All of the ‘classic’ anthropological fieldworkers collected the artefacts of the cultures they did research on. For a long time ‘material culture’ was a big issue in anthropology, but became less and less important through time. It indeed became some … Continue reading →
If you embrace over-the-top renditions of martial arts as to be seen in the famous Xiaoxiao-movies (see ↵style and ↵megaman and xiaoxiao) then ↑Mortal Kombat vs. Street Fighter 2 [.swf | 5.3MB] definitely is something for you. Hilarious and, … Continue reading →
↑Henry Jenkins III, one of the directors of ↑MIT‘s ↑comparative media studies, has written an article called ↑Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked. The eight myths [in this context to be understood as ‘false beliefs’] he deals with … Continue reading →
↑ClustrMaps provides the HTML that gives a thumbnail map—when it loads, it increments a counter and shows the locations of all the visitors to your page, cumulatively (even for huge numbers). Clicking on it zooms in to a big … Continue reading →
Lorenz Khazaleh, the unstoppable force behind ↑anthropologi.info, has ↑interviewed Benedict Anderson, creator of the concept imagined communities—said concept time and again pops up in the vicinity of trying to understand online communities, hence I file this entry under cyberanthropology. via … Continue reading →
“Now in 2005, we have blogs and wikis, and the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn’t crazy to think people needed a creative space.” —Sir Timothy Berners-Lee Sir Timothy “Tim” John Berners-Lee, the legend who … Continue reading →
Besides the ↵White Room there now is yet another fine instance of the appropriation of computergames by fine art, Alison Mealey’s ↑Unrealart: All artworks have been created using data from the game “Unreal Tournament”. Each image represents about … Continue reading →
↑Static, the ↑London Consortium‘s online journal, ↑aims at initiating “interdisciplinary intellectual debate about paradoxes of contemporary culture, Static presents contributions from an international team of academics, artists and cultural practitioners.” The ↑first issue‘s core topic was play and violence—the … Continue reading →
Well, this again is not an artefact that stems from ‘my community’, but just for ye olde times’ sake, the days when we pulled through the ↵Lightsaber mod [download link there ;-], I simply can not resist to post … Continue reading →
↑According to the ↑MP2-section of L4Y the highly acclaimed and desperately awaited MP2-TC ↑Equilibrium: Hall Of Mirrors has gone gold and awaits its release: “Hall of Mirrors is a Total conversion of Max Payne 2 that allows you to … Continue reading →