Jamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
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Amherst professor Ilan Stavans laments the state of modern tourism, fearing that we’re missing the point. Modern tourism does not promise transformation but rather the possibility of leaving home and coming back without any significant change or challenge. Tourists may enjoy the visit only because i
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Josh Hutchinson’s wonderful piece at the Walrus outlines the limits of brain science and how tweaking our internal motivation systems can push our bodies to amazing things. It also featured this little nugget on how racing an avatar of a past successful performance can spur an even more successful n
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I loved The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao from Pulitzer-winning novelist Junot Díaz and his review of Grand Theft Auto IV a couple years back is equally magical. Good to know his new short story collection (below) wears its loyalties on the cover.
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Close enough. “A” for unintentional effort. Spotted on Houston and Essex.
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I don’t really wear hats. Nor do I like “gamer gear.” But this Zelda-themed cap will be my exception for today.
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Ryan Tate at Wired dives into the seedy world of, um, apps. Getting to the top requires a bit of moral ambiguity and he outlines the many ways that app creators are artificially manufacturing buzz. Games, of course, are front and center. Buying users. Let’s say you’re playing a game on your Android
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Anonymous artists by the name of “Bored” are taking the streets of Chicago one dice roll at a time. They’ve painted various sidewalk blocks that lovely hue known as Monopoly and even created houses and hotels in the process. Perhaps its tribute to the game’s inventor, Elizabeth Magie, who created Th
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Video Google Australia teamed up with LEGO to build a giant board for you to populate with whales, houses, and, undoubtably, inappropriate body parts. (Thankfully, there’s an approvals process, you griefers you.) Check you the site here.
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VIdeo French animator and artist Karim Rejeb is all about going to the beach and surfing. The short is a follow-up to Rejeb’s first film LINO and is all set to music by SMILE. [via Laughing Squid]
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Too much Freaks and Geeks on the mind this AM. A new program helps kids interact via avatars: The simulation, designed for children ages 8 to 12, allows clinicians to play the roles of the avatars while the children sit at a computer in a different room and respond to situations they encounter routi
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This is madness. A Reddit user has been playing Civilization II for more than a decade and the results are awe-inspiring/depressing: A couple of in-game millenia later, the landscape is mostly “inundated swamp land,” as the polar ice caps have managed to melt 20 times. Engineers are constantly buil
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It’s in the programming section. Ha.