Mood Pieces: The Beautiful Storytelling of Bastion
On this installment of Mood Pieces I’ll take a look at Bastion, an very atmospheric action RPG by Supergiant Games that’s available in Xbox Live Arcade, as a downloadable game for Windows in various stores, and for Google Chrome as a browser game(!).
The Problem With Piracy Is Ignorance – Or Artists: Stop Whining And Tell The People How You Make Money
What has pissed me off royally lately is the amount of ignorance and “knowledge” in every damn discussion about piracy lately – and on both sides of the fence. I have made my living mostly from copyright fees and in TV and media for about a decade. In spite of that I’ve been very very critical about the current copyright systems, the mostly inefficient fight against piracy with block lists and ruining school kids’ lives with multimillion euro fines, and generally how outfits like MPAA, RIAA and their local counterparts function. Internet has been a game changer and the media industry dropped the ball in a pretty epic way.
High & Low Art: Gallen-Kallela, Russian Avant-Garde And The New Sherlock Holmes Film
Last Saturday was a nice day for culture. Susi and I went to see an exhibition of Russian avant-garde from around 1900, an Akseli Gallen-Kallela exhibition that was upstairs, and then just to balance things out, to suffer through the new Sherlock Holmes film.