Thursday 28 February 2008

Boneless girl: Ultimate objectified female body

Try it by yourself here. This casual game works so well that it is just fun to play even if there seems to be no goal at all. Trickiest part is to get her through very tight places. I would like to try a male version of this game, because the girl makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. She is like a dead body .Maybe if she had more clothes it would make a difference...

Oh, here is a Bush-version, fortunately clothes on.

Japan crossword


In case my explantion did not make the idea of Japan crossword (aka Nonogram, Paint By Numbers, Griddler, CrossPix, Hanjie) clear, here is a picture of one in progress. Sorry about the bad quality, my better camera is luckier than me at the moment as it is travelling somewhere around San Francisco bay area. ;)


Try it online here (this one is very easy).

Wednesday 27 February 2008

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I have just started to record my Wii ethnography in a blog and would appreciate any comments or suggestions. It is still in its early stages and I am having a few problems digitsing the footage that I intend to post but hopefully these technical issues will be sorted by the weekend. Here is the URL:

http://y-ope.blogspot.com/

I am currenlty preparing a post that focuses on the relationship between Mii avatars and their creators and will support this using some recordings of my girlfriend and I creating our Miis for the first time.

I found some work completed by Robbie Cooper that investigates avatars and their creators, he photographed game players and contrasted them with the avatars that they had created:

http://www.confundo.net/AlterEgo/index.html

http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts/alterego_4620.jsp


There was recently a documentary on BBC2, although I think it was originally aired on BBC4, that tackles the relationship between real and virtual worlds. It is on YouTube (in many pieces of course!) but has expired on iPlayer already. Here is the first part:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PniWHuv9Xko

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