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I maintain this isn’t a “real” game. I think somebody, somewhere was taking the piss until publisher Majesco actually took the bait, is actually releasing it, and now it’s all gotten a little awkward. Babysitting Mama is a babysitting game for the Wii, where you cram a Wii Remote inside a baby and…do babysitting stuff.…
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Dimension 7: Guilermo Del Toro: “Games are art”
Dimension 7: Guilermo Del Toro: “Games are art” callmewill: Guillermo del Toro is an awesome director. His credits include Hell Boy, The Orphanage, Pan’s Labyrinth, and soon, a major video game with THQ. According to del Toro, games are Art. “Videogames are the comic books of our time. It’s a medium that gains no respect…
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Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative (The Frontal Cortex)
Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative (The Frontal Cortex) 1000reasonsnottostartmakingart: psychotherapy: For thousands of years, people have speculated that there’s some correlation between sadness and creativity, so that people who are a little bit miserable (think Van Gogh, or Dylan in 1965, or Virginia Woolf) are also the most innovative. Aristotle was there first, stating…
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bashford: Augmented City (3D) Augmented reality is taken to the next, all-immersive level in Keiichi Matsuda’s film, recently presented at London’s 3D Film Festival at The Barbican. The architecture graduate and filmmaker has imagined a future world overlaid with digital information, whose built environment can be transformed at the touch of a few buttons. ‘The…
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wgfluxus: Fluxus Multiples: The primary permanent objects that Fluxus created. 1965: 200 works hypothetically for sale. Simple: Generally a plastic box with a printed card of a score or instructions. Recycled stuff. Small: generally 3 x 12 x 9 cm; Luxury Edition: 5 x 20 x 20 cm Cheap: 1964: $1 – $40 Luxus Editions: $150 1970s:…
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The taste of Kit Kat candy bars, Coca-Cola beverages and Jelly Belly candies are known to stimulate cravings and subsequently influence consumers’ spending habits, but now researchers suggest simply hearing the sound of those brands and others with repetitively structured names can induce similar outcomes. Across several product categories, audible exposure to repetitive-sounding brand names…