hooked
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 →
Tag Archives: design
dart plane
Remember Gaff (Edward James Olmos) continuously leaving behind tiny origami artefacts, thereby more or less cryptically commenting situations in “↑Blade Runner“? The ↑famous unicorn in particular? Well, during the Christmas days I unearthed a book I 15 years ago ordered … Continue reading →
game noir
Michael Mosel, a student at Marburg University, CC-licenced his paper “↑Film noir Computerspiele—marketing gag oder reales ‘noir gaming’?“ [“Film noir computer games—marketing ruse or real ‘noir gaming’?” | .pdf | 907KB] and ↑published it online, as his brother ↑notified … Continue reading →
zeiss ikon eyes
A discussion-thread at ↑williamgibsonboard, broaching the issue of the ↑actual looks of synthetical eyes within ↑Gibson‘s ↑sprawl trilogy inspired the man himself to write a blog-entry on ↑Molly’s mirrorshades and Zeiss-Ikon eyes. The entry is particularly interesting in respect to … Continue reading →
amphoræ
Just a little story on personal appropriation of mass-produced commodities. The stores around here carry a vast diversity of nearly identical products for everyday use in mass-consumption style, like e.g. shower gel and sun milk. Sometimes the contents are … Continue reading →
tron 2.0
For some early cyberculture items the franchise- and adaptation-roundabout seems to spin forever. The 1982 silverscreen-movie ↑Tron was followed by Bally Midway’s ↑identically named arcade game in the same year. 1983 saw the computergame ↑Discs of Tron, and, more … Continue reading →
how games ought to be … ?
Those are all from last year, but very worthwhile: LONG, DAVID. 2005. ↑LongShot #86: Graphics Don’t Matter. ↑GamerDad. PHELPS, ANDREW. 2005. ↑Graphics Don’t Matter (and other assertions). ↑Got Game?. WONG, DAVID AND HAIMOIMOI. 2005.↑A gamers manifesto. ↑pointless waste of time.
Continue reading →more toilets
The ↵collecting-gamespace-toilets bug seems to spread. ↑Gamersgame ↑reports that fresh99 now carries an ↑according collection, too. Of course the mod-scene in general, and my tribe in particular can not stand back. Here’s an exclusive screen shot of a ↑Rogue-Ops toilet … Continue reading →
lightsaber outtakes
With the recent hype around ↑Revenge of the Sith hitting the silverscreen I was reminded of the heap of work we had done for the Max Payne 1 total conversion (TC) Lightsaber 4 (LS4), but which never was included into … Continue reading →
ölrechner
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 →