Musing: Art, Rape Shirts, Wolves, and the Gamer Culture

Interesting topic line, I know. I didn’t expect to write that either. And below is an interesting picture you didn’t expect to see. It’s an image from Penny Arcade that appeared on a shirt they were selling on their website. It has since been removed, but not because PA is afraid of doing dick jokes. [...]

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8-Bitscapes Up the Ante for Real Life Bitness

I like it when there is a good idea that gets taken to the next level. Illustrator Jamie Sneddon and photographer Kevin Rozario-Johnson have gotten together for a little art project called 8-Bitscapes. In this series, they’ve taken photographs and combined them with 8-Bit styled art. The end result looks quite a bit better than [...]

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Podcast 007 – Violent Libraries

Podcast Number 007 is here. This one started because we were talking about the First Amendment case concerning video game sales to minors. It was recorded before Congresswoman Gabby Giffords shooting in Tuscon, Arizona. So if you’re listening and begin to wonder why we’re not addressing it, it’s because it happened in the past. We [...]

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Eclectic Method’s 8-Bit MixTape

Eclectic Method is a UK-based group of audio-visual artists that are much more than mere dj’s. This is what happens when they do it the 8-bit way. Download it here. So how do you like that? Mr Benja.

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Venice and Video Game Posters

Over the weekend, I rolled to Santa Monica with Josh to check out the Multiplayer video game poster show at the new Gallery 1988 Venice. We’ve been to the Melrose location before, so we wanted to check out what was happening at the new spot, and we weren’t disappointed. Check out the entire picture set [...]

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