Machinima

Machinima's a new form of filmmaking that uses computer games technology to shoot films in the virtual reality of a game engine. Rather than picking up expensive camera equipment, or spending months painstakingly tweaking even more expensive 3D packages, Machinima creators act out their movies within a computer game. We treat the viewpoint the game gives them as a camera - “Shooting Film in a Virtual Reality”, as we've been known to put it in their more slogan-high moments – and record and edit that viewpoint into any film we can imagine.

http://www.machinima.com

Polygen

Il Polygen è un programma che genera frasi casuali secondo una definizione grammaticale, ovvero seguendo un corpus programmabile di regole sintattiche e lessicali.
Formalmente è un interprete di un metalinguaggio che permette di definire linguaggi.
Interpretare, in generale, significa eseguire un programma ed infine riportarne il risultato; nel caso del Polygen il programma è una grammatica sorgente, l'esecuzione consiste nell'esplorazione di tale grammatica lungo un percorso casuale ed il risultato consiste in una frase.
Sebbene il Polygen sia quindi un programma abbastanza serio, in quale maniera più nobile potrebbe essere utilizzato se non come strumento di parodia di abitudini, stereotipi e trend di questa disgraziata epoca?
I princìpi della parodia sono, prima, mettere a fuoco una tematica ridicola, poi, astrarne regole e schemi (nella fattispecie in termini di una definizione grammaticale) tramite i quali riprodurla attraverso lo strumento della variazione.
E la casualità è perfetta a questo scopo grazie al suo comportamento imprevedibile e asemantico.

http://polygen.org/web/index.html

Yoga Deathmatch

Yoga Deathmatch
"... a video about the similarities between the ancient Hindu art of spiritual discipline and the rather more modern art of online gaming. Watch the higher self rack up high scores getting to the next level of consciousness in the transcendentally physical world of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch! It’s a little over four minutes and change, keep reading for the download links and screenshots."

Realtime Film Festival

You can now submit your films for the Realtime Film Festival!

You can submit your work in the following categories:

Cut Scenes
Films and sequences which are part of computer or console games based on realtime technology like intros, trailers etc.

Flash
Films in the SWF format, using realtime features of Macromedia Flash (eg. Actionscript,tweenings)

Machinima
Movies shot in real time with game engines

Demos
Small EXE programs that make the computer generate 3D animations in realtime

VJ Visuals
Realtime shows by VJs mixing visuals live to the music (please send in a showreel that documents your live performance)

http://www.fmx.de/

The 50 Best Robots Ever

The 50 Best Robots Ever By Robert Capps

They're exploring the deep sea and distant planets. They're saving lives in the operating room and on the battlefield. They're transforming factory floors and filmmaking. They're - oh c'mon, they're just plain cool! From Qrio to the Terminator, here are our absolute favorites (at least for now).

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Lessig's Anti-Lessig Wiki

Lessig's Anti-Lessig Wiki
Lawrence Lessig has created a Wiki to criticize his work.
Now that's and example of being true to your principles, but even better it's got the potential to be a really useful tool to understand the copyright wars from all perspectives.
[blog lessig]

font http://www.futurismic.com/2006/01/lessigs-anti-lessig-wiki.html

Italy, Harbinger of Futurity

Italy, Harbinger of Futurity
photos and posts from Milan about italy , future and politics
on sterling's blog beyond the beyond

http://blog.wired.com/sterling/

Folk Songs for the Five Points

Folk Songs for the Five Points is a digital arts project that allows you to create your own “folk songs” by remixing and overlaying a range of sounds taken from New York’s Lower East Side.

The SoundMap features a visual representation of the Lower East Side, overlaid with a series of dots. Each dot represents an audio sample recorded at that particular place. To select a sample, click and drag one of circles over the chosen dot. The sample will then automatically start playing.

http://www.tenement.org/folksongs/