I have posted about my love of videoblogger Jay Smooth before. He's probably best known on the Internets for his famous video on how to tell people they sound racist, which I expect most of you have seen before (but if not you should go watch it right now). Recently, he gave a follow-up TED talk at Hampshire College, and it is very excellent.

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So I've been meaning to write my own big long post on this topic, but I'm holding off until I finish the first season of the HBO series (which, if my current schedule holds, should happen a week from today). Meanwhile, though, I've been busy mulling over Sady Doyle's recent takedown of the series in Tiger Beatdown. It's been frustrating to me, ( Read more... )

The National Endowment for the Arts has now declared video games to be eligible for art grants funding:

Projects may include high profile multi-part or single television and radio programs (documentaries and dramatic narratives); media created for theatrical release; performance programs; artistic segments for use within an existing series; multi- ( Read more... )

Every time I think Chef Tom Colicchio can't get any more awesome, he finds a way to prove me wrong.

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So I was following links off posts on
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