I (Jona) have a new solo project called Clip Art!
The Clip Art Megamix is 15 minutes of rapid fire Dynamic Graphics, new unreleased music, and restrained choreography.
Come see it at BLUM Gallery in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 25th as part of the Flux Festival.
🎟️ luma.com/fluxfestival...
bugs bunny would wipe the floor with Q from star trek
a mass of green anemones mostly closed and red sea stars
there's still so much fecundity and enduring beauty in the nonhuman world. let's preserve and treasure it.
Ha ha April Fool. You've actually been having a bizarre dream and it is in fact 1996 right now. We are all going to go watch the new Coen Brothers movie 'Fargo' later. I will call you on your phone that is attached to a wall and can't make you insane later.
do you have any informed prognostications on what the lease market might be like on new EVs in the coming months?
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“Small pictures”
Let’s gooo (to LAMaterial.com and give them our money)
I believe my Dad is there
it’s genuinely bonkers how every billboard in San Francisco is like:
“Zirping your Pingos got you buggin? Yeah, Fnarf’s on that 🤖🦾”
I think it was! We’ll share for sure if so.
Blippo+ Writer Claire L. Evans standing with Game and Creative Director Jona Bechtolt in front of a large red GDC display at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Claire wears a leather jacket and cool shades. Jona wears a brown linen shirt and canvas sneakers. Both are sporting enormous GDC badges. On the floor it says “FESTIVAL OF GAMING” in white letters on a blue starlike shape.
Blippo’s own Claire and Jona (aka @com.y-a-c-h-t.com) are giving a tiny talk today at GDC as part of the Indie Soapbox session, along with some other fabulous devs! Come say hello!
@officialgdc.bsky.social #GDC2026
schedule.gdconf.com/session/indi...
📡 Blippo+ writer @theuniverse.bsky.social, and game/creative director @com.y-a-c-h-t.com will be standing on top of something called the "Indie Soapbox" and giving something called a "microtalk" at GDC. Come say hi!
schedule.gdconf.com/session/indi...
@officialgdc.bsky.social #GDC2026 #IGF2026
3/1/26 6135 Wilshire Blvd 11-6pm
my mom calls ‘em “Air n’B n’Bs”
A flyer for an event called “DEAD MEDIA CHAT ROOM.” It features a very cool vintage illustration of some old computers slowly sinking into a primordial tar pit. The event is from 12-5:30 on March 1st, at Wilshire Online, 6135 Wilshire Boulevard, in Los Angeles.
A second, more detailed flyer for the “Dead Media Chat Room” event at Wilshire Online on March 1st. The full lineup reads: Joanne McNeil, on MySpace Claire L. Evans, on 35mm slides Jackie Forsyte, on shortwave radio Peggy Weil, on obsolete works Azad Namazie, on floppy discs Zack Oldenburg, on dreams Dick Heiser, on LA’s first computer store Michael J. Masucci, on early adoption Sophia Weltman, on melancholia Resonant.love, on repair
An invitation to any LA-based friends On Here: this Sunday is the first Dead Media Chat Room, an informal symposium about archaic technologies and new rituals to revive them, at our office on Wilshire. Co-presented with Wilshire Online and my friends at TAPE Los Angeles:
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It was really such an honor to get this award for my first foray into games writing, which, as I say in my speech, was really the summing-up of an enormous collective worldbuilding effort. And from the nicest people in the biz too! May sincerity always prevail ❤️
I regret to inform you that this is the way
….maybe one Giant of Game Writing and one regular-sized Person of Game Writing
Christa FMV game when!!
A great DVD-extra of a chat between two giants of game writing. You absolutely have to subscribe to this podcast!
Huge stuff happenin’ in Los Angeles at Wilshire & Fairfax
99 Cent Opening
Sunday 2/22
The Wilshire Online Expo 26
Sunday 3/1
📻NEW on the Panic Podcast: Creators @theuniverse.bsky.social and @mrsambarlow.bsky.social talk about the alchemy that combines movie magic with the interactivity of video games, and what (if anything) makes a “good” FMV.
🎧Listen now: podcast.panic.com/episodes/s02e02/ or wherever you catch pods!
That’s so wonderful to hear, thank you!
If anyone’s looking for a fundraiser to support folks who’ve been sheltering in place in Minneapolis, this one comes to me from a local friend who’s a certified real one:
www.gofundme.com/f/critical-r...
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
Flip different.
Blippo+ has arrived on Macintosh™ computers.
Get it on the Mac App Store:
blippo.plus/mac
⌘ Get it on Steam:
blippo.plus/steam
I won a prize 🤓
can someone who knows things about media explain to me why you can’t buy a New Yorker at the airport anymore?
