Virtual, real-time rendered acting is one of the most rapidly improving aspects of modern video games. For example, watch one of the trailers for the upcoming “Mafia II” game by 2k Czech:
Stunning.
As we (meaning the society as a whole) increase the overall level of capital accumulation, human resources like actors become more and more expensive, at […]
Cory Doctorow, a writer, a Boing-Boing contributor and one of the most interesting thinkers on copyright, copyleft and social aspects of intellectual property, explains why music streaming services will never become an effective substitute for downloading, ending up as a complementary service instead:
Everything that starts out as a cultural revolution ends up as capitalist routine.
In his 1983 essay, “Behind the Painted Smile” [I], Alan Moore, a prolific British writer known mostly for authoring highly acclaimed graphic novels like “V for Vendetta”, “Watchmen” and “From Hell”, gives a hint on what not to ask an artist (ad why):
After watching it for the second time I am now convinced that Stephen Gaghan’s “Syriana” (2005) is one of the best movies from the political fiction (?) genre ever made. Loosely based on CIA agent Robert Baer’s memoir (“See No Evil”) it tells parallel stories about merger of two oil companies, fierce fighting for rights […]