Nick Swardson - The Future of Video Games

Wish the actual video was there and that it had better audio, but the perspective is pretty funny. How crazy are we going to seem to our grandkids when we describe our hey-days to them? Even better: do you ever bring it up if you were a fan of, say, Tupac, Dr. Dre, Wu-Tang, 50 Cent, Ludacris, Missy Elliot, or the like? I remember hearing older generations talking about the "good ol' days". What the HELL are we gonna sound like?

Bus Fight to Black Betty

There was a fight on a bus. And someone shot it and uploaded it. It looked like this:




People watched it. They were entertained. They argued about it. Then they remixed it. Which brings us to this:

Move It!

This being video game week and all, it is only fitting to mention this here. The annual Game Developer's Conference is going on as we speak, er read, and Sony just announced it's new motion controller, the Playstation Move. Check it out in all it's glory in the links below.

http://kotaku.com/5490535/sonys-motion-controller-is-the-playstation-move

http://kotaku.com/5490554/first-look-at-the-delicious-playstation-move/gallery/

http://kotaku.com/5490574/how-the-playstation-move-is-not-a-wii-remote

Enjoy the read folks.

~JV

Jenkins Reading

The reading from Jenkins for this week, Games: The New Lively Art has some tricky linking issues from this blog. Try this link. If it doesn't work, type it in exactly like this, including the capital letters.

http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/GamesNewLively.html

Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins

For those of you writing your take home midterm, here’s a site I found useful and will be quoting throughout my paper.

Gaga in Wonderland

Personally, I’m not a big fan of Lady Gaga but this remix had me at “break dance fighting”.

Mario: Game Over (2007)

Serving as Nintendo’s mascot and the main protagonist of the series, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation in 1981. Let's look at what remix culture does to our precious nostalgia... :)

Here is a short movie created with some animation features, a good example for remix culture and early video games. Mario video games series are great nostalgia for many of us. The short movie above, "Mario: Game Over" was nominated for Best Comedy Video of 2007 in the Youtube Awards. It's quiet simple and doesn't have a happy ending, but they have a serious production team, and you need to see how many views they got on YouTube: 21,880,046 views

People watch these things! Really, they do! Me too...

I suggest you to visit their YouTube vlog, these guys really like to make animation short videos. Visit http://www.youtube.com/poykpac