Ca c’est magnifique. In respect to stunts’n’such this, just like ↵mine and ↵more, definitely beats the silverscreen. Remember, once there was a time when the quality of action flicks was measured by the sheer number of cars partaking in … Continue reading →
A follow-up to ↵trail of sources, dealing with Henry Lowood’s ↑Wikipedia, sources, machinima: “But these questions do raise issues about research on “consumer-created content.” It seems we are dependent on consumer-created sources, as well.” In principle I wholeheartedly agree, but … Continue reading →
Yesterday, in meatspace, ↑KerLeone told me about it, now it is official—he has launched a new community weblog called ↑Gutterflower [in German]. Much talk about transgressive gaming, alternate reality games, etc. is flying through academia, and I guess the … Continue reading →
Faithful readers know that I am tremendously fond of Neal Stephenson’s “Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer” (1995) [see ↵hard rock phylum, ↵dojo, and ↵diamond culture]—now George Clooney makes it into a ↑six-our television mini-series for the … Continue reading →
This, Ladies and Gentlemen, definitely is a piece of art! “↑Planet of the Arabs“ [08:58min | .mov | 30MB | also ↑at YouTube and ↑at Google Video] by artist ↑Jacqueline Salloum is a fulminant remix of scenes from Hollywood … Continue reading →
Definitely I won’t repeat all the hype—if you are out for that, watch Steve Job’s Macworld keynote and the animations at the ↑iPhone homepage. What indeed strikes me is the usual Apple understatement, clear-cut physical design, and of course … Continue reading →
The subpage ↑embodiment of the website ↑the green fuse is quite interesting and resourceful. Also there: ↑Adrian Harris‘ “↑Notions of embodied knowledge.” Additionally see, from the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS: ↑The transmission of knowledge.
Continue reading →F00 foo from ↑Acidmods ↑said: “Heres a little side project I’ve been working on. Playing doom.wad’s on my iPod with a NES controller,” and pointed us to the according ↑video at YouTube. This earned him a ↑story at hack a … Continue reading →
At the blog ↑How They Got Game 2 ↑Henry E. Lowood reflects about the issues I pondered in ↵defrag wikipedia. Here’s an excerpt from his ↑Wikipedia, sources, machinima, which also goes well with ↵wikipedia on cyberanthropology and ↵embeddedness of subcybercultures: … Continue reading →
Three years ago ↑Anja Rau wrote: “Look at your map of European Game Studies. Is there a white space south of Denmark? There needn’t be. Over the past two years, game studies initiatives have sprung up in Germany, too, and … Continue reading →