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Matt Webb's 100 Head Cattle Drive 2008

"PROBLEM: There is no way I can justify to myself spending that much money on plastic cows. Really, there is no way. WIN-WIN: I could however justify giving that same amount of money, or more, to a worthwhile charity. That would be an easy thing." Matt wants cows, in return for giving money to charity.

(tags: cows ungulates charity mattwebb nonsense goodcause )
LittleBigWorkshop.com

Oh wow; it's like a developer network for LittleBigPlanet. Smashing.

(tags: videogames sony mediamolecule littlebigplanet play development creativity social )
STREET WITH A VIEW: a project by Robin Hewlett & Ben Kinsley

"On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more…" Lovely.

(tags: streetview performance google art tableaux pittsburgh )
Gamasutra – Kotick: Vivendi Titles Dropped Due To Lack Of Sequel Potential

'"With respect to the franchises that don’t have the potential to be exploited every year across every platform, with clear sequel potential that can meet our objectives of, over time, becoming $100 million-plus franchises, that’s a strategy that has worked very well for us," Kotick said.' Kotick is very serious about his use of the word 'exploit'.

(tags: games business franchise activision blizzard activisionblizzard bobbykotick sequel awful )
Gamasutra – Kotick: Guitar Hero Song Creator Might Be Our 'Newest Subscription Opportunity'

""The ability to offer these songs on a subscription basis may very well result in the newest subscription opportunity in our portfolio," he said." Kotick wants you to pay Activision to subscribe to UGC. Oh dear.

(tags: bobbykotick activision guitarhero ugc subscription crazy insane )
OBAMA by *spacecoyote on deviantART

Beautiful.

(tags: obama okami pastiche illustration games lovely politics election )
Relevant History: Reflections on tinkering

"As we move into a world in which we can manufacture things as cheaply as we print them, the skills that tinkerers develop– not just their ability to play with stuff, or to use particular tools, but to share their ideas and improve on the ideas of others– will be huge." Lots of good reflections from "Tinkering As A Mode Of Knowledge".

(tags: tinkering hacking technology making opensource building craft prototyping learning education )
World of Goo Player Profiles

Visualising the heights of people's towers by importing their savegame. Lovely.

(tags: worldofgoo games statistics highscore visualisation )
howies® – Push the bees where they want to go

"By understanding the way bees respond to all the different aspects of the natural world, the beekeeper is able to recover his own relationship to the natural world through bees."

(tags: bees beekeeping nature systems world )
Dubious Quality: Guitar Hero Cow Tour

"Every time Bobby Kotick opens his mouth, I see a giant cow with "GUITAR HERO" branded on its side, and Bobby Kotick is squeezing two teats as fast as he can."

(tags: activision blizzard guitarhero cashcow quotation )

Lack of “Momentum”

07 November 2008

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