The influence of literary fiction and movies is not to neglect when trying to understand cyberculture, the cultural appropriation of ICTs, or parts of that. Currently ↑The Guardian‘s ↑technology blog has a ↑top twenty list of geek novels, constrcuted by … Continue reading →
↵Machinima is not only about using resources available in the game which’s engine is used to ‘shoot’ and produce a movie. Like for game-mod[ification]s, for machinima all resources available are put to use. That means all kinds of visual … Continue reading →
As a result of my fighting hard against the virulent ↵wandering astray online—the getting lost in the cyber trenches—I finally started to fill up the ↵machinima-section of my collection of artefacts created by members of ‘my cyberian tribe’, the ↵MP-modding … Continue reading →
Well, this again is not an artefact that stems from ‘my community’, but just for ye olde times’ sake, the days when we pulled through the ↵Lightsaber mod [download link there ;-], I simply can not resist to post … Continue reading →
“Now in 2005, we have blogs and wikis, and the fact that they are so popular makes me feel I wasn’t crazy to think people needed a creative space.” —Sir Timothy Berners-Lee Sir Timothy “Tim” John Berners-Lee, the legend who … Continue reading →
I already mused about ↵Wikipedia as emic knowledge—now I have to contribute a tidbit myself: In ↑Pure Pwnage‘s ↑Episode 8 “Lanageddon” I just discovered an ↑easter egg which is not yet listed in the ↑easter-egg section of ↑Wikipedia’s entry Pure … Continue reading →
After the somewhat cruel experience concerning my performance in ↵Q3A during ↵the last LAN-party I attended, I now have started to take measures—the ↑Fighternight 8 is approaching—again ↵at Wolfenstein! As I do not get to grips with DigitalHawk’s config … Continue reading →
The TAZ carries an ↑article on anthropologist Anna Schöne, who does Ph.D.-level fieldwork on Berlin’s techno[music]-scene. This statement of hers caught my eye: “Das Spezifische an der Subkultur ist, dass sie das, was unsere Kultur ausmacht, bewusst macht, ausdrückt und … Continue reading →
This piece of ↵machinima features insane surreal humour inspired by Monty Python, Finding Nemo, Madagascar … creatively and congenially staged in ↑BF2: Snoken Productions’ (↑Official Forums) ↑Mine [12:05min | .wmv | 68MB—many other sizes and formats scattered all around … Continue reading →
Within every human individual there is a personal eclectic conglomeration of ambiences and narrative content built from a lifetime of experience, assimilating information, and digesting popular culture. When this conglomerations are shared by a group of people, we deal … Continue reading →