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    I’m one of the author’s in the 2022 opdc (didn’t win anything, still trying to bear up under the shame…

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    Thank you for this very interesting collection, and for wrestling with the obviously mixed feelings on this anniversary. And thank…

Category: Art

  • Hey UNESCO – What About Us?

    I know that it is incredibly old school to read a newspaper while waiting for a BLT in a pub at lunchtime while out shopping, but I was in an old school kinda mood today. Flipping through the weekend ‘Life’ section of the Gazette, I discovered that the City was hosting ‘Design Montreal’s Open House’,…

  • Hollywood’s Bloody Ballet – What Game Design Can Learn From 300

    OrIf We Would Just Kneel – And Why We’d Rather Die For all of the lip service we pay to the notion of convergence, how many of us really understand what it means? Most often in the game industry convergence is used exclusively to refer to the coming together of games and movies. More ideally,…

  • MS Visual Multiverse

    Okay, now this blows me away. I know a lot of people can’t be bothered to install a bunch of Active-X Controls to look at a webpage, but believe me, this time it is so worth it. Microsoft Live Labs Photosynth parses a collection of photos and analyzes patterns in them – then assembles a…

  • I Stand Corrected – partly

    Just yesterday I blogged that Patrick Dugan had provided a very insightful critique/analysis of the game Ayiti: The Cost of Life, and I complained that it was "a shame more games are not reviewed or critiqued with such insight". Next thing you know, Jurie, over at Intelligent-Artifice points to Ian Bogost’s brilliant critique of Bully,…

  • Three Curvy Lines and the Truth

    Line Rider has been floating around the office lately – many offices I assume – and I finally mucked around with it for a while today. It’s wicked fun for some oddly perverse reason, and looking at YouTube, it seems like a load of other people have found it mesmerizing and strangely addictive to boot.…

  • Portrait of an Architect as and Old Man: Part Three

    Another thing that struck me about Pollack’s The Sketches of Frank Gehry (which is now available on DVD for those interested), was a scene where Gehry recalls, years previously, having asked Pollack how he managed to deal with working in a creative field with such strong commercial constraints. Pollack’s answer (in the perspective of his…

  • Portrait of an Architect as and Old Man: Part Two

    In one sequence in Sydney Pollack’s The Sketches of Frank Gehry, Pollack (who frequently appears in the film himself) asks Gehry if he sees his art in other things, or is inspired by art he sees around him. At first Gehry doesn’t seem to know what he means, and then Pollack explains that sometimes he’ll…

  • Portrait of an Architect as and Old Man: Part One

    For those who know Montreal, you probably know the Cinema du Parc. It was one of Montreal’s most important repertory cinemas, and it screened everything from obscure documentaries to classic films to modern award winners. Admission was cheap, popcorn wasn’t served in torso-sized sacks and you could actually get an 8-ounce soft drink. The Cinema…