mic with Maxwell Einstein.!

Some Burnout Revenge and Paradise, mixed with some Static X:

DJ Knarf?

Einstein's handler, Knarf, is going to be doing some Internet DJ work on OCCC Colt Rock Radio, playing the classics and doing some other stuff!

Maybe we can get some Type O played (as long as it's a cover of a classic!)

I've never played it, but I've played one on TV

Chromehounds seemed like an interesting game to take up last year, even though it seemed to have more than its fair share of 360 killing RRoD accusations. I was told the gameplay was good, but only for online play, so Max decided to save some money, and just make himself a 'Hound at the game's website. Here it is:



It never saw battle, but it did somehow get to be something like #1700 out of 15000 rated hounds. Makes you wonder sometimes how internet stuff works!

Also, some music-themed XBox 360 faceplate work:



We were again side-tracked from the Spongebob review video, but we will get it up soon (of course!) Friday 2-1 we were distracted by school, lack of sleep, job interview prep, Thrillville, and WORMS!! Max finally got his 20,000 Damage achievement with: The Marx Brothers- Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Karl; and The Flying Circus- Silly Walks, Jabberwocky, Mr. Bungle, and (I always forget the last name!) against Knarf's Knights and Knarf's other crew.. Worms rocks the fat ass!

Super Bowl Weekend musings.. .. ..

Rez HD recently came out for the XBox 360 arcade, pretty good, but not a purchase as of yet. Still have to beat Mass Effect or Burnout Paradise first, maybe even venture back into Kameo to see what can be done about finishing that game. We'll be putting up a new video soon, so watch for it at MaxPencil's YouTube connection!