On the Elspa’s website you can find a pdf version of their white paper about women and videogames, titled chicks and joysticks. It is written by Aleks Krotoski (she’s also writing about games in the very good Guardian gamesblog.)
In front of the office they are doing some extraordinary constructions. Onle one wall is still standing, and they are injecting concrete, over the wall – they have even moved a crane over the wall.
N wanted to take some pictures, but I beat him to it…
d=(^o^)=b
They resemble insect legs, spiders making their concrete web…
And then all of a sudden, the sun came out and shedded a divine light (-_^).
For this picture, the frame is not correct, but in a way that does not disturb…
For this one, the camera even made a mistake.
Camera’s make mistakes too.
Yet!
Today, somebody I know and appreciate dearly is going to buy this guitar:
Perhaps I will have to learn some chords to…
OK, merchandising is not my thing, but this site is quite cool!
“With his mastery of the arcane secrets of Noodlecraft, the Pastamancer is a force to be reckoned with. He relies on his Mysticality to get ahead in the world.” The pastamance is one of the characters you can be in Kingdom of Loathing, a free online role playing game.. The same people at Asymmetric also made this beautiful Dancing Tonto!
Spent some time yesterday on Do-it-yourself games, a very good news website about independently produced games, most of them freely downloadable. It’s also a very good place to visit for those who regret the disparition of text or point-and-click adventures and that kind of stuff. Here is their mission stastement :
” * Provide our readers with honest in-depth reviews and previews of games from independent developers without hype or propaganda.
* Publish informative and educational features that cover a wide range of topics.
* Provide timely and insightful news stories that focus on the world of independent games while still covering topics that pertain to gaming in general.
* Commit ourselves to our readers, realizing that they are the reason we’re here.
* Never compromise journalistic integrity while in pursuit of a story.”
Speaking of which (indie games, not journalistic integrity), you could do worse than downloading the very nice remake of the classic Lucasart game Maniac Mansion, produced by a bunch of talented German Lucasmaniacs : it’s great nerd fun! “You guys did an amazing job. My hat is off to you. “, says Ron Gilbert, one of the authors of the original game, about this remake (about Ron Gilbert, his Grumpy Gamer blog, subtitled Ron Gilbert’s often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry is a great read).
There you can find a series of classic Wonder Woman covers, with also for each issue one inside page, a small sample of the William Moulton Marston stories.
And for something completely different, but still a comics, here are two pages about trucks and their natural habitat, by Isabel Rucker.
Fascinating mix of images : this is an archive of photographs coming from various p2p networks. Was the sharing of those intentional or not? One can meditate about it while looking at this enormous random selection.
Here is one to give you an idea.
(nice band-aid even if not sticky enough)
Part of constant is in Mallorca, at Sa Taronja, to take part in the Ping festival. Here are some photographs, more will follow.
lemons
the floor of Laurent Thurin’s exhibition
and his desk
walkie talkie, later used during opening performance
wendy and contact mike
unfortunately empty
