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Synthpop music video uses Kinect to dramatic effect.
Synthpop band New Look shot the new music video to their very ’80s single Nap on the Bow using a Kinect motion-capture camera. The results are startlingly creepy and very cool. It looks better in motion, and the song is kind of catchy. I swear! [YouTube] -Jason Johnson
Videogames and Hollywood films threaten Westernization of the East, warns Chinese leader.
It’s tough competing with the supremely cool United States, what with our Hollywood films and sleek videogames. Paramount Chinese leader Hu Jintao has warned his communist party that the proliferation and popularization of American culture, not the American military, was the greatest threat to the
PAUSE: This is your mom on Skyrim.
Simple: get your mom to play Skyrim and record the things she says. Bethesda’s community manager Nick Breckon did just that and the results are amazing. – Lyndsey Edelman [link] [image]
FundVille: New York Times columnist makes a Facebook game for change
Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times is working on a new Facebook game that does some good for once. Players will be able to buy virtual goods in the game with real currency that will then go to NGOs and aid organizations around the world. Burak said that players will also be able to contribute to
Writer’s Guild reveals nominees for 2011’s best writing in videogames.
The Writer’s Guild of America is a somewhat elusive entity to those unfamiliar with the entertainment industry, although you may recall the 2007-2008 WGA-lead writers’ strike that left us watching terrible movies and TV for two or so years after. (Remember Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen?) But f
PAUSE: Arcade icon Pac-Man shows up in NYC street art.
This arcade-inspired urban art is a project of Woodward Gallery in Manhattan, who also deals in limited edition prints of New York pop artists such as Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol. [Rhisome] -Jason Johnson
Interactive Kinect puppets create an interactive playground for children.
Since the relatively lukewarm introduction of Microsoft’s Kinect into the gaming community, the motion camera’s most interesting projects have arguably been user-made hacks that have nothing to do with Xbox games at all. And of those hacks, this is arguably one of the coolest. Design I/O have desig
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