Gold farmers in Lishui. [source]
Will Eslinger of Entertaining Grime has up a list of his top 5 pieces of game writing:
1. The King of Azeroth by Julian Dibbell
2. Little Big Planet meditation by Michael Abbott
3. The Video-Game Programmer Saving Our 21st-Century Souls by Jason Fagone of Esquire
4. Why We Need More Torture in Games by […]
As I’m moving toward a place in my academic career where I’m thinking more about publishing my work, I’m drawn to thinking about some of the problems with academic publishing. In particular, I’m concerned about how limited access is to academic journals. danah boyd recently-ish posted about why she’s made the decision to post only […]
“Each label, like apartheid, multiplies us by our divide and whips us ’til we conform to lesser figures. What falls between the cracks is a pile of records stacked to the heights of talents hidden from the sun. Yet the energy they put into popularizing smut makes a star of a shiny polished gun.” — […]
The man above is Gordon Bell. He’s a researcher at Microsoft, and among his projects is a personal archive. An obsessive personal archive. A personal archive that is perhaps the most exhaustive of its kind. The project is called MyLifeBits. As pointed out in the New Yorker in May, the project has some ambiguous implications […]
Amy Chance, professional make up artist, is one of the more glamorous people I’ve known. She does beautiful work for music videos, magazine shoots (see above), ads and all kinds of other things, and still has the patience to explain to me how to keep my eyeshadow from getting all wrinkly. In any case, […]