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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Monthly Archives: March 2008
The Luke Arm
Opposite: Big Dog
Amagatana
Amagatana is a mystical sword for enjoying the blithe feeling after the rain. When you swing Amagatana, you can hear the sound of swords clashing from the headphone. Amagatana seems to be just a plastic umbrella. You also seem just … Continue reading
Chess Boxing with Kirsan Ilymzhinov
See also: The Remarkable Republic of Kalmykia
Arthur C. Clarke: 1917-2008
Video of Clarke’s “90th Birthday Reflections,” recorded in December, 2007.
Individuality
A fun little Java applet that allows you to play around in isometric space. Runs in your browser here.
Love: Procedural MMO
The idea of procedurally-generated MMOs has appealed to me for a while. I’ve tried to imagine what such a space might look like and how it might work, but a working prototype is really what’s needed to examine the concept … Continue reading
Flickrvision
Flickrvision shows realtime, geolocated Flickr photos. Just like Twittervision, it’s hypnotic to watch. The map moves around to show the location of the most recent tweet or photo. Both visualizations hail from David Troy, a VOIP consultant who has suddenly … Continue reading
C3: 10 Key Concepts
Sam Ford has helpfully put together a list of ten key concepts that have been articulated in various forms on the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium‘s blog, complete with links to the relevant posts, articles and off-site resources. Here’s the list: … Continue reading
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Players Make Play For Nothing
An insightful post by David Fono about community-based content generation in ARGs and MMOs: A couple of posts got me thinking about the issue of player generated content recently. Tony Walsh writes generally about players as storytellers as a trend … Continue reading
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Crucial Juncture for Blue Brain
The Blue Brain project is now at a crucial juncture. The first phase of the project—”the feasibility phase”—is coming to a close. The skeptics, for the most part, have been proven wrong. It took less than two years for the … Continue reading
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