You owe it to yourself to spend the next 4 minutes or so watching this clip. Photographer Robbie Cooper has a series of video captures (beautifully lit, I might add) of kids and young teens playing video games. Titled “Immersion”, one possible way to interpret the video is a damnation of the incredible magnetism of [...]
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I’m probably late to the party, but I LOVE the debut album by Vampire Weekend. Echoes of Paul Simon’s “Graceland”, both superficially (borrowing heavily from the themes of African music) and at a deeper level, as something ties each album’s tracks together, some sort of (gasp!) musical forethought.
Maybe I love the album because it’s such [...]
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I went to an extreme this week: I force quitted myself of the reddit habit. Reddit, if you’re somehow unfamiliar, is a social news aggregation website: members can rank user-submitted headlines that correspond to stories, images, and the like. In theory, the top 25 articles at any moment, the newspaper “front page” serves as a [...]
What a scene:
Bishop Don Magic Juan, a former pimp-turned-rap-celebrity, arrived just minutes before the ceremony ended, causing a stir as he sauntered down the aisle with an entourage of women who were scantily clad in gold and red. He held a pimp cup and wore a foot-tall crown and a blue velvet cape.
The ceremony lasted [...]
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One of the perks of the summer is how much downtime I have. Removed from midnight meetings and 2 AM problem sets, I’m finding there’s a fantastic world of goodness on TV.
Now, I’ve long said that TV is a slippery slope to stupidity, and I stand by that. 90% of television is still garbage. But [...]
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Well, snap. Time has finally forced me into talking about al-Zarqawi, another “welcome-back-from-your-coma” name. Let’s see this for what it really is: the most publicized killing of an individual since Kennedy. Every newspaper ran the gory image of Zarqawi’s head late last week, with direct-quote titles of “Eliminated” and “The Military Swiftly Hit its [...]
Nintendo continues to show off more details of their new-generation Wii gaming system, and I continue to be unimpressed. I’ve slowly moved from hard-core gamer to more casual to now almost playing zero (though I still play a mean game of Mini Putt). I just have problems with the Wii system.
We’re in a premium-buying [...]
Quite a few places (digg, del.icio.us, etc.) have mentioned this, a HUGE Video Game Collection in someone’s basement. Apparently, it’s taken on the order of 16 years to produce.
To the video game collector: Damn, sir.
But really, what’s the point of having a collection this big (besides the 15 minutes of fame it’s currently bringing) You [...]
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I’ve been writing a lot today because I keep procrastinating on cleaning my closet. Pictures are most likely to come, because it’s absurd the amount of crap I’ve thrown out. 5 full garbage bags. Yes, I know I should donate it somewhere, but I’m lazy. So in the trash it goes. If anybody has use [...]
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While I may be biased, Brendan has a good post on why the Xbox 360 has “officially” flopped. Check it out.
My personal thoughts: I’m not near the gamer Brendan is (and from rooming with him freshman year, I know first-hand from many a sleepless night of watching him beat Half-Life in “preparation” for the sequel. [...]
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