Clashing with Star Wars
Two items where Star Wars runs up against participatory culture: the completely awesome Animals with Lightsabers and the completely logical one-off joke The Hook.
The Gamer Generation’s Parenting Style
In Properly Molding the Gamer Child: “I strongly encourage both girls’ fascination with Pokemon. Pokemon provide fulfillment to every human being’s basic desire to have an army of monsters. Also, Pokemon spend all their time fighting each other, which is good. For what other reason would one want […]
Happy International Zine Month!
July is International Zine Month–make a zine in 24 hours, attend events in Glastonbury, Portland and Minneapolis, get cut’n’pastey!
ComicKaze in Cambodia!
One page, one artist, one hour–2 countries. See some of the Cambodian comics here.
Game Developers Conference: Golden Gate
Former Gutter Overlord and Games Editor, Jim Munroe, has written a really nice little text adventure set at the 2009 Game Developers Conference. Rock Paper Shotgun calls it an “[o]ddly human little thing which captures quite a bit about the human side of development.”
Ebert Hunts the Snark
Roger Ebert suggests that snarking “has operated almost as a reflex to smack down behavior that upsets our expectations.” And offers the case study of Joaquin Phoenix’s hip-hop persona/possible Andy Kaufmanesque performance art project.
The Cultural Gutter 