GRAETZ, J. MARTIN. 1981. ↑The origin of Spacewar. ↑Creative Computing 7(8): 56-67, ↑reprinted 1983 in ↑Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games ↑1(1): 78-??. The picture at the top is a snippet of an illustration that accompanied the 1983 … Continue reading →
Those of you who are insane—or bored—enough to indeed follow the completely unorganised entries in this blog in the strict sense of the term, representing a fraction of what I dare call fieldwork, surely have noticed my fascination with ↵Q3A-trickjumping … Continue reading →
… it seems that I have succeeded in cramping the necessary feedback-loops into my inner cybernetic system responsible for controlling my motor functions. Now I can perform a circle jump and come out of it with 500+ units per … Continue reading →
from biology to culture ↑STROSS, BRIAN. 1999. The hybrid metaphor: From biology to culture. The Journal of American Folklore 112(445): 254-267. abstract: The article introduces and briefly discusses a few conceptual considerations common to biological and cultural hybridity and examines … Continue reading →
Being in the midst of ↵“Accelerando” by Charles Stross the above amazing picture immediately strung a chord when I first saw it. The picture shows “the solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis (50 … Continue reading →
The noble art of ↵trickjumping is not necessarily a pure means to its own end, but there are ways of substantial application. Of course most of the techniques are downright counterproductive when playing deathmatch, as they would rapidly lead … Continue reading →
The paper I presented at the workshop ↑Understanding media practices at the ↑9th EASA Biennial Conference which took place from September 18th through September 21st 2006 in Bristol, UK, now is online at my own server: ↑“The online nomads … Continue reading →
… then we take Berlin Just noticed that when I walked the streets of Munich this morning. A quick search turned up the picture below showing yet another one ↑sascha spotted in Berlin. Is there an archive of these … Continue reading →
the beginning of … ↑“Genesis: The beginning of …” (2005) [18:11min | .avi | 349MB] ↑by Quan-Time is a hilarious ↑Q3A-trick-stunt movie which teaches you about ↑DeFRaG and a wealth of trickjumping techniques from the basics up. The movie … Continue reading →
The notion of ‘Barlowian cyberspace’ is no news, I know, but nevertheless worthwhile to clarify. ↑Jakub Macek summed it up nicely: The term cyberspace was coined by the American writer ↑William Gibson at the beginning of the 1980s [mind … Continue reading →