November 2008
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Criterion Releases Streaming Films!!
anavalentina: piercethenight: andrewmuto: Criterion just made a MASSIVE overhaul of their website and they now offer streaming “rentals” of some of their library. The best part is that the $5 fee is put towards the purchase of the disc if you decide to buy it. The rest of their site got a revamp too and it really looks great. If you love cinema, check it out HERE. Totally, totally...
Nov 26th
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“In fact, Gabler is such a believer in the indie method of game making and the...”
– Quit your job and make your game - Citizen Gamer- msnbc.com Oh man, don’t tell me that. I am seriously tempted.
Nov 25th
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“I think it sucks ass that two guys tinkering away in their spare time have done...”
– Pretty great profile of Jason Rohrer, in Esquire of all places.
Nov 24th
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Nov 24th
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“On Nov 7, production on NBC’s Medium was temporarily shut down when an extra...”
– Exclusive: Bruno (a.k.a.) Sacha Baron Cohen Disrupts ‘Medium’ | Medium | Ausiello Files | EW.com I can’t wait for this movie. (via paulscheer > notjenny > bthny) News stories like this are much better promotion for Bruno than any commercial could ever be.
Nov 24th
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The Illusionist (2009 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An unproduced Jacques Tati script being made in animated form by Sylvain Chomet, director of The Triplets of Belleville? Yes, please.
Nov 24th
“Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading...”
– What Happy People Don’t Do - NYTimes.com
Nov 21st
“This is a little like when that grizzly bear finally ate Timothy Treadwell:...”
– Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy | The A.V. Club I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen a Grizzly Man metaphor.
Nov 19th
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Nov 19th
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GamerBytes Top 5 Games Launch XNA Community Games New Xbox Experience launches today. I downloaded it this morning and had enough time to make an avatar and flip through the menus. It looks nice. I’m excited about trying out the Netflix streaming and trying the demos for some of these Community Games.
Nov 19th
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Kokoromi’s Gamma 3D event, which I mentioned yesterday, happens tonight in Montreal and I totally wish I could be there. Since I can’t I’ll have to settle for Boing Boing’s new game blog Offworld revealing Kokoromi’s own entry for the exhibit super HYPERCUBE. It looks interesting, a puzzle game BB compares to Japanese game show “human tetris” that uses...
Nov 19th
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Fireflies, a game by Lee Byron for Kokoromi’s brilliant 3d anaglyph game exhibition Gamma 3D. I can’t wait to watch this video with 3D glasses, and I also can’t wait to see what some of the other Gamma 3D games look like! (via waxy.org)
Nov 18th
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Obama to Address the Nation Each Week on YouTube - NYTimes.com Awesome.
Nov 17th
The New Trough : Rolling Stone An excellent (and terrifying) profile of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout written by Naomi Klein. She goes into detail about the parallels between the bailout and private contractors in Iraq, and the intense conflicts of interest of paying those who got us into this mess to get us back out. I was going to do some pull-quotes, but really this article is so...
Nov 13th
“Dialogue in the Dark is an awareness-raising social franchising company,...”
– Dialogue in the Dark International I heard about this on Georgia Gazette last night, the exhibition is at Atlantic Station until March 1. I really want to do it.
Nov 13th
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Nov 3rd