Coincidence again—just last Monday, while composing ↵demo and ↵snaking and strafe-jumping, I found ↑“Diary of a Camper”, not this blog’s subtitle, but allegedly the very first instance of ↵machinima. Today I found ↑Machinima: Finding Its Way, representing “not only a somewhat loose retrospective of Machinima’s history, but also the blurry lines between fandom, subversive fetish and grotesque commercialism”: Machinima is a hybrid medium, a mix and remix of filmmaking and game culture. Its life started in 1996 as an afterthought—a nearly overlooked existence within the gaming community, then known as “Quake Movies.” In the last ten years however, Machinima … Continue reading
Daily Archives: Sunday, 4th June 2006
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Still I am deep down into the consumption of cyberpunk—literature and movies. Yesterday I rewatched Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil” and this afternoon “Immortal” by Enki Bilal. At 8 P.M. I watched the news and afterwards zapped through the channels a bit. Suddenly “Immortal” was on the screen again. Confusion at my side, then I realized that it indeed was on TV. D’oh—just yesteday I have bought the DVD. Anyway. And I have gone back to the habit of reading several books in parallel fashion. After having watched “Minority Report” some days ago I am now reading Philip K. Dick’s short story … Continue reading