Free speech is not a marketing plan. Free speech is only any good if you take advantage of its invitation. So I say this to you, my video game maker brethren: say something. Say it like you mean it.

Persuasive Games: Free Speech is Not a Marketing Plan

by Ian Bogost

Cahill's octahedral "Butterfly Map"

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This trailer for Restrepo looks promising.

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[EDIT] I note that the comments for the trailer on YouTube have been disabled. Good Call.

On the effects of tilt-shift on Van Gogh.

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re: Fogonazos

Aspirins - Cutter

Aspirins - Cutter from Mr. Harrison on Vimeo.

28 Days Later OST - In Paradisum (edited by John Murphy)

re: An Idiot Abroad (Holi)

Cool little stop motion advertisement.

Gaz Metro A Natural Evolution from La Moustache on Vimeo.

Although I'll be honest, I'm having a hard time drawing a connection between scribbling in chalk on a building and what appears to be the promotion of some kind of 'clean/[generic hippy buzzword]/responsible' energy agenda.

[EDIT]

I get it now. If you your energy is provided by this company, you may notice that you can scribble chalk over the exterior of buildings at night. This is useful for those who are in the business of making quaint little adds in stop motion for power companies.

So at the end of the day, this is an ad for the company that did the ad for the power company.

I change my mind; I resent this ad.

Consequently, though once this entry was filed simply under 'ART', it now also answers to 'RANT'.

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Big Brother and the holding company - Take another little piece of my heart

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Devo " Gut Feeling " first time in live in 1977

Believe it! The Goon is commin'

re: hipsterhitler

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Well, played Sir.

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From this:

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Wait, Santa is... what exactly?

---Speculated scene from "Rare Exports"---

SENTRY 1:

Sure is quiet.

SENTRY 2

Too quiet.

SENTRY 1:

Shit! What's that?

SENTRY 2:

Whats what?

SENTRY 1:

There, at the edge of the clearing, in the trees. See it?

SENTRY 2:

It's just the wind.

SENTRY 1:

No I don't think so.

[The wind abates, yet the trees continue to jostle as a great weight shifts within]

SENTRY 2:

Oh God! They're here! They've come for him!

[Hundreds of MIDGETS in brightly coloured outfits descend from the trees, and swarm around the perimeter of the camp]

[SENTRY 1 fires his ASSAULT RIFLE wildly into the hoard]

SENTRY 1:

ELVES!

--- Cut to black ---

Squid Iridescence (Also the first post of CreatureCast)

CreatureCast - Squid Iridescence from Casey Dunn on Vimeo.

I've been following CreatureCast for a while now, and I rekkon they've done an awesome job at making the topic of marine biology accessible and engaging for those without a background in science.

I love these guys.

Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom (Ilya Repin)

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