This was a great game. One that has consumed much of my thought over the past few week and demanded a more detailed discussion than my usually short con game descriptions. One of the greatest things about it was that I had heard such good things about it going in, yet it lived up to my high expectations. I could talk about the many artistic reasons ( Read more... )

I'm in San Antonio, Texas, for the APA/AIA, the big annual conferences for Classics and Classical Archaeology, and the ASGLE, a new epigraphy conference. A few friends and I have rented a house in Southtown a short walk south of the Downtown area. One of those friends rented a car for a couple of days, so today we went driving.

First stop was the ( Read more... )

For the LARPers among you: Finnish Larp theorist jiituomas links to an online version of his his MittelPunkt 2010 paper A Brief Introduction to Larp as an Art Form.

Elsewhere, Deeper in the Game has a brief but thought provoking piece about representations of race in RPGs: The validity of stories. There are a lot of links worth pursuing in DitG's blogroll ( Read more... )

Has Banksy jumped the shark? It sounds like his fans in the art world have set up the ramp and stocked the swimming pool, at the very least. (And everyone's star has to dim sometimeAs a fellow student of cultural artifacts that are accorded an entirely different set of values in the modern world, the final section of the archaeopop post on the ( Read more... )

Songs that sound even more awesomer with my new headphones: Love Island; anything by VNV Nation; the Timmy Schumacher* remix of Scorpio Girls; Firestarter; Galvanise; I could go on**.

The LA screenings of Nerdcore Rising are being held at The Engine Theatre at Studio 1636, a theatre-slash-art-installation with a steampunk-esque screen which ( Read more... )