FYI
Is this real?!
My friend linked me to this and it seems too unreal.
More Wii Hacking
One Second Film Festival
I was there in the first one, and it’s brilliant!Third ONE SECOND VIDEO FESTIVAL extended its deadline till 5/5/2008
////jury:
The winner will be selected by a formula that combines the Gambling Online and the algorithm DEEP DREDD.
////rewards:
+ In this edition you can bet for the prize-winning video and gain some good money to cash or to spend on our favourite website virtual casino: UNIBET
+ THE VIDEO WINNER WILL INCREASE HIS/HER ECONOMY IN AT LEAST 500 EUROS.
+ watch the Bingo conference for the presentation of the festival (spanish)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=65141081480C642C[/youtube]
////dates:
1 April - 5 May : UPLOAD videos
5 May - 9 May : BETTING on videos
10 May : online PRIZING
////requisites:
_ fill up the application form
_ upload the 1 second video (.mov .wmv .avi .mpg) _ upload a snapshot of the vide
i.mirror: Second Life Documentary
I saw this film/machinima at NYUFF last month, I found them on Youtube and I thought you guys might be interested. It was also featured as part of the China Pavilion in the 2007 Venice Biennale
i.Mirror is a documentary in three acts recorded through China Tracy, the Second Life avatar of artist Cao Fei. The video opens with a poetic overture to the world of Second Life, followed by a waltzing, in-game romance between the artist and a man not exactly who he seems. i.Mirror’s conclusion is a montaged roll call of Second Life’s citizens, each peering into the camera—China Tracy—as they might the reflection of their own eyes. As the sequence crescendos, the mood of yearning held throughout the video shifts to triumph and the auras of real people peek through their digital fantasies. (NYUFF catalog description)
PART 1
a little more current update on the happenings of the OLPC project…
Sad to say, but perhaps the nice video of Dr. Negropronte might be a spector of days gone by…if you want to get edumacated on whats happing right now, try this:
From The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
Before the semester is gone, here’s a message we got from one of the lurkers on our blog:
Did you know that
- In the top box office G-rated movies from 1990-2005 three out of four characters are male?
- In the top box office G-rated movies from 1990-2005, plots with female leads often revolve around physical appearance and the ability to attract a male?
- That the prevalence of female characters being depicted as sexy (scantily clad, bedroom eyes, females valued for appearance rather than strength of inner character) is as high in G-rated films as in R-rated content?
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media (GDIGM) works with the entertainment industry to reverse these discrepancies. In 2004, Geena Davis sat with her pre-school age daughter watching television and movies, and they both began to notice something: a lack of female characters. Davis thought, if my daughter notices, then what message does this send to all children? She went on to raise funds for the largest research project ever undertaken on gender in children’s entertainment (4 discrete studies, including one on children’s television) and to found GDIGM (pronounced Gee-dime). Learn more at www.thegeenadavisinstitute.org.
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Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks again,
Melody Morrell
Program Associate
Xbox takes a hint…
Before I make my post of the week…
Updates: I bought a bluetooth usb adapter yesterday, Pens should be here by Monday (I really hope), My laptop is having trouble hooking up to the projector so it anyone wants to vonunteer installing a couple programs I need to use, let me know, although I’m not even certain what experiment I’ll be doing if I do it.
In recent news, Xbox 360 is stepping it up with their functions. After blu-ray took over, looks like they felt like they needed to do more. So, they decided to use similar technology the wii uses in motion detection:
A Charity Event (Race) that You May Be Interested In
I came across a volunteer/charity event for fundraising for women cancer patients that you might be interested in joining. It’s a race that will take place through Central Park on Saturday, May 3, where you can walk/run to help fundraising/donation. There’re different teams that you can join: different companies, different schools, etc.! This event is not only open for females, but for males as well!
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“Do it for your mother, do it for your sister, do it for your girlfriend, do it for yourself!”
The race is 5K, and you can run or walk, we usually split into small groups depending on the pace you want to take. The race goes through Central Park and ends on the Upper Eastside where there is an expo, goodie bags, and all the free post-race food you can choke down! It’s the most fun you can have hung over on a Saturday morning in Manhattan!
This years run of events are:
May 3 RACE CALL TIME Times Square- 7:30AM
To register, you will need to go to:Â
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www.revlonrunwalk.com and select the New York City race date, followed by the option to register. ( I am not sure if we have to register in order to participate in this event or we can just come to the site and follow the crowd. )
QQ More
| Again, this seems relevant to the class and to particular projects (and takes place right after class, and includes a talk by Alex Galloway, who we are reading for next week):
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| Curated by Eddo Stern
Light Industry April 8, 2008 at 8pm Artist Eddo Stern presents a screening of fan-made machinima from the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, focusing on videos that operate outside the traditional reverence of fan art and the game world’s own parameters, such as those dealing with real-life death, pornography, and drugs. While only dubiously subversive, they nevertheless reflect a compelling phenomenon, one in which a more hermetic idea of “fantasy” as cordoned-off reality (seen in hardcore role playing) is being replaced by pseudo-fantasy genre games like WoW that spill over into the real world, and vice versa, through the homebrew manipulations of its multitudinous fan base. Featured titles, among others, will include: Rest in Peace Ignoramus Stern will also be showing his recent video Best… Flame War… Ever… (King of Bards vs. Squire Rex, June 2004), which recreates an argument about degrees of expertise within the computer fantasy game Everquest, as followed by the artist in June 2004 on the Alkhazam online gaming message boards. Rendered in 3D animation at once elaborate and oblique, it serves as a spot-on ethnography for a particular slice of 21st century nerd culture and the thorny political terrain that surrounds it. Followed by a post-show discussion between Stern and Alexander R. Galloway.Tickets - $6, available at door. |
Clay Shirky on Colbert
Did anyone else see Shirky on the Colbert Report tonight? I’m not sure if it was a new episode or not but it ran on comedy central around 11. Shirky was promoting his book, “Here comes everybody”. I just happened to notice because Shirky wrote one of the responses to the article we read for last week.
