September 30, 2008
3:00 pm
Consider this a public service announcement that Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, Terry Pratchett’s Nation AND Jonathan Carroll’s The Ghost in Love are out today. TODAY. Go! Stop reading this and go, dammit! Hie thee to a bookstore! Or Amazon! I could also note that the 2-disc Blu-Ray set of Iron Man is out today, […]
September 30, 2008
1:44 pm
I’m seriously stimulated by all this talk about the Internet of Things, particularly these talks from PICNIC, which led in part to this post from Bruce Sterling, which references this RFID-enabled wine rack, this wooden bowl (which I swear I first saw done in Hiroshi Ishii’s Tangible Media group at the Media Lab), this nifty […]
September 30, 2008
8:54 am
It saddens me to announce that this morning I was forced to part company with something dear to me, something that had been with me a long time. We had literally seen the world together, but in the end, it wasn’t enough. When you come home from a trip and one of your cats pees […]
September 27, 2008
9:55 am
I’d like to announce the release of Eludamos, the Journal for Computer Game Culture, which is now available for reading online as HTML or downloading as a PDF at eludamos.org. The table of contents for this issue includes: An introduction by Gareth Schott “Using Literary Theory to Read Games: Power, Ideology, and Repression in Atlus’ […]
September 26, 2008
1:31 pm
One day this week I came into the lab and discovered a big, hefty box on my office doorstep. In it was the large order I’d sort of forgotten that I’d placed from the big huge sale that Top Shelf was having earlier, including a big stack of the diary comics of James Kochalka, Superstar. […]
September 21, 2008
10:12 am
The New York Times published a great profile of Disney’s attempt to revive the Muppets this week. The piece profiles both the company’s mismanagement of Kermit and company over the last couple of decades and its new plan of attack to bring these old friends back into the public consciousness. There are bits and pieces […]
September 20, 2008
3:39 pm
First off, let me assure all my friends and co-conspirators that yes, I have returned from Texas safe and sound, and actually Ike gave Austin a wide enough berth that aside from a number of uncomfortable-looking evacuees camping out in another part of the Austin Convention Center, there was very little evidence of anything out […]
September 12, 2008
2:58 pm
Next week is the Austin Game Developers Conference, wherein my fellow GAMBITeer Matt Weise and I will be presenting our video game adaptation workshop. I’m excited, because this will be the first time I’ve presented at a GDC event, but I’m also a little apprehensive – not because of the whole public speaking thing (which […]
September 10, 2008
10:03 am
Last night I settled into the couch and watched the two-hour series premiere of JJ Abrams‘ new series Fringe. As a follower of Abrams’ work (I’m a latecomer fan to LOST, I caught Cloverfield in its original theatrical release and his TED talk is one of my favorites) I’d been looking forward to this for […]
September 9, 2008
6:22 pm
It’s taken me a long time, but I think I’m finally getting better at drawing women. While I was moving my files around and moving into the cloud this weekend I realized that I hadn’t been scanning or posting anywhere near the amount of sketches and drawings I tend to do in my spare time, […]
