Month: May 2011

  • Ever wondered just how much coffee you drank last year, or which movies you saw, and when? New Web and mobile apps make it possible to track, and visualize, this personal information graphically, and the trend could be set to expand dramatically. This is because Facebook recently acquired one of the leading personal-data-tracking mobile apps…

  • amorningcupofjo: I don’t think this needs a caption. 🙂

  • amorningcupofjo: I don’t think this needs a caption. 🙂

  • Did that influence your approach to games? Montessori education is about learning through play and experience and your games seem to echo that idea. WW: Yes, I think it did, in a number of ways. It became more overt, more conscious to me later in life, as I got interested in Maria Montessori and her…

  • Salman Rushdie and David Cronenberg on videogames

    David Cronenberg: Do you think there could ever be a computer game that could truly be art? Salman Rushdie: No. There’s a beautiful game called Myst. Have you seen that? I haven’t seen that. They say this is democratic art, that is to say, the reader is equal to the creator. But this is really…

  • Salman Rushdie and David Cronenberg on videogames

    David Cronenberg: Do you think there could ever be a computer game that could truly be art? Salman Rushdie: No. There’s a beautiful game called Myst. Have you seen that? I haven’t seen that. They say this is democratic art, that is to say, the reader is equal to the creator. But this is really…

  • dinosaurparty: A Brief History of Video Game Art | Motherboard This is an interesting take on the history of video game art, although I don’t think it does it enough justice.

  • dinosaurparty: A Brief History of Video Game Art | Motherboard This is an interesting take on the history of video game art, although I don’t think it does it enough justice.

  • Allow me, for a moment, to imagine some weird possibilities. What if Rohrer– or another games artist like him– worked at a university, like my published professors? In an alternate universe, could some museum or public institution have funded a Rohrer project? If a games artist got a grant from a government to make public…

  • Allow me, for a moment, to imagine some weird possibilities. What if Rohrer– or another games artist like him– worked at a university, like my published professors? In an alternate universe, could some museum or public institution have funded a Rohrer project? If a games artist got a grant from a government to make public…