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13 Apr

Reaching to the crowds

Crowd-sourced game development: The next big thing?

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Video Games
Tagged Art, bits, blogging, chris anderson, development, game, gaming, hand eye society, homebrew, indie, online, video games, wired
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10 Jan

Gender Benders

Why is gender bending not a part of Canadian popular culture?

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Human Rights
Tagged androgyny, Art, bowie, gender, gender bending, indie, information, labels, narrative, online, prejudice, society
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13 Nov

All play, no work: Gamercamp v 1.0

Why you should send the kids to Gamercamp: an interview with co-organizer Mark Rabo.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Technology, Video Games
Tagged Art, fiction, Gamercamp, gaming, hand eye society, IGDA, information, interactive, Internet, mario, Mark Rabo, online, programming, sound, Toronto, video games
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21 Oct

Brit-tunes

That’s right Billy, I’m back and I WANT YOU. King Charles, Local Natives and Jeremy Warmsley.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Music
Tagged british, chess club, england, Jeremy Warmsley, king charles, local natives, Music, uk
Comments (1)

17 Oct

The art of awe

Cube mosaics; giant one-colour paintings; dusty attic furniture: modern art’s got a bad rep. What’s the solution?

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Technology
Tagged Art, beuys, cubism, dali, deininger, halley, indie, information, modern art, online, painting, photography, picasso, pop, pop art, sculpture, trash art, van Doesburg, willard
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12 Oct

Dear sports fans: Get the fuck off my lawn.

Why sports fans and gaming don’t mix.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Video Games
Tagged Art, console war, gaming, graphics, information, madden, soulja boy, sports, sports fans, subjectivity, video games, xbox
Comments (3)

02 Oct

Generation gap

Poets need to move on to new mediums to deliver their messages to our generation.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Human Rights, Literature, Video Games
Tagged argosin, Call of Duty, gaming, grand theft auto, holocaust, Human Rights, information, information wants to be free, Internet, mario, Movies, narrative, new media, poetry, poets, video games
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28 Sep

District 9: just sci-fi

Though it wants to be an extended metaphor for South African apartheid, Neil Blomkamp’s sci-fi epic is just a sci-fi epic.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Movies
Tagged aliens, allegory, blomkamp, district 9, jackson, metaphor, movie, prawns, racism, sci-fi, south africa
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26 Sep

Brit-tunes

‘Ello ‘ello! Brit-tunes returns and takes a look at London’s silly hair trio: Esser, Micachu and Josh Weller.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Music
Tagged british, disco, esser, experimental, josh weller, london, micachu, Music, pop, rock, sound
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16 Sep

Faith in fantasy

Psychological fantasy films and the path to the unreal in art.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Literature, Movies, Music, Video Games
Tagged Art, beatles, belief, faith, fantasy, imagination, mmog, narrative, pan's labyrinth, sci-fi, subjectivity, text, the orphanage, unreal, world of warcraft
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15 Sep

The Movie Franchise Killed the Comic Book Star

Why Disney’s Marvel acquisition signals the death of comic books but the survival of superhero mythology.

By Alex Cybulski
Also posted in Art, Literature, Movies
Tagged batman, Comic books, DC, Disney, franchises, icon, Marvel, Movies, mythology, narrative, sign, spider-man, superhero, superheroes, superman, symbol, writing
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03 Sep

It’s hip to be square

Sometimes, what’s not cool is cool. And that’s cool.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Music
Tagged bob dylan, conformity, cool, counter cool, counter culture, Music, the pixies, v-fest
Comments (3)

31 Aug

Literacy 2.0

The Internet is no time waster – it’s turning youth into a literate legion.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Journalism, Literature, Technology
Tagged Art, information, Internet, literacy, lunsford, social media, society eye, stanford study, the new literacy, Thompson, Twitter, youth
Comments (1)

28 Aug

Meshing the virtual and real

Virtual worlds offer us freedom from the boundaries of reality. So why do we project the problems of the world into our second lives? By Alex Cybulski.

By Alex Cybulski
Also posted in Art, Technology, Video Games
Tagged economics, existenialism, post modernism, sartre, second life, subjectivity, world of warcraft
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Category Archive: Pop Culture

Reaching to the crowds

Gender Benders

All play, no work: Gamercamp v 1.0

Brit-tunes

The art of awe

Dear sports fans: Get the fuck off my lawn.

Generation gap

District 9: just sci-fi

Brit-tunes

Faith in fantasy

The Movie Franchise Killed the Comic Book Star

It’s hip to be square

Literacy 2.0

Meshing the virtual and real

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