I found this video via information esthetics It's off a web site called The Girl Effect..it's basically a text movie made in Flash. Stylistically it borrows heavily from Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, a Korean artist who has made many poems in this style. Although the sponsors are hard to find on the web site, Nike is one of them.
What do you think about:
the style?
the message?
the messenger?
-sam smiley
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Games and Representation
Today I followed a great thread about gaming, politics and representation. So just a few links here, to start this out.
First, Girl in the Machine, a blog about race, gender, politics and gaming caught my eye. Lots of great links and articles. Hosted by a straight girl, a gay guy, and a bi girl, the blog talks very opening about gender dynamics in gaming, with the added advantage of being written by gamers (not ABOUT gamers) You can find it at http://girlinthemachine.blogspot.com/
From there I got a link to a game called ICED: I Can End Deportation. The object of the game is to escape deportation from the United States. You can download the game from here: http://www.icedgame.com/ I think the dialogue surrounding the game is as interesting as the game itself, and if you want to read more about it, you can go an article at Joystiq, a blog about gamer culture, to read the various comments.
I could go on, but I'll stop for now..and start playing.
-sam smiley
First, Girl in the Machine, a blog about race, gender, politics and gaming caught my eye. Lots of great links and articles. Hosted by a straight girl, a gay guy, and a bi girl, the blog talks very opening about gender dynamics in gaming, with the added advantage of being written by gamers (not ABOUT gamers) You can find it at http://girlinthemachine.blogspot.com/
From there I got a link to a game called ICED: I Can End Deportation. The object of the game is to escape deportation from the United States. You can download the game from here: http://www.icedgame.com/ I think the dialogue surrounding the game is as interesting as the game itself, and if you want to read more about it, you can go an article at Joystiq, a blog about gamer culture, to read the various comments.
I could go on, but I'll stop for now..and start playing.
-sam smiley
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