live from nowhere
OK - I'm stuck, stranded in Washington DC - our nation's fair capitol. (thanks United!) I guess at least they put me in a hotel, instead of letting me sleep on the floor of the airport.
Another thing I'm grateful for, is Hilton Hotel's free internet access. So, as I sit here and think about how I'm going to get from DC back to NY - I've at least got something interesting to look at for free. 'F TV' lately is how I feel about it. So for my 'news' I'm sticking to Net News Wire, and my own favorite RSS feeds.
I think that there might be something subversive about subscribing to 'news that you want to read' only... so I sometimes try to take in news from sources I don't trust/like... but I find that online, my patience for that runs thin. So, for now I just like watching news that I 'trust' ... and by trust, I guess I mean, that have written articles that I have found interesting in the past.
So from bOING bOING I found a fantastic little bizarre 'TV talk show' that takes place inside of a video game. Inside you ask... indeed - sometimes in the middle of the interviews - 'noobs' jump in and try to shoot the guests and hosts. It's a little strange to wrap your head around - I think it's the contrast of the dialogue and the video game footage that I find so interesting... machinima they seem to be calling it.
Re-working video games into 'movies' and 'tv shows' --- pretty high-brow talking for a strange looking, and what I think will inevitably be a short-lived art form. The first few episodes are fun to watch from a 'what in the world' point of view... but I can't imagine tuning in for a weekly show. Perhaps I'm showing my age, and general callousness.
I'm kind of torn about it right now. I think that because I'm not a fan of this Xbox game, I kind of got tired of the visuals after a while. And perhaps what I liked most were some of the guest's opinions about new media rather than the 'frag-fest' that seemed to go on while they were discussing how a story could evolve to inhabit a 3 dimensional world.
I suppose for some people, these video games are a world... I cannot agree with this though. RIght now, it simply seems like a way to waste time, blow off steam, and spend some cash. I'm not ready to call this the 'world of the future.'
I still recommend watching a few of the episodes of This Spartan Life just so that you can see what I mean.