More ➜Learn the rules like a pro, so that you can break them like an artist, this is what Picasso told us to do. As a medium mediated by rules , but expressed through play, games exist on the border of this division. This essay explores how we conceptualize and define both rules and play, and the paradox […] Link
More ➜Progenitor of the early-2000s indie filmmaking wave that would come to be known as mumblecore, Andrew Bujalski has retained the handcrafted, DIY spirit that defined the movement even as his productions have grown (modestly) in budget and scale. His films are humorously offbeat, precisely observed snapshots of hyperspecific social microcosms—from a 1980s AI nerdfest in COMPUTER CHESS to the world behind the counter of a Hooters-like sports bar in SUPPORT THE GIRLS—lent vivid authenticity through their unfailingly naturalistic dialogue and keen understanding of human relationships. […] Link
More ➜Twin Peaks: Into The Night is an incredible fan made Twin Peaks game that recreates David Lynch and Mark Frost’s classic series as a PS1 styled adventure! […] Link
More ➜In 1962, experimental designer Ken Isaacs imagined and constructed a ‘knowledge box’, a compressed environment for experiencing ‘culture’: a cube of wood, masonite and steel equipped with twenty-four slide projectors and audio-suppliers. […] Link
More ➜The month that I wrote this, it was potentially the hottest month in human history. By the time you read this, you will have seen hotter. The month that I wrote this, there were fires and floods, there was mass suicides by whales. […] Link