↑Computer Choppers of West Linn, Oregon, builds custom computers, laptops, and electronics on request. Additionally they manufacture “limited-run specialty items,” of which the above pictured, 24karat goldplated MacBook Pro with diamonds is an example. Besides the fictional Auric Goldfinger, … Continue reading →
There really is no use in having manuscripts merrily rotting away in drawers and on HDDs. So here are some pieces of mine, on cyberanthropology, appropriation, and game modding: KNORR, ALEXANDER. 2008. ↓maxmod—eine Ethnographie der cyberculture: Exposé des Habilitationsprojektes [128KB … Continue reading →
A matching sneaker, I even bought a matching sneaker—it’s that serious. But allow me to start at the beginning. The things I am dealing with more or less dictate that I am working on a PC and not on … Continue reading →
JAHN-SUDMANN, ANDREAS AND RALF STOCKMANN (eds.). 2008. “↑Computer games as a sociocultural phenomenon: Games without frontiers—war without tears“. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Continue reading →the nine deaths of alex black Finally the (SLurl:) ↑City of Abaddon—my home—is put to use for what it truly is predestined: ↑machinima making. With permission from ↑Detect Surface writeress ↑Noelani Mahana films “The nine deaths of Alex Black” … Continue reading →
This time by “Max” I do not refer to “↑Max Payne“, but to anthropologist ↑Maximilian Forte, who offers the course ↑Cyberspace Ethnography at Concordia University, Montreal. Besides this, on all account read his article ↑Another Revolution Missed? Anthropology of Cyberspace … Continue reading →
When Marcello Gandini showed his concept drawings for the projected successor to the Lamborghini “Miura,” the LP500 prototype, to Nucchio Bertone, the latter exclaimed “Countach!”—the Piemontese equivalent to “fuck me sideways!” Ferruccio Lamborghini, who was present, decided that the … Continue reading →
Some day back in the 1980s I got my hands on some SciFi-movie aficionado book, which, among many other things, contained concept paintings for “↑Blade Runner“ (1982) by ↑Syd Mead, who is labelled as “visual futurist” in the movie’s … Continue reading →
The computer game “↑Max Payne“ (MP, 2001) was ↑banned in Germany, due to “socioethical disorienting effects,” it supposedly causes. In July of 2002 “↑America’s Army“ (AA) was released—since then I am wondering why nobody over here has the idea … Continue reading →