Perhaps it is unfair to visit the sins of the medium upon a work as well made as this one. But not after an E3 during which Microsoft held a public relations event that featured 13 exclusive games and zero female protagonists for its forthcoming Xbox One; not after an E3 in which almost no women spoke during either Microsoft’s or Sony’s preconference spectacles; not after an E3 in which the two women who did appear onstage for Microsoft were alternately received with wolf whistles and told, while losing during a demonstration of a fighting game, “Just let it happen; it’ll be over soon.” A sickness resides at the heart of this promising, potentially transformative medium.
WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: Why you should care about surveillance
I got tired of people savvying me about the revelations of NSA surveillance and asking why anyone would care about secret, intrusive spying, so I wrote a new Guardian column about it, “The NSA’s Prism: why we should care.”
We’re bad at privacy because the…
A Lonely God - a series of slightly sad superhero posters.
I’m in love with this
I was just talking to an artist yesterday about the tendency to crop things really close and tight in order to enhance drama. If it’s overdone — which happens frequently with artists—you start to feel like you’re watching a movie through a hole in a sheet.
Pull the camera out. Be brave enough to let the reader orient.
Occasionally, in the right moment, pull the camera way, way out even. How does that effect the emotional beat?
These are beautiful
“Why should we care about women’s representation in video games?”
“Nobody is going to want a female protagonist!
“Their target audience isn’t big enough to warrant any games!”
“Women aren’t as capable as men, they don’t belong in video games!”
“If more women started playing video games, maybe then they’d have a say in the matter!”
Ruth Franklin: An open letter to a few good magazine editors; or, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore"
Dear Jim, Scott, Graydon, Hugo, Josh, and Adam:
I hope you don’t mind that I’m calling you by your first names, even though I know only one of you. (Josh and I go way back.) I realize I could have just said, “Hey guys!” which, come to think of it, really makes my point for me. But I wanted this…
BrooklynBookGirl: When My Tiny Fetus Of A Project Grows Into An Unwieldy Monstrosity
When the project began, I was ready for whatever came at me:
Then I hit my stride, and things were really moving along, and I was feeling rather proud and confident in the work:
When suddenly, to my horror, it began to get more and more complex with people making ludicrous…
There’s a strand of the data viz world that argues that everything could be a bar chart. That’s possibly true but also possibly a world without joy
Artist Erik Johansson and Adobe pranked unsuspecting people waiting for busses, by photographing them from afar and Photoshopping into ads at the very same bus stop they were waiting at!
Watch how surprised they are when they see themselves pop up on the screen!
People Waiting for the Bus Pranked by Being Photoshopped into Ads
