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to watch: Pachamama
Pachamama looks utterly beautiful and unlike anything aimed at children today. And while it’s not necessarily evident from the trailer, Antin says he hopes to promote an ecological message with the film. Overall, the movie seems to take a complex history – Andean villagers struggling under the dominion of the Incas, who themselves are on the verge…
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Colombian bot pilots
The Kiwibots do not figure out their own routes. Instead, people in Colombia, the home country of Chavez and his two co-founders, plot “waypoints” for the bots to follow, sending them instructions every five to 10 seconds on where to go. As with other offshoring arrangements, the labor savings are huge. The Colombia workers, who…
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Dizzy Spell
In May of 2018 we held a pop-up arcade called Dizzy Spell. Today we will launch the website http://dizzyspell.xyz which will publicly formalize this collaboration with Adán de la Garza and Justin Ankenbauer. We began this collaborative grouping roughly one year ago. Saniego Sanchez put me in touch with Adán via an email message early…
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Dizzy Spell
In May of 2018 we held a pop-up arcade called Dizzy Spell. Today we will launch the website http://dizzyspell.xyz which will publicly formalize this collaboration with Adán de la Garza and Justin Ankenbauer. We began this collaborative grouping roughly one year ago. Saniego Sanchez put me in touch with Adán via an email message early…
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semillero / incubator
I recently received news that an incubator I worked on while on sabbatical in Colombia has gotten institutional support from the Universidad Sur Colombiana. this is great news. This means that the “let’s make a game” game can startup in the town where I was born. the first cohort is made up of first-year students…
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wolverines
from 2004-ish to 2012-ish I was a co- or assistant-coach for my younger son’s soccer team. we chose to pursue a recreational league over a competitive one. we couldn’t imagine the scale of the investment needed for the latter. the luck of the draw placed us with the Wolverines in the Englewood Soccer Association. I’ll…