Photographer Robbie Cooper filmed kids playing video games and the resulting film footage is amazing, perplexing, and sometimes disturbing. Try it with the sound off for an eerily context-less effect.
There’s no video embed available, so click here to see the video Immersion at the New York Times »
Ahhh, but there is much more available on Robbie Cooper’s Immersion Blog, including this video by Godfrey Reggio titled Evidence.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: sausage may turn you vegetarian, but bacon will bring you back.
To get the latest for those who love bacon, check out Bacon Today. I love the t-shirt in the bottom right corner that says “Strip.”
My favorite part of this is the disco version of the Star Wars Theme!
I used to play capoeira back in the day, and it was cool to see it make it into Tekken 3, but that was about as far as you could expect it to go since capoeira never really leaves the circle. So, capoeira was fun, and people really do things that look like fights in the movies. But now … there’s Parkour. It kinda makes capoeira look, well, slow. I’ve only seen videos on YouTube, but these people do things that would make Jackie Chan think twice, no wires, no nets.
And now there’s a video game to capture the experience of parkour. I don’t mean that in the way a marketing guy means it; I mean that literally:
…Mirror’s Edge is the first game to hack your proprioception.
That’s a fancy word for your body’s sense of its own physicality — its “map” of itself. Proprioception is how you know where your various body parts are — and what they’re doing — even when you’re not looking at them. It’s why you can pass a baseball from one hand to another behind your back; it’s how you can climb stairs without looking down at your feet.