What would Heidegger say?
In this situation of throwing-ness how aware is this person of the hammer (or the nail)? http://justvidclips.com/view/51/hammer-guy-very-cool-juggling-video-/
the death of the viewer
Stephen Prince argues that “To date, theory has tended to minimize the importance of perceptual correspondences, but the advent of digital imaging demonstrates how important they are and have been all along.” Things like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park or the impossibly realistic landscape in True Lies each highlight problems with traditional film theory, exposing…
Q&A: Pierce @ Bardzell
Jimmy has sent me a deluge of questions, and I’ll do my best to answer them here. Some answers I am more confident about than others. AMM >What are the defining characteristics of AMM? What is it NOT? I think the defining characteristic that I am settling on is creativity practiced by populations, rather than…
lecture liveblog 9-27-07 (poorly written)
OK so my disclaimer here is that I was just not in the liveblog zone today. It takes a certain amount of cognitive function to both absorb and get what’s happening on the computer at the same time, and discussion is especially hard for me. Jeff, Marty, Mike or whoever has editing powers, please do…
simlish – lily allen video
Just as a quick post: I was looking up machinima and animutation on the ‘tubes’ and i came across this influx web site that had an interesting little post about Lily Allen’s video produced in the Sims environment… nothing too new -but- she actually reworked her song into the “Simlish” language used in the Sims…
Can’t resist posting this
OK it’s awfully geeky, but here are a couple examples of new media that I love, but they are interesting in a couple ways. They are both “Music Videos” a form of entertainment that is just a little younger than I am, but like all new media there is a lot of twists. The music…
Art of Montage: Office Space Edition
As we all know, the art of movie trailers (mongtage) is very well understood. I’m a big fan of “recut” trailers which attempt to create entirely new movies out of existing films. For example, check out the original Office Space trailer. Now, check out the trailer for the “horror thriller” version. Finally, check out the…
Interaction Culture 