cinema was yesterday
... today is ↵machinima! Be sure to get ↑the other movies by ↑Snoken Productions, like Battlefield Double Dash, The Biggest and the Best, and Ya Rayah. They simply are hilarious. I hereby award the ↑Tex-Avery medal for outstanding accomplishments in the art and science of cartoonesque-absurdity and -stunts to Noken and friends.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mine

 
This piece of ↵machinima features insane surreal humour inspired by Monty Python, Finding Nemo, Madagascar ... creatively and congenially staged in ↑BF2: Snoken Productions' (↑Official Forums) ↑Mine [12:05min | .wmv | 68MB—many other sizes and formats scattered all around the net]. I mean, like, that's cyberculture! And ↑there's more by producer, director, stuntman, and clan leader Marcus "Noken" Johansson [who obviously has gathered quite a team around him] ... even things to come—the screencap above was taken from the ↑Mine 2 trailer [01:41min | .avi | 21MB]. With all this development of the machinima-scene—who still wants to go to the cinema? The Sergio-Leone flavored cap below stems from the Snoken Forums.avi
 

initially via e-mail from 2R—tnx!

cyberpunk review

 
No, that's neither ↵Teh_Masterer, nor ↵him—it's a character out of ↑Mamoru Oshii's 2001 movie Avalon. I took the screencap from ↑cyberpunkreview.com, a blog and "The most complete cyberpunk movie site on the net". It's nicely organised, decently looking, and the reviews are in-depth. Everyone with an inclination towards cyberpunk will find movies there s/he desperately wants to watch. And there's more—beyond reviews—there. Cyberpunkreview.com goes directly into my blogroll.

online field
↑The Information Society ↑21(↑4) is a special issue guest-edited by ↑Nancy K. Baym and dedicated to: "ICT research and disciplinary boundaries—is 'Internet research' a virtual field, a proto-discipline, or something else?"
via entry at digital genres

protest
Yesterday the students of 'my' institute, the ↑Institute for Sociocultural Anthropology at the ↑Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München launched a weblog called ↑protest. The blog is meant to be a platform for the organisation of measures against the current state of teaching at 'my' institute. To set matters straight: The students are not protesting against the teaching of my colleagues and me ;-) but against the structural 'weaknesses' concerning number of personnel and finances. Good luck gals'n'guys!

perfect imperfect
Well, ↑Jan Chipchase's twin weblogs ↑future perfect (work) and ↑present imperfect (play) aren't a chaotic information'n'media dumpster like cyberpunk-luminary ↑Bruce Sterling's weblog is, but I didn't really get their gist yet, though. Nevertheless the blogs mediate the ambience and feeling of a distinctively different perspective upon technology and its appropriation in Asia. Beware: picture heavy.
 
↑about future perfect:
↑about present imperfect:
via offline hint from fab—tnx

technotribe subculture
The TAZ carries an ↑article on anthropologist Anna Schöne, who does Ph.D.-level fieldwork on Berlin's techno[music]-scene. This statement of hers caught my eye: "Das Spezifische an der Subkultur ist, dass sie das, was unsere Kultur ausmacht, bewusst macht, ausdrückt und in Begriffe und einen Stil bringt." Crudely translated: Subcultures make aware what a given culture is composed of, mould it into concepts and styles—that is the specific aspect of subcultures. In a way this is true for the culture of gamemodding, too.
via entry at 2R