May 2012
22 posts
Future of Books & Publishing →
book cultures!
javierarce:
Articles on the future of books, reading and publishing.
Gravity in the Margins (Mmm… Marginalia #55) →
rabidchildstaysathome:
Consider the following image, taken from the lower margin of Bodleian Library MS 264 fol. 17v:
Hopefully, you don’t need me to point out that the dashing mustachioed figure in red between the hound and his fleeing prey isn’t original to the manuscript. But imagine for a moment that Mario (here pictured circa 1990) hopped down a warp pipe and emerged on the page of a...
Arse Elektronika 2012 / Call for Submissions:... →
What can we learn about Roman gaming culture from Ovid’s Ars Amatoria? What determines the many definitions of “cheating” in each of those contexts? How do the procedural rhetorics of modern game design encourage objectification of women? How might contemplative gaming teach us to free ourselves from the tyranny of the climax? etc
Born in 1987: Submit your own GIF! →
joyofgif:
As part of the exhibition: Born in 1987: The Animated GIF we are inviting the public to respond to their show by creating and submitting their own GIFs.
We will be featuring the public submissions on this website, plus an edited selection will be shown on The Wall (a 2.7 x 3m screen) in…
6 Japanese Video Games That Will Make Your Head... →
Takeshi’s Challenge takes place in a city where everyone hates you, but that’s OK, because you hate them, too: The game gives you the ability to repeatedly punch everyone you come across into a bloody pulp, from defenseless women and old men to violent cops and yakuza. You even have the option to punch the password menu, which results in a “game over” screen before you even...
The Real Reason There Will Never Be Offline Single... →
Blizzard has essentially legalized item farming and selling for real world money, but now it’s an official system that goes through them instead of eBay. Blizzard takes a cut of each transaction, and by doing nothing at all, they have a steady source of revenue from those buying virtual items on the (no longer black) market.
The Secret History of the Intrigue Cards →
Intrigue has existed in many forms over the years. It came into being as 12 cards in 2006, immediately became 15 cards, got expanded to 20 cards not too long afterwards, stayed at 20 for a long time, although cards paraded through it, got tried at 16 briefly, went back to 20, then made the leap to 25. Originally the set had three sub-themes; one of them (one-shots) gradually left, and another...
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[1203.1895] Classic Nintendo Games are (NP-) Hard →
We prove NP-hardness results for five of Nintendo’s largest video game franchises: Mario, Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, Metroid, and Pokemon. Our results apply to Super Mario Bros. 1, 3, Lost Levels, and Super Mario World; Donkey Kong Country 1-3; all Legend of Zelda games except Zelda II: The Adventure of Link; all Metroid games; and all Pokemon role-playing games. For Mario and Donkey...
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April 2012
19 posts
the origin of the tag - www →
It was a lot like Las Vegas, except it was on my screen, with no way of turning it off.
ArtStars*: Curator Porn: Documenta (13) and the... →
nadjasayej:
For such a large, high-profile art event such as DOCUMENTA (13), it comes as a surprise that their media kit has been printed on a Panasonic CDR and is labelled with the marks of a felt-tip pen. I picked up the Documenta press kit at ITB, an international travel fair every March in Berlin….
March 2012
22 posts
