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'Flick-werk zusammengestückelte Arbeit; stümperhafte Arbeit, Pfuscherei; Sy Flickschusterei
(Wahrig - Deutsches Wörterbuch)
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Friday, January 31, 2003
Non-linear painting
Mayte Mari rubs raw pigments into oil-paint, creating rough, structured canvasses in earthy colors. Almost abstract, evocative of barren landscapes. Broken lines, like roads or rivers or furrows, meeting (or missing) horizons. Many of her pieces are collected in groups of three or four. Some are available as photographs on her site (click "Malerei", then the signature, then "galerie").
Her best works are the series of three or four where one screen is filled with a single color. (There's no photo of my favorite, three black on beige screens and between #2 and #3 one covered in white strcutured plastic.) The single screen disrupts the lineary of the series and forms a perfect Leerstelle for the (?) reader (?) to fill.
15:30 PM
Friday, January 31, 2003
Citing Games X
Jill, Torill and Mark discuss the correct syntax for Games in bibliographies.
I came across the same problem when I finished my thesis in '99 and went for the MLA-(4th edition)-approach: author (if given), title, release, publication medium, city of publication, publisher, year - leave out whatever information is not available. So basically, it was title, medium, publisher, year. Which, most conveniently, circumvents the question of personal or collective authorship.
-- Come to think of it, the bibliography is the only part of my thesis where the much-called-for disappearence of the author in digital fiction becomes a remote possibility.
And anyway, the reason for a bibliography is for people to find your references. With books, you choose the authoritative edition (because you don't want to base a thesis on a typo) and the combined information of publisher, year of publication (and edition) and page-number allows for the undisputable retrieveability to the quote in question. The decision to present the titles sorted by author appears arbitrary (although it allows the academic reader to find out if the writer herself has assimilated the relevant predecessors).
When it comes to computer games, however, hardly anyone knows names of authors, teams, or publishers even. It's easiest so find a game in a list of sources if it's filed under its title. And to trace a game, e.g. via google, you'd need title and, perhaps, publisher.
I agree with Mark that naming the chief authors/ creators would help building for game designers the same recognition as for authors - but is a reference-table the best place for this quest?
Quick check: Computerspielemuseum goes vaguely by publisher/ title, German entertainment-software database Zavatar goes by title (after a genre-filter). - Which is how most cheat/ walkthrough-sites work.
15:10 PM
Thursday, January 30, 2003
Start Trek Morpheus
Seen the new Star Trek. Snore.
But ok, at least now we know:
- we're all equal, but if you misbehave, Daddy will come for you
- a clone will always be an individual because we are out experiences
- cloning will never work because the cells used are already aged, so clones will age faster (this one's been in the tabloids about a week ago)
- probably because of their origin in aged cells, clones are stubborn and less human in their failure to desire to better themselves (so despite (2), clones should not live)
- while we're at it, the whole cyborg-craze has been (at best) a sentimental quirk and we better not get too attached to our silicone pals
(I said this was going to be dull...)
8:45 PM
Thursday, January 30, 2003
Are they kidding?
Must be ...
I don't want to see the "or used for only"-function for this one ...
8:30 PM
Monday, January 20, 2003
Black and White Movie
Seen LOTR.
Ok. I'm late blogging this one, too. But still ...
New Zealand sure is beautiful. I'm really glad Adrian blogged what he did. Explains a lot.
Still I wonder why don't find LOTR more moving than I do. Because I don't. It's ok as far as a night at the movies goes. But beyond that? I mean, apart from the beautiful backdrop, it's just a pretty plain story about Good winning over Evil with a distinction between G. and E. so sharp it borders on the surreal. G. is good and E. is bad and bad is very much external to good. Hence Gollum's split personality. Hence little Frodo who can only get in touch with his mean side when he's putting on this ring. And then this "the very small ones can be great heroes"-plot. And then: war. Of course it's Evil and no-one wants it, but when your country and lifestyle (by definition: Good) are at risk, you have to do it and once it starts, it turns into everybody's business and cannot be ignored. A bit of ecosocialism cannot really turn this black and white story green (let alone multi-colored).
Come to think about it, I wonder why I don't find LOTR more offensive.
11:30 PM
Sunday, January 19, 2003
Late
If you must know, yes, I missed the Frankfurt airplane-kidnapping two weeks ago. By the time I heard about it, put my shoes on and gotten my camera ready, it was already over. I hadn't heard the helicopters or the fighter-jets and the alleged road-blocks must have been installed elsewhere.
I am also unforgivably late in blogging this.
So, what's keeping me? a) Web Design Studios are not really known for regular 9-5 hours. Stress, says Matthias Horx, is the latest status-symbol. And stress, he says, is the incapability to reconcile the demands of job, family, friends and personal interests ("hobbies"). I could do with less status ...
Then there's this, initially meant to be just a little HTML-help for a friend. Requirements: a no-nonsense, newspaper-like layout using the baby-blues and pinks dictated by the Mainz university-styleguide. + easy-to-update content with minimum-demands on whoever maintains the site. I chose SSL over Dreamweaver and so far, it has proven the right decision - the pages load ok, no noticeable delay. Also, I included a search courtesy of whatUseek - free when ad-sponsored, but pretty neat. It's not Google - but it allows a site-specific search.
And then, of course, there is Tekka the journal that puts the fun back in hyperfiction (and a few other places). Mark is putting up the backend as we speak. We'll be online in a few days. And then the work really starts ...
11:45 PM
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