sky blue
Maybe I have ↑infected 2R with my still rampaging cyberpunk craze, as he now raves about ↑Sky Blue [Wonderful Days]. It scored 9 out of 10 ↑at cyberpunkreview, the degree of cyberpunk visuals is rated as very high, and … Continue reading →
Yearly Archives: 2006
the making of machinima
↑LOWOOD, HENRY E. 2006. “High-performance play: The making of machinima.” To appear in: Videogames and Art: Intersections and Interactions, Andy Clarke and Grethe Mitchell (eds.), Intellect Books (UK), 2006. Also to appear in: Journal of Media Practice: Videogames and Art … Continue reading →
machinima: finding its way
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 … Continue reading →
free spirit
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. … Continue reading →
symbols
In gamedesign and -modding it is a cherished practice to integrate references to other popular- and/or cyberculture items. Especially hidden references, so-called easter-eggs, have developed their very own dynamic. But not only gamers “creatively re-fashion the resources of popular culture … Continue reading →
on target
After ↵collecting toilets and ↵more toilets, now it’s the other way round—not toilets in computergames, but computergames in toilets. Designer ↑Marcel Neundörfer has developed urinals with integrated gameplay: “Recessed into a urinal is a pressure-sensitive display screen. When the … Continue reading →
blade runner finally
Another addition to a seemingly never-ending story—is this the last hope? Read ↑Blade Runner Final Cut Coming in 2007! at ↑cyberpunkreview.com. Thanks for the opportunity to post yet another Blade-Runner screenshot ;-)
Continue reading →asa ethics blog
The ↑Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth has brought the ↑ASA Ethics blog online. via entry at savage minds
Continue reading →cmc bibliography
Some good soul has compiled a selected ↑bibliography of computer-mediated communication [.pdf | 22KB].
Continue reading →nonchalance
It can strike you everywhere, in just every situation. For instance you just walk along a busy, or not so busy street without paying particular attention to anything around you. Of course you observe what’s going on in the … Continue reading →