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A Quick-Witted Love Letter From Indie Hollywood's Favorite Cousins
Film royalty Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman conspire with YouTube virtuoso Graydon Sheppard of "Sh*t Girls Say" fame to create today's videogram, which features the cousin duo bantering on love and obsession. Shooting six-second vignettes on the iPhones inspired by Twitter's new mobile app Vine, Sheppard pays homage to Coppola's latest feature A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, whose comic flavor hinges on absurdist amorous pursuits. The film stars Charlie Sheen as an unrepentant LA playboy who spirals out of control when his girlfriend leaves him and enlists the help and guidance of best friend Kirby Star—played by Schwartzman—to win her back in a 1970s-style romp complete with surreal revenge fantasies and winking parallels to Sheen's own very public meltdown. A recent Academy Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay, Coppola is the son of polymath Francis Ford and brother of fellow filmmaker Sofia; Schwartzman, meanwhile, has made a name for himself starring in Wes Anderson films from Rushmore to Moonrise Kingdom, on which Roman collaborated, and cousin Sofia's Marie Antoinette. From major film production to casual smart phone clips, Coppola and Schwartzman know how to keep their sense of humor, while keeping it in the family. We caught up with Roman to go deeper into his amorous inspirations.
First serious kiss:
It was in Morocco. I was 16. The girl was an actress in a movie I was working on. We started off kissing through a piece of fabric—as a tease, she was holding back. Then, the real thing.
Favourite romantic exchange in movie:
Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window. Or a more cynical choice, from Gilda:
Johnny Farrell: I want to go with you, Gilda. Please take me. I know I did everything wrong...
Gilda: [sobbing] Isn't it wonderful? Nobody has to apologize, because we were both stinkers, weren't we? Isn't it wonderful?
Johnny Farrell: Wonderful.
Craziest thing you've ever done for love:
I can't think of anything too crazy.
Love song-cum-guilty pleasure:
"I melt with you," by Modern English.
Filmmaker Gia Coppola Conjures a Las Vegas Love Story for Her Cousin's New Music Video
Musician Robert Schwartzman stars as a debt-ridden goofball on the run from the mob who falls for a blackjack dealer, played by Chinese actress Zhang Jingchu, in director Gia Coppola's new video for "All My Life". The video remixes footage from Coppola's recent short film Casino Moon, shot over two frantic days and nights on location in Nevada's gambling mecca. A Sin City-based homage to romantic heist movies like Badlands and Bonnie and Clyde, the short was made as part of a series commissioned by director Alexi Tan for Elle China and premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival earlier this year. Written when Schwartzman was single and channeling the feeling of being by oneself, "All My Life" is taken from the Rooney frontman's debut solo album Double Capricorn released last year and was adapted to soundtrack Casino Moon. "When you fall in love you kind of build your own little world together and lose touch of the other world," explains Schwartzman. "In Gia's short, they fall in love pretty quickly, keeping up with the Vegas speed of things. I feel like it's an adventure, like love is an adventure." A member of the filmmaking dynasty, Coppola's fashion films for the likes of Opening Ceremony, United Arrows and DvF—imbued with the laconic eccentricity of her native Los Angeles—have cemented her reputation as a rising cinematic talent. Here, cousins Schwartzman and Coppola talk Vegas time warps and electric blue suits.
Robert Schwartzman: This is the first time we went to Vegas together. My first trip there was when I turned 21. I thought I cracked the code. I thought I could beat the system. I ended up winning a lot of money, and then losing it, and then a lot more.
Gia Coppola: I remember when you came back from that trip and everyone was like, "Don't mention Vegas to Robert." You were so bummed.
RS: I lost a lot of money. I got cocky. Anyway, I think Vegas is actually really calming. All the energy and craziness is relaxing in a weird way. I don't know what it is. I like being awake and knowing that there is so much life going on. You lose track of time.
GC: Yeah, that's one of the reasons why I like it. Everything is alive to some extent—there's always someone around. That's why grandpa [Francis Ford Coppola], your uncle, used to always go there to write: you can always get a burger at any time of night, you never know what time it is, and you never feel the pressure to go to bed.
RS: When you play shows there the bus parks in the back, you enter through the employee entrance and eat at the behind-the-scenes buffet with all the showgirls and cocktail waitresses. It's pretty wild. You feel like you are part of something that most people don't get to see.
GC: Whoa. It's so hard to imagine what it's like to live there so it's nice when you get to actually see people kind of off duty. You can be as weird as you want in Vegas and no one will judge you.
RS: One time I was in Vegas and I had on this pea coat that I had made in electric blue leather. Very bold, very bright, like neon blue almost. It looked really ridiculous. My brother was with me and there was this dude in a snakeskin suit who was staring at me, in awe of my jacket. My brother was like, "Even a man in a snakeskin suit was impressed by your electric blue pea coat!"
GC: I feel like we're more siblings than cousins. You used to drive me to school every morning and rub my face in the dirt.
RS: I always thought I was so much older than you because I'd have to babysit you. When everyone would go see a movie they'd leave me behind with you. Even though we were so close in age. In my mind I was always looking out for you. A lot of memories.
GC: We always had to share a room on family trips.
RS: Yeah, eating at the kids table and going on family trips. You and I spent the most time together. We just have fun together.
GC: We're still the kids.
An Erotic Subversion of the Ultimate Amorous Icon from Creative Wunderkind Bart Hess
Sheath your arrows: the voluptuous red heart, international symbol of love, is reimagined in this a visceral new short by genre-defying Dutch artist Bart Hess. With echoes of high-tech fetish fashion and Jeff Koons' contemporary pop art classic "Hanging Heart," Hess' latest video stages a Sapphic encounter from within crimson latex balloons. "I want to create a tension between the body and material—almost as though they become one," says the multidisciplinary creative, whose work at the edge of sensation has included collaborations with Nick Knight and Lucy McRae, a neon fantasy for Tod's and a head-to-toe slime outfit for the artwork to Lady Gaga's last album Born This Way. Here Hess turns to fringe science, confessing a fascination with the mysterious phenomenon of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR). "It's a physical sensation that most people describe as a tingling in the head or a 'brain orgasm' that can be caused by all kinds of sounds," he explains of the intense experience, which, if you believe its proponents, can be provoked by online uploads of mundane tasks. "One video that definitely triggers something with me is of a woman playing with a balloon. Together with an amazing team I translated the idea into my own short."
What material are the balloons made from?
Bart Hess: They're actually just normal balloons, but giant. I wanted to create the feeling that the balloons were made of fluid metal, so we made them really shiny with loads of lube.
Could the models breathe in there?
BH: Yes, of course! We tested with the balloons for weeks to make sure it was safe. You can actually stay in there for about 10 minutes but for the shoot we only did takes of two minutes. We were really lucky with the models—they weren't scared at all and knew how to pose, even with two-meter balloons on their heads.
Any risqué anecdotes from the set?
BH: We were shooting this amazing shot of the girls' interaction. After some minutes I felt the models should get some fresh air. With my Dutch accent I said "Girls it is time to breathe now!" Awkwardly, the girls thought I said, "Girls, it is time to breed now!"
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Christmas might have passed, but the Christmas spirit is still alive in East Texas.Employees at The Jalapeno Tree in Kilgore are celebrating after a secret tipper left well over your average 15 percent last Sunday.Lenora Hill was closing out her table, trying to save up money for the holidays, when she got an extra boost Sunday."I just walked by to get his bill, like any other table, and he had a hundred dollar bill under it," Hill explained.The total was less than the tip!"It was really nice, I didn't want to take it at first, because I felt kind of bad, but he insisted," she said.It didn't stop there, he also insisted on leaving something else."He just said it was for Christmas and then that's when he had me go get the manager," she said.He asked the manager how many employees worked there, not just that morning, but in total.The phone call Store Director, EJ Chowdhury, got later was nothing short of a Christmas miracle, he says."He just said some guy is leaving the whole staff 50 dollars apiece," he said.Stories like this have swept across the US, with big tippers like "TipsForJesus," the anonymous Instagram user, leaving thousands for a cheap meal."I didn't think it would happen here," Hill said.That extra change changed everything, she said."Man, it meant everything, I wasn't going to be able to get my brother or my oldest sister anything for Christmas because I just didn't have the money because I have bills and everything to pay, and then after he gave me that I was able to go get them something for Christmas."Even employees who weren't working that day came back to a $50 tip."We're very grateful. It was very generous of somebody to do that," Crystal Warren, a waitress, said, "sometimes we struggle from time to time, so it'll help a lot of us get through those holidays."Those secret tippers are not just spreading the wealth, they are spreading good cheer.That anonymous tipper left a total of more than $2,000 at that Jalapeno Tree.Servers and managers were included in that big tip and staff that wasn't there that day, too.Copyright 2013 KLTV. All rights reserved.
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Booths offering arts and crafts and food drew crowds despite triple-digit temperatures, and many young people entertained onlookers with a fashion show, dances and singing, including a Christian rap performance.
Dequan Carter, 19, performed with Crusaders 4 Christ, a men's drill team from San Mateo's Church of Christ. Afterward, he said he and his peers need to take an active part in telling their families' stories.
"When we come to events like this and see our roots and our history, we as young people should pass the legacy on — pass it on to the next generations," he said.
Toni Beckham, the chief information officer for TAAA, called the all-day party in the park a "celebration of our heritage" and said one focus is getting children and young adults involved.
She said Juneteenth is the biggest event of the year for TAAA and a major fundraiser for the group's annual scholarships.
"Our mission is to support the kids, their heritage and their education," Beckham said. "We make it a point to inform them what Juneteenth is and why we celebrate it."
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day when slaves in Texas learned they had been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation more than two years earlier. The former slaves celebrated with song, dance and food, a tradition that has spread throughout the country in recent years.
Denzel Black, 19, a member of the Crusaders 4 Christ drill team, was emphatic about the importance of taking part in events like Juneteenth.
"You have got to know where you come from," he said. "Today's a good event for fellowship — we can praise God at this event."
Lana Morehead, who has attended Juneteenth in Tracy for several years, said she has seen younger people take greater responsibility for the celebration.
"I see a change in this event — it was geared toward the older people, now it has a lot of young people," she said. "I think it's a good idea. The older people are aging out. I think all cultures pass on what they know to the younger people."
Winners of the TAAA Wayne Nelson Academic Scholarship were also recognized Saturday.
The recipients — all local residents — were LaRae Adams from Kimball High School, Miles Barrett from Delta Charter High School, Deja Pointer from Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland and Michael Young, Kahe Kaye and Ernest Turner from West High School.
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A 12-year-old Rockland County girl has died of bacterial meningitis, according to public health officials.
She died Saturday at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern.
The girl was a sixth-grade student at St. Gregory Barbarigo Elementary, a Catholic School in Garnerville.
The school is currently closed for the Easter holiday but parents are being notified.
Dr. Anil Vaidian, the acting medical director of the Rockland County Health Department, and his staff are tracking down classmates, parents, teachers, and anyone else who came into close contact with the child because they will need preventive antibiotic treatments.
"Close contact" with the girl is considered coming into contact with her saliva though kissing, sharing drinks or food, or sharing spoons, forks, or other utensils, officials said.
Health officials said that the period of exposure was Friday, March 22, through Friday, March 29, 2013.
People who had casual contact with the girl do not need to get antibiotics, health officials said.
Father Joseph Lamorte told Fox 5's Lisa Evers that St. Gregory Barbarigo will have special counselors available to the children when they return from Easter break next week.
So far, no one else has become ill, the Rockland Health Department said.
Meningitis is a severe bacterial infection that covers the brain and spinal cord. It causes high fever, headache, vomiting and stiff neck and can lead to brain damage, hearing loss and death.
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Electronic Systems Consultants is the company that made it so. The Colorado-based design company has this little beauty featured on its website. The room includes seating for nine, motorized sliding doors, smart concert-type lighting and related AMX controls, HVAC, audio, video and more.
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"Pairing artisan wines with exquisite art and furnishings in an historic setting." — Michael Polenske
Ma(i)sonry Napa Valley showcases a rotating collection of wines from the following vintner partners and respective winemakers: Blackbird Vineyards (Aaron Pott), Captûre Wines (Glenn Alexander), Casa Piena (Thomas Brown), Coup de Foudre (Kent Jarman), Entre Nous Wines (Philippe Melka), Fisher Vineyards (Whitney Fisher), Hirsch Vineyards (Ross Cobb), Husic Vineyards (Michael Hirby), Juslyn Vineyards (Craig MacLean), Lail Vineyards (Philippe Melka), Ma(i)sonry Napa Valley (Aaron Pott), Pahlmeyer (Kale Anderson and Bibiana González Rave), Pedras Wine Company (Jamey Whetstone), Pott Wine (Aaron Pott), R.A. Harrison Family Cellars (Roger Harrison), Recuerdo Wines (Santiago Achával and Pablo Martorell), Renteria Wines (Karen Culler), Rivera Vineyards (Karen Culler), Skipstone (Philippe Melka), TOR Kenward Family Wines (Jeff Ames), Tuck Beckstoffer Wines (Tuck Beckstoffer), and Uvaggio (Jim Moore).
Enjoy a wine tasting experience in one of three private rooms in the historic house or the outdoor gardens which are landscaped around architectural remnants, contemporary sculpture and a stone fire pit. Please check back frequently for updates on tasting flight offerings.
Blackbird Vineyards - Oak Knoll District, Napa Valley
Founded in 2003 by Michael Polenske, Blackbird Vineyards is an artisanal producer of Pomerol-inspired wines from the Napa Valley. Planted in 1997, the vineyard is located in the heart of the Oak Knoll District - a region appreciated for its moderate climate and deep, gravelly soils. The vineyard's valley floor topography presents optimum growing conditions for winemaker Aaron Pott to produce elegantly styled, appropriately balanced red wines that offer short and long term cellaring potential.
Captûre Wines - Sonoma County
Captûre Wines represents the marriage of time-honored Bordeaux winemaking with the intense fruit character of their organically farmed mountain estate, Tin Cross Vineyards.
Casa Piena - Yountville, Napa Valley
Casa Piena embodies an intimate relationship between the Policy family and a remarkable piece of land, located in the heart of Yountville's Cabernet country. Their select estate vineyard is meticulously cared for with a passionate commitment to growing Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc that exhibits profound depth and character. Casa Piena is blessed to have exceptional fruit that allows them to handcraft wines of restrained power, great integrity and supreme elegance.
Coup de Foudre - Napa Valley and Sonoma County
Coup de Foudre (koo dah foo drah) is the moment when "lightning strikes" or something unforgettable occurs that you want to capture forever. A team with extensive wine experience, Danielle Price, former Director of Wine at Wynn Resorts and John Schwartz, owner of Amuse Bouche Winery in Napa Valley, have embarked on a collaborative path to create a unique wine portfolio with elements worthy of a Coup de Foudre.
Entre Nous Wines - Oakville, Napa Valley
Entre Nous is a small family estate winery dedicated to hand-crafted exquisite wine making. Their wine derives its strength and soul from the bonds "Entre Nous," meaning "between us." They believe that the connections between us bring the greatest joy, the highest passion and the most authentic satisfaction in a frequently impassive, impersonal and impatient world. This fundamental belief has inspired the Entre Nous wines.
Fisher Vineyards - Napa Valley and Sonoma County
Founded in 1973 by Fred and Juelle Fisher, Fisher Vineyards grows and produces wines from both its Napa Valley Estate and Spring Mountain Estate (Sonoma County). Today, Fred and Juelle's three children, Whitney, Robert and Cameron, have joined Fisher Vineyards and are leading the way to a second generation of fine wines.
Hirsch Vineyards - Cazadero, California
Perched on a ridge overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Fort Ross, Hirsch Vineyards is the birth ground of great pinot noir on the extreme Sonoma Coast. David Hirsch founded the vineyard in 1980 to grow fruit and make site-specific wine. From the start, all efforts have been on the growing of fruit that makes wines profoundly characteristic of the site – vintage after vintage.
Husic Vineyards - Stags Leap, Napa Valley
In 1997, on a hillside overlooking the Stags Leap District of Napa Valley, the Husic Family set out to realize a lifelong dream. Moving endless rocks and sculpting narrow terraces that cling to the mountain's edge, they planted three small Cabernet Sauvignon vineyards, which peacefully coexist with the region's wildlife. These rugged, rocky growing conditions, combined with careful farming methods, have yielded a limited amount of magnificent fruit, thus a spectacular Cabernet Sauvignon.
Juslyn Vineyards - Spring Mountain, Napa Valley
Perry and Carolyn have committed to making the best wine possible in the heart of Napa Valley's acclaimed Spring Mountain District. Having received 90+points from accredited publications like Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (December 2003) and Wine and Spirits Magazine (August 2004), the Butler's are proving that they are on the path of success and truly living the American dream.
Lail Vineyards - Napa Valley
Crafting exquisite wines has been the Lail family's greatest passion. For over 125 years, their quest for perfection and spirit of discovery has cultivated some of the most treasured wines around the world. Located in Napa Valley, the vineyards are meticulously cared for with the use of sustainable farming. As stewards of the land, the Lail family's desire is to allow the wines to define themselves in the vineyards, with as little interference as possible.
Ma(i)sonry - Napa Valley
Crafted by Blackbird Vineyards' winemaking team, these small lot, limited-production wines are as richly textured as each of Ma(i)sonry's timeless art and design collections. Sourced from premium Napa Valley vineyards, the Ma(i)sonry Marsanne and Sauvignon Blanc offers optimum fruit character and pedigree. Terroir combined with world-class winemaking creates some of Napa Valley's finest and varietally distinctive wines.
Pahlmeyer - Napa Valley
Jayson Pahlmeyer has been producing highly sought-after, seductive, hedonistic wines since 1986. Pahlmeyer's flagship wine is the Proprietary Red, a Napa Valley Bordeaux blend, and Chardonnay, Merlot and Pinot Noir round out this stunning portfolio. These wines are produced from exceptional mountain vineyards in the Napa Valley and Sonoma Coast, including the Pahlmeyer family's Waters Ranch and Wayfarer Farm. These vineyards, coupled with winemakers Kale Anderson and Bibiana Gonzalez Rave's passion and talent, turn out wines with power and finesse.
Pedras Wine Company - Stags Leap District, Napa Valley
Located just south of the Stags Leap District in the Napa Valley, this rocky hillside vineyard produces limited quantities of complex, intensely flavored Cabernet Sauvignon. Grapes are selected from the most expressive four-acre site in the vineyard, keeping case production at approximately 300-500 cases per vintage.
Pott Wine - Napa Valley
Pott Wine represents the culmination of 20 years of professional winemaking experience by Aaron Pott. The wine portfolio is a true reflection of time and place, showcasing hand-selected Napa Valley sites and appellations.
R.A. Harrison Family Cellars - Napa Valley
After 25 years of creating wine for Beringer Vineyards, Roger Harrison, who was trained by three renowned legends in the wine industry, Myron and Alice Nightingale and Edward Sbragia, decided the time was right to venture out on his own. R.A. Harrison Family Cellars specializes in late harvest botrytis cinera (noble rot), style wines.
Recuerdo Wines - Argentina
Recuerdo Wines offers enthusiasts the opportunity to experience premium wines, both north and south of the Equator, through its partnership with Blackbird Vineyards in Napa Valley and The Vines of Mendoza in Argentina. Recuerdo means "memory" or "memento" in Spanish. As such, the Recuerdo winemaking team of Santiago Achával and Pablo Martorell passionately believes that each bottle of Recuerdo should not only represent Argentina's unique terroir within the high-altitude Uco Valley, but also serve as a memory of each and every harvest.
Renteria Wines - Napa Valley, Russian River
For the Renterias, an old Napa Valley family of grape growers, true success in winemaking has come from love of the land. This great love has been passed on to the family's next generation of growers. The family's dedication to innovation and hard work is evident in the quality of their wines. Renteria Wines are sourced from vineyards in prized appellations, such as: Stags Leap, Mount Veeder, Carneros, Russian River and Sonoma Coast.
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GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) - Emotions ran hot, both on the field and in the stands, as the Green Bay Packers defense led the charge in a 23-10 win over the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field Thursday.
Constant pressure from the Packers (1-1) defense made life miserable for Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, who was sacked seven times, threw 4 interceptions and otherwise danced around. Linebacker Clay Matthews got 3-and-a-half of those sacks, and cornerback Tramon Williams pick off two of those errant passes.
Special teams played a key part as well, with 3 Mason Crosby field goals and a fake one, which turned into a Tim Masthay pitch to backup tight end Tom Crabtree, who ran 27 yards for a touchdown.
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers 22-of-32 for 219 yards, 1 touchdown and 1 interception. Former Bears running back Cedric Benson got 116 total yards, including 81 on the ground.
The Bears fall to 1-1.
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Karateka is Back!
I'm excited to announce that my new remake of Karateka — the game I've been working on with a small, independent team for the past 18+ months — is now available on Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360. (Versions for PlayStation 3, Steam, and Apple iOS are coming soon.)
Here's our official launch trailer — written and directed by Adam Lisagor, who infused the trailer with his nostalgic memories of playing Karateka at age six on an Apple II:
I'll post more in coming weeks about the process of making Karateka, then and now: in 1982-84 as a college student on a 48K Apple II, and in 2011-12, as creative director of a bigger (but still small) team using modern game development tools. It's a great excuse to dig into my archives and uncover old-school souvenirs like this one.
My goal in remaking Karateka was to recapture the simplicity of the original in a compact, reasonably priced (under US$10) downloadable game, with gameplay so straightforward that players of all ages could immediately grasp it and start having fun right away — while enjoying a dramatic human story.
I hope readers will give the new game a try. I'd love to hear your reactions, whether you played the original Karateka in the 1980s or are encountering it now for the first time. Send me a tweet (@jmechner on twitter), post your comment below, or (if you have a question of general interest that you'd like to see answered on the site) email me.
The Karateka website has up-to-date information on game availability on the various platforms. And don't forget to punch the hawk!
The Last Express Arrives on iOS
Update: The Last Express has just been released for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch! Check it out in the App store.
I tested the final version yesterday on a long transatlantic flight (Frankfurt-LAX, with headphones), and it's my new favorite way to play it. Next to playing on an actual train, that is.
Here's the trailer:
Prince of Persia Source Code
My Apple II-unaware friend Jamie walked into my office this morning, surveyed the detritus of yesterday's marathon source-code extraction, and asked "Good Lord, what happened here?!"I explained that the original Prince of Persia source code had just turned up after being lost for 22 years, and that two stalwart companions and I had dedicated most of the previous day and night to extracting it and posting it on github.
Jamie — who knows the term "source code" primarily as the title of the movie Jake Gyllenhaal did after Prince of Persia — digested my explanation; then, looking as confused as before, asked "Why?!?"
It was such a simple question, it stumped me for a moment. Why would I spend a whole day trying to recover data from some ancient floppy disks?
I said: "Because if we didn't, it might have disappeared forever."
Why source code?Non-programming analogy: Video game source code is a bit like the sheet music to a piano sonata that's already been performed and recorded. One might reasonably ask: If you have the recording, what do you need the sheet music for?
You don't, if all you want is to listen and enjoy the music. But to a pianist performing the piece, or a composer who wants to study it or arrange it for different instruments, the original score is valuable.
It's possible, up to a point, to reverse-engineer new source code from a published video game, much as a capable musician can transcribe a musical score from listening to a performance. But in both cases, there's no substitute for the original document as a direct line to the creator's intentions and work process. As such, it has both practical and historical value, to the small subset of the game-playing/music-listening community that cares.
This is why I was so sorry to have lost the Prince of Persia source code, and happy to find it again.
Lost and found (Geek quotient = 9)
If you've read my 1980s game dev journals, you know that by the time Prince of Persia shipped in 1989, I was burned out on coding and seriously eager for the next chapter of my life to start. So I did what most programmers would do: I backed up my Apple II source code onto 3.5″ floppies, stuck it in a box, and promptly forgot about it.
Thirteen years later, when I looked for that box of source code again, I couldn't find it. I was in Montreal with an amazing team making Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Lead programmers Dominic Couture and Claude Langlais had volunteered to port the original POP to the PlayStation 2, and slip it into our new game as an easter egg. (This was their idea of a fun respite from crunch time.) All they needed was the source code. But as much as we searched — from my garage to Broderbund's archives to Doug Carlston's basement — it was nowhere to be found.
Finally we tracked down Scott Shumway, who'd done the 1992 Mac port of POP. He didn't have the Apple II source code either, but he did have the Mac source code. Dom and Claude made short work of porting it to the PS2, and Sands of Time got its easter egg. Everyone was happy.
On my return to LA, I dug deeper, and turned up a whole shoebox full of Apple II floppies, some dating back to high school. The source code to all my early games was in there: Deathbounce, Karateka. But no POP.
I didn't need the source code for anything; and it wasn't as if POP had been lost to history — vintage Apple II POP copies (and their disk images) were widely available — but still, it bothered me to think that something I'd spent years working on was just gone. I felt dumb for not having kept a copy.
This was eight years ago. I gave up the search and forgot about it.
Until two weeks ago, when my Dad shipped me a carton of my stuff he'd found cleaning out the closets of his New York apartment. Inside was the source code archive I'd mislaid in 1990.
Paper is forever
Here's the thing about digital backups and magnetic storage media: They don't last very long.
Try popping your old 1980s VHS and Hi-8 home movies into a player (if you can find one). Odds are at least some of them will be visibly degraded or downwright unplayable. Digital photos I burned onto DVD or backed up onto Zip disks or external hard drives just ten years ago are hit and miss — assuming I still have the hardware to read them.
Whereas my parents' Super 8 home movies from the 1960s, and my grandparents' photos from the 1930s, are still completely usable and will probably remain so fifty years from now.
Pretty much anything on paper or film, if you pop it in a cardboard box and forget about for a few decades, the people of the future will still be able to figure out what it is, or was. Not so with digital media. Operating systems and data formats change every few years, along with the size and shape of the thingy and the thing you need to plug it into. Skip a few updates in a row, and you're quickly in the territory where special equipment and expertise are needed to recover your data. Add to that the fact that magnetic media degrade with time, a single hard knock or scratch can render a hard drive or floppy disk unreadable, and suddenly the analog media of the past start to look remarkably durable.
This is why, when I posted about finding the POP source code, digital archivist Jason Scott, Apple II collector Tony Diaz, Derek Moore, and the technical teams behind the DiscFerret and Kryoflux disk readers volunteered their time and effort to give us the best possible shot at a successful extraction.
Let me begin to count the ways I've been lucky with this: The box was found. The disks were intact. Prince of Persia and I happened to have a high enough public profile that people of Jason and Tony's caliber (and dozens of others who contributed their expertise via IRC, skype and twitter from around the world) cared.
In the bigger picture, our timing was lucky. The 1980s and the Apple II are long enough ago to be of historical interest, yet recent enough that the people who put the data on the disks are still with us, and young enough to kind of remember how we did it. Roland Gustafsson, author of the special 18-sector RWTS routines that had made our disks super-efficient in 1988 (and unreadable to anyone but us), was able to get on IRC in 2012 and explain what he'd done to Discferret kids who weren't born then.
For all these lucky reasons, our archaeological expedition was crowned with success.
From a preservationist point of view, the POP source code slipped through a window that is rapidly closing. Anyone who turns up a 1980s disk archive 20 or 30 years from now may be out of luck. Even if it's something valuable that the world really cares about and is willing to invest time and money into extracting, it will probably be too late.
This is why it's awesome that there are people out there working on digital preservation. Because now is the time.
Back up your backups
Jason suggests the following rule of thumb: If you have data you want to keep for posterity, follow the Russian doll approach. Back up your old 20GB hard drives into a folder on your new 200GB hard drive. Next year, back up your 200GB hard drive into a folder on your new 1TB hard drive. And so on into the future.
As for me, the past 48 hours have been a fun walk down memory lane. And have given me a renewed appreciation for paper, celluloid, and stone tablets.
(Postscript: For 6502 assembly-language aficionados, the Prince of Persia source code is now up on github, along with a README file that answers some frequently asked questions. I've been amazed and moved by the outpouring of interest in the #popsource saga — it literally crashed this website for several hours today.)
Now, I really need to get back to my day job of making up new stuff. I can only hope to have the same lucky, glorious headache of trying to recover some of it 20 years from now.
Further reading:
"Making of Prince of Persia" game development journal
25-year capsule history of Prince of Persia
Código Fuente de Prince of Persia – ¡Posteado! (Spanish translation of this post)
Raiders of the Lost Archives
Two weeks ago, my Dad shipped me a box that, to my joy, contained the original Apple II Prince of Persia source code archive I'd stowed away 20 years ago and had given up for lost.
Despite my eagerness to see what's on those disks, I've yet to pop them in a drive. As readers of this site have cautioned me, digital media degrade with age; if the disks are in a fragile state, normal handling could damage them further and even render them unreadable.
In today's guest post, digital archivist Jason Scott explains why reading 20-year-old floppy disks is trickier than it sounds — and why he's volunteered to fly from NY to LA on Monday with special equipment to tackle the job himself.
Monday will be an exciting day. Much like opening a long-sealed sarcophagus, I truly have no idea whether we'll find what we're hoping for, or just data dust. For anyone who wants to share the suspense, we'll be live-tweeting our progress. Hashtag: #popsource. (I wanted to use #sourcecode, but it was taken!)
Meanwhile, here's Jason's story, offering a glimpse behind the scenes of a profession whose existence I couldn't have foreseen or imagined when I was making Prince of Persia in the 1980s: Digital archeologist.
I first heard about Prince of Persia in a somewhat strange fashion; a high school friend said that David's older brother was working on a new game to follow up his big hit Karateka. I asked what it was about, and he said it was something about Persian princes and acrobatics. I left it at that, but I knew it'd be great, if Karateka was any indication.
I went to Horace Greeley High School after Jordan, and knew his brother, David, who graduated the same year as me. David was the motion model for Prince of Persia. Jordan was this talented figure somewhere out in the fog of the real world, who was making actual, sold-everywhere games with a company I really liked and respected (Broderbund), and was basically living the dream I hoped to live one day: game developer.
(My own dream was fulfilled — I did work for a short time at Psygnosis, makers of Wipeout, as a tech support phone monkey, and another year stint at a startup game studio, before moving on to other places in the computer world.)
It wasn't until a couple years ago that I moved away from jobs like system administration and backup-watcher into the world of computer history and documentary filmmaking, where I am now. As one of the Adjunct archivists of the Internet Archive, I seek out new collections of data and help preserve current ones — anything from digitized books and audio to long-forgotten shareware CD-ROMs and obscure information files uploaded years ago. It's a great time, and most importantly, it affords me the flexibility to travel when I'm needed somewhere.
So this was why, when Jordan announced he'd gotten back the Prince of Persia disks he had in his own collection, a lot of friends of mine started linking me to the article and saying "Well?" It was a perfect fit. I had seen Jordan for a few moments after his recent appearance at GDC, so it made sense to have us talk about my coming in to oversee the retrieval of data from the disks. What a nice journey — from hearing the game was being worked on in my youth to helping make sure Jordan's work lasts for future generations!
Pulling data off dead media in the present day is both easier than it ever has been, and as frustrating as ever. Continue Reading
Deathbounce Kickstarter: Fully Funded!
In my PAX keynote yesterday, I mentioned that although Karateka is the game that launched my career, I actually had just as high hopes for the Apple II game I made right before it, as a 17-year-old freshman in college: Deathbounce, which I submitted to Broderbund Software founder Doug Carlston but he declined to publish.
A clamor immediately arose in the audience, offering to support a Kickstarter campaign for an iOS/Android version of Deathbounce.
I tried to discourage this, pointing out that Doug's judgment that Deathbounce was unlikely to set the gaming world on fire was well founded even in 1982. Nevertheless, ever since yesterday, people have been coming up to me at PAX and trying to give me money.
It turns out I actually have a disk image of Deathbounce on my MacBook Air. Continue Reading
Prince of Persia Source Code — Found!
(Warning: Geek Quotient of today's post = 11)
My Dad (yep, the same guy who composed the music for the original Karateka and Prince of Persia) called from New York to tell me he was doing some spring cleaning and had shipped me a carton of old games and other stuff of mine he'd found in the back of a closet.
The carton arrived yesterday. My jaw dropped when I saw what was inside.
No, I don't mean the stacks of Spanish Drosoft versions of POP and Karateka (though those are cool too, especially if you have an Amstrad computer with a cassette player). I mean those three little plastic 3.5″ disk boxes nestled among them… which appear to contain the ORIGINAL APPLE II SOURCE CODE OF PRINCE OF PERSIA that I've been searching for, off and on, for the past ten years, pestering everyone from Doug Carlston to Danny Gorlin and everyone who ever worked at Broderbund, and finally gave up hope of ever finding.
I KNEW it wasn't like me to throw stuff out!
So, for all fifteen of you 6502 assembly-language coders out there who might care… including the hardy soul who ported POP to the Commodore 64 from an Apple II memory dump… I will now begin working with a digital-archeology-minded friend to attempt to figure out how to transfer 3.5″ Apple ProDOS disks onto a MacBook Air and into some kind of 21st-century-readable format. (Yuri Lowenthal, you can guess who I'm talking about.)
This is a crazy busy time (in a good way) with too many projects, so it might take a little while. I'll document our progress via the twitter and facebook feeds, and I promise, as soon as we can extract something usable, I'll post it here.


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