artform
Gaming is the most vital artform of the age, a field that has burgeoned from virtually nothing to one of the world’s most popular forms in no time flat, a field that has seen and continues to see an enormous … Continue reading →
zephyrin_xirdal
dekotora
This is a late follow-up to 2005’s ↵zelda vans: ↑Thrilling Wonder features a phantastic ↑series of dekotora truck pictures. See also, if you like, ↑Dekotora at the Wikipedia, and compare to ↵bedford’s appropriation and ↵bedford’s metamorphosis. And for those ↑deep … Continue reading →
web 2.1
the infancy of Internet television
or, pride and prejudice Director ↑Geoff Lapaire, playing the character ‘↑Kyle‘ in the “↑Pure Pwnage“ Internet television series, finally revealing his face to the audience at the end of ↑Episode 12 “Game Over” [46:08min | .avi | 342.5MB], closing the … Continue reading →
kyle pwned
More than a year ago I ↵added a tidbit to the entry ↑Pure Pwnage at Wikipedia. My addition, which—in the wake of Wikipedia’s ↑Project Internet Culture—meanwhile was moved to the ↑easter eggs section of the now existing entry ↑List of … Continue reading →
ten years of doom
Ten years ago on December 10th, 1993, ↑id Software released the ↑Doom shareware, forever changing the world of PC games. Doom pretty much defined the very young ↑first person shooter genre, and set the bar for future games to come. … Continue reading →
teh original affluent society
Ladies and Gentlemen, hold your breath, just some hours ago we founded our very own gaming clan: “Teh Original Affluent Society” (TOAS—and, yes, it’s “Teh” ;-) The best thing is the members roster. At the moment there are four of … Continue reading →
speed thrills
It seems like ↑just.be in meatspace somehow ran into Thomas ‘↑Panter‘ Pilger, who in 1997 “spread throughout the ↑COMPET-N tables like a plague. By August, he was the first to do the third ↑DOOM 2 episode (Map 21-30) on Nightmare … Continue reading →
spook country
It seems that I was right, ↵when I suspected that ↑William Gibson succesfully had fused blogging with novel writing, and that in his blog we were reading bits and pieces of an upcoming novel of his. At the end … Continue reading →
beatboxing flute
As ↑anthronaut commented in his e-mail—by which he pointed me to the whole thing—this indeed is a multi-layered interweavement of computer games, popular music, and new media … At the ↑FanTent, which stands for “fanmade content”, there is a collection … Continue reading →