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Blogathon 2009: A Confession

Last year, I was work­ing as a web devel­oper for the Mas­ters of Dig­i­tal Media pro­gram at the Great North­ern Way Cam­pus here in Vancouver.

Hav­ing left, I want to apol­o­gize for some­thing I did while I was there.

MDM stu­dents, remem­ber how I told a bunch of you that I had a key that led into the base­ment of the Cen­tre for Dig­i­tal Media, a con­verted Finning Trac­tor fac­tory? And how I told you stu­dents weren’t allowed in there? And remem­ber how a bunch of you really, really wanted to go? And tried to talk me into it?

1. Heavy min­ing equip­ment and base­ments don’t mix.
2. Nei­ther does land­fill 6 feet above see level.

I’m just say­ing.

EA/Maxis releases nerdy Spore prototypes; Catherine overcome with excitement

A few weeks back, I had the oppor­tu­nity to hear Sim­C­ity cre­ator Will Wright speak as part of my employer’s con­tri­bu­tion to the Van­cou­ver Art Gallery’s KRAZY! exhibit. Later, I wrote on the Mas­ters of Dig­i­tal Media group blog about my fas­ci­na­tion with Wright’s visual aids, a vari­ety of cel­lu­lar automata and grav­ity sim­u­la­tions, pro­to­types for dif­fer­ent kinds of inter­ac­tions in EA/Maxis’ upcom­ing “every­thing sim­u­la­tor” Spore.

Yes­ter­day, Slash­dot noted that EA had released a cou­ple of the pro­grams Wright demoed as free down­loads and appar­ently, more are on the way. So that’s pretty awesome.

Down­load BIOME and Par­ti­cle­Man from Spore.com.

Catherine is employed and blogging about Art Spiegelman

So I’m blog­ging for my employ­ers, the Mas­ters of Dig­i­tal Media Pro­gram. I scored tick­ets for the Van­cou­ver Art Gallery/Cen­tre for Dig­i­tal Media (that’s us!) joint speak­ers series, KRAZY! Talk Indus­try Giants, held in con­junc­tion with the KRAZY! comics + video games + anime + other stuff exhi­bi­tion at VAG, and so, I’ve been blog­ging my thoughts about each lecture.

By agree­ment with my boss, these posts will not con­sist of a giant sar­cas­tic rant about the use of excla­ma­tion marks in names of proper nouns, how to end a sen­tence with ‘KRAZY!’, nor the thir­teen dif­fer­ent fonts Tick­et­mas­ter used on the tick­ets to the events. This last one in par­tic­u­lar will be tough. One of them is Comic Sans.

The first post –fea­tur­ing my thoughts on what a gen­er­ally all-around swell guy Art Spiegel­man is– went up a few days ago. Com­ing up, Tim John­son, M/M Paris and Will Wright.

Do check it out, won’t you?