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One illustrator believes magic has been replaced by machinery. How do we get it back?
Illustrator Shilo Shiv Suleman is worried that technology is prevented the youth to dream, so she made an iPad storybook called Khoya to restore what’s been lost: “In the last 10 years, children have been locked inside their rooms, glued to their PCs. … But now with mobile technology, we can actuall
How movies can look to games to deal with transitioning to digital
In upcoming documentary Side By Side, Keanu Reeves sits down with some of the most important directors working now to discuss technology’s effect on the film industry’s evolution. Discussing the death of film, the transition into digital, the 3D craze and the proliferation of digital filmmaking, Ci
PAUSE: When life hands you lemons, make a pool table out of the earth.
Now that’s a hand-crafted table. – Adnan Agha
Why are television’s male protagonists caught in a stalemate?
As we often find in gaming, some of the most successful television titles feature leading male figures. Caught within a certain world and predicament, everything within the narrative seems to change and evolve…except for themselves. The Atlantic published an essay yesterday on this current phenomen
Cheat Sheet 2/23: The Last Guardian gets a little help from their friends, the PS4 has a rumored graphics card, and a Grim Fandango-inspired adventure game
You finish that game or so help me I will turn this car around! Here’s the news: – The Last Guardian team is getting the help of the God of War guys to help finish their game. I’m not sure how to feel about this. – The PS4 is rumored to be using an AMD graphics card. Just like the Nextbox. – Indie d
Transformers 3’s tech makes us wonder about the necessity of blockbuster films and games
While there may be few that would argue Transformers 3 was a great movie, a couple new videos out of visual effect studios ILM and Digital Domain featured at Slashfilm dissect a few action sequences and show the amount of work that was put in to every shot. Watching every individual layer stripped o
PAUSE: Rare view of whales and dolphins at play.
Scientists in Hawaii recently caught dolphins and whales playing together off of the coasts of Maui and Kauai and it’s just really amazing. Watch and be in awe. -Lyndsey Edelman [link]
