In the ABC Fora podcast Serious Gaming , Ian Bogost commented about the role of video games. He claims that video games are the one form of modern media that embraces complexity rather than shying away from it. The key characteristics of video games are modelling, role playing and world building. I found his comments…
The Sydney UX Book Club is going to discuss Glut at the next meeting so I’ve been reading it. Here’s a few comments and quotes: It immediately seems a more balanced book than Everything is Miscellaneous, giving more credence to the value of hierarchical information structures. “The fundamental tension between networks and hierarchies has been…
Jazz version of Night Watch John Weeton doing Starless Laurie Anderson: Only an expert/maybe if I fall Frippotronics Finger tapping guitar version of Isn’t She Wonderful Stevie Wonder live version of Isn’t She Wonderful Bush and Condi: Hu’s in China
In a podcast from TED, Clay Shirky makes some interesting points about the distinguishing characteristics of modern media… “The moment we are living through … is the largest increase in expressive capability in human history” Four media revolutions in the past 500 years: Printing press Telegraph and telephone Recorded media other than print: photos, sound,…
