It seems that I am attracted to ↵things “Razer”, however spelled, just ↑like John Romero is … ;-) As some may remember, I am the owner of “that girlish piece of hardware” [tnx 2R] called the Motorola Razr—which at some … Continue reading →
bikers, trickjumpers, and an aspective vision of cyberculture At the city of Munich’s southern fringe, bordering to the rich people’s pseudo-gated-community Grünwald, there is a quite remarkable location to be found right at the river Isar’s shore. In between … Continue reading →
Hell, am I backward! And—concerning everything connected to ICTs—Scandinavia has its nose way up front, as usual. ↑2R just hinted me via e-mail—tnx a lot, man—to a paper by Olli Sotamaa: ↑SOTAMAA, OLLI. 2003. ↑Computer game modding, intermediality and participatory … Continue reading →
↑Tony Salvador and ↑John Sherry, ↑triple-A members as well as researchers at Intel, have just recently published an article called ↑Taking the Internet to the people (↵Salvador & Sherry 2005), telling us about some of their findings after four years … Continue reading →
↑Mizuko Ito [↵keitai-scholar and sister of blogosphere-legend ↑Joi Ito] introduces us to ↑Otaku Media Literacy—if one would replace ‘anime otaku’ by ‘gamemodders’ and add one or two adjustments, her text still would be ‘the truth’. Here’s an excerpt: ↑[…] Overseas … Continue reading →
—is anybody home | Calling elvis—I’m here all alone | Did he leave the building | Or can he come to the phone | Calling elvis—I’m here all alone [Mark Knopfler—originally released on ‘On Every Street’] The Unreal 2003 … Continue reading →
Word has it that Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) once coined the phrase ‘liquid television’. MTV grabbed the vocable and named a TV-show broadcasting animated cartoons likewise. The show even was to be seen in India via StarTV, and featured goodies like … Continue reading →
Two new publications from the extreme ends of the spectrum, but both touching my topic. Now guess which one of the two is closer to my mind and heart. KELTY, CHRISTOPHER M. 2005. Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics. Cultural … Continue reading →
By squishing a ↑computer into a vintage-model of Han Solo’s Millenium Falcon casemodder ↑Russ Caslis made the Star-Wars-nerd’s heart jump high and right out of the galaxy. ↑Alienware just seems to have achieved the opposite, ↑according to boingboing: “Alienware has … Continue reading →