Archive for the ‘KRAZY!’ Category

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

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

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.

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Catherine is employed and blogging about Art Spiegelman

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

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?

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