I’ve become quite taken with two short, independent games that I discovered through boingboing. Both games have pixelated graphics reminiscent of early games, and involve using the arrow keys to move a character through an environment, while at the same time approaching gaming with an almost philosophical perspective that makes them more feel more like [...]
I watched Clash of the Titans this weekend. It has no titans – none whatsoever. It has giant scorpions, Medusa, a Kraken, but not titans. What’s possibly even worse, though, is that Clash of the Titans 3D has no 3D whatsoever. Taking off the 3D glasses actually made the image a lot clearer, which was [...]
Today, on what seems like the first real spring day, I learn that Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse has died. I didn’t know Mark outside of his music, but still his death somehow gets to me more than I would have expected. Perhaps because I get the sense that this is a conclusion of a life-long [...]
This is pretty amazing.
National Geographic photographer faces giant leopard seal, who then proceeds to attempt to teach him to how to hunt, and later on simply feeding him, out of sheer pity for his poor predatory skills. Seen at Boing Boing.
Although there is a difference between functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), this new song by Charlotte Gainsbourg resonates (heh!) quite well with me, since I’ve been spending so much time fMRI scan room lately. The jarring electrical noises in the song sound uncannily like our scanner here at the Dartmouth [...]
Yesterday I had a chance to watch the Shining on a big screen and I noticed a couple of interesting things about it. First of all, it had been a few years since I first saw it, and I have watched a lot of horror between then and now, but it struck me how [...]
I made the above image on befunky (hit “Get Started Now”, and then “Cartoonizer”) , one of no-doubt countless sites that give you the opportunity to create a cartoon based on a photo. I think it worked surprisingly well, looks like something from Waking Life. It’s nice to see how the program actually included [...]
I saw Animal Collective play for a sold-out House Blues in Boston a few days ago. It has been suggested that Merriweather Post Pavillon, their latest release, can be considered their “pop” album, and this was certainly confirmed by the venue and the crowd. But when they started playing, I was struck by the disconnect [...]
… was great! I presented on the second day of the conference, and it was probably the most gratifying thing I have done in academia so far. It was my first time presenting anything at an academic conference, but after the first couple of people, my nervousness disappeared. Everyone was extremely nice, and I got [...]
Good advice. And also a line spoken by Willem Dafoe in the second trailer for Antichrist. This is of course the new Lars von Trier movie, which will be shown at the Cannes film festival in less than two weeks. Now, I am a big Lars von Trier-fan: Not only is he my favourite Danish [...]