A story about the first major survey on graffiti and street art, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, brings up some worthwhile questions. How does the picture of an emergent artform change when museums enter in? What happens when ‘having permission’ becomes a factor? Man One also said st
PAUSE: Cristian Zuzunaga’s pixelated furniture. Check out more of his work here.
The latest in our series of pre-game interviews features Jason Rohrer, creator of art games Passage, Gravitation, Sleep Is Death, and Inside a Star-Filled Sky, among many others. He talks about playing with knives, lying to the NSA, and wanting to be a mailman on Mars. I had a lot of nightmares as a
The last typewriter factory, in Mumbai, India, closed this week. So ends the loveliest and loudest sound of button pushing. “We are not getting many orders now,” Milind Dukle, Godrej and Boyce’s general manager, told the paper. “From the early 2000s onwards, computers started dominating. All the man
A detained Al Qaeda official told the U.S. Department of Defense about “remote-controlled firing devices (RCFDS)” hidden inside Sega Genesis cartridges. “Detainee discussed remote-controlled firing devices (RCFDS) which were found during raids in Karachi in September 2002. These RCFDS were built ins
The folks at UK Resistance are tired of everything being so serious all the time so they’ve started a campaign to bring back the blue sky in games, just like old times: – Change everything that’s grey into blue. – From now on, everyone wears red shoes. – Make everything happen at midday or sunset. –
Clip from animator Gabe Swarr’s “Life in the Analog Age” series.
Over at Geek Dad UK, a father mixes things up with his daughter and let’s her make up some of the rules. The results are exciting/inspiring: Although inspired by her introduction to chess the day before, her game was fresh and creative — it was different in ways that an adult steeped in chess would