We’re lacking a clear backstory and dramatic arc for Puzzle Farter. Why is this story happening to this character, now? Why is he so gassy?
Hilarious! From John August: If film studios developed video games.

An unusual use of a gaming engine: Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn has created a kind of (in their own words) ‘explorable painting’. I quote:
The Graveyard is a very short computer game designed by Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn. You play an old lady who visits a graveyard. You walk around, sit on a bench [...]

Swedish DICE has something different up their sleeves. A game called ‘Mirror’s Edge’ where the plot is taking place in the near future where a William Gibson-esque city, heavily controlled, depend on ‘runners’ or ‘couriers’ to carry underground or rebel information, because this has become safer than any electronic transaction. You play a female protagonist [...]

As I said in a previous post, where Garfield was removed from the Garfield strip, I saw a trend coming. This time, Jon Haddock has found some internet porn images and have then removed the people in them. Hmm… [via]

‘Spectre’. Photo by Derek Frey
Derek Frey took a trip back to the abandoned set of the small town ‘Spectre’ from the movie ‘Big Fish‘ (he worked as Tim Burton’s assistant on the movie). Usually such sets are taken down after shooting, but according to John August it stayed there by request from the owner of [...]

Quote from TED newsletter:
Take a look at these films. They are each just one minute long. They feature a choir in one country singing another country’s national anthem: a simple idea that packs surprising emotional power.
France sings for USA
Kenya sings for India
Japan sings for Turkey
My favourite so far: Australia sings for Lebanon
Part of the Pangea [...]

I’ve just returned from a lovely prolonged weekend in Berlin. As I remembered it from my previous visit, ten years ago, it’s a city that has a certain aura of infinite possibilities and bohemian attitude. Although not as ‘underground’ as a lot of stuff you can experience in Berlin (such as a night club in [...]

Pure genious! Who would have thought that Garfield would be funnier - without Garfield? I see a new trend coming…