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8bitfuture: The Louvre to hand out 3DS systems as tour guides. The Louvre museum in Paris – home to the Mona Lisa – is to replace it’s audio tour guides with Nintendo 3DS units. The current audio guides are used by only 4 per cent of the museum’s 8.5 million annual visitors. With the 3DS,…
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8bitfuture: The Louvre to hand out 3DS systems as tour guides. The Louvre museum in Paris – home to the Mona Lisa – is to replace it’s audio tour guides with Nintendo 3DS units. The current audio guides are used by only 4 per cent of the museum’s 8.5 million annual visitors. With the 3DS,…
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brycedotvc: Much has been said, written and posted about SOPA over the last month or so. But what I found refreshing and enlightening about this talk from Cory Doctorow was the lengths to which he went to frame SOPA in it’s real historical context. The title of this talk says it all “The Coming War…
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dayanatuna: Did you know that you can freeze bubbles? These temperatures are perfect for using that left over bubble mix from the summer. Go outside on any day when it’s below 32 degrees F and try this: blow a bubble and then catch it on the bubble wand. Wait a few moments while it freezes-…
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Critical Game StudiesOpening day Mancala tournament I have rolled out an Alpha Version 0.9 of a “critical game studies” course. We are going to collaboratively co-create the course. I am acting as guide and co-learner. On day one we had a conversation about creating A canon (not The). I, also, shared ideas about “subject positions”…
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notgames: [Muscular dystrophy patient Mary] doesn’t care if it’s “cheating” to call upon some kind of assist mode that would allow her to make the jumps a little more easily. For Mary, she just wants to play and enjoy the game -she has no desire to enter some videogame competition where that would make a…
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KAYLA GUTHRIE: How did you start writing about art? CHRIS KRAUS: […] I didn’t really think very much about it, but obviously the way to describe something is just to say what it is and then say what it means to you. And that’s basically the recipe for art writing: what is it, and what…
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Antielitism Left and Right
lareviewofbooks: Image © Paul Bausch onfocus.com One of the most intriguing and valuable books I’ve read in 2011 was Catherine Liu’s American Idyll: Academic Antielitism as Cultural Critique (University of Iowa Press). We have billionaire antielitists, tenured antielitists, rightwing nutjob antielitists, leftwing wacko antielitists, famous artist antielitists, multi-platinum antielitists, and Congressional antielitists, and Liu wants…
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The man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. Elbert Hubbard (via sevensheaven)