The American Dreamer – Documentary (1971)
Doc about actor/director Dennis Hopper shot during the editing of “The Last Movie.”
Two Documentaries Introduce Delia Derbyshire, the Pioneer in Electronic Music Open Culture
With her buttoned-up style, work with the UN, and name like a plucky character in a certain English wizard series, Delia Derbyshire may not seem a likely pioneer of experimental electronic music.
The hypnotic illustrations of Visoth Kakvei
Artist Visoth Kakvei makes these intricately patterned illustrations and posts them to his Instagram account. Lately, he’s been playing with faux 3D illusions and augmented reality, which pairs really well with his illustration style.
8-bit geometric watercolor paintings: Star Wars, rap stars, icons and classics
Adam writes, “I’m an artist working in Beacon, New York. I make 8-bit inspired geometric paintings based on iconic images and I’d like to share a new series of paintings with you.” These are pretty danged cool, and they’re available as giclees in sizes from 6×6 to 32×40.
If You Die In This Game, You Can Never Play Again. Ever.
Some games have permadeath, where death causes you to lose a character forever. Upsilon Circuit, however, has perma-permadeath. If you lose, you can never play the game again. The fantasy RPG plops specially selected players onto a single server and divides them into two teams of four.
What Remains of Edith Finch
What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state.
As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she’s the last one in her family left alive. Each story you find lets you experience the life of a new family member on the day of their death, with stories ranging from the distant past to the present day.
The gameplay and tone of the stories are as varied as the Finches themselves. The only constants are that each is played from a first-person perspective and that each story ends with that family member’s death.
For Amusement Only: the life and death of the American arcade
If you’ve never been inside a “real” arcade, it could be hard to distinguish one from say, oh, a Dave & Buster’s. Authenticity is a hard nut to crack, but there are a few hallmarks of the video game arcade of days gone by: first, they have video games.