Wow. That's all I can say here. Not only is this some of the highest quality LARPing I've ever seen, but it's also phenomenally well-shot documentary footage. Really nicely put together to illustrate the seriouisness of this play. It's great. The juxtaposition of imagery is excellent, especially in the sample here (http://www.darkonthemovie.com/darkon_video.html) but there's another promotional video sample that is availalb here ( ) and you should definitely check those out.

And I think, (e:paul), that this documentary shows why our project is a somewhat different thng than "LARP" proper. I would like to think that we're going to alter it and mainstream it so that, in general, it is a bit more flexible to provide the user experience people deisre at a range of levels. The technology will certainly take away somewhat from the fantasy roleplay element, but for other stories I think it will be excellent. What I think is crucial is that we tap into that energy the interviewees here talk about, which is that visceral quality of doing something in a location with a group of people. Facilitating community play.

I think our system could be better for some stories, too. For example, role-playing a Shadowrun or generally Cyberpunk/SciFi LARP would be very difficult without some kind of technology integration. Our system could be ideal for that.

Some thoughts... I'm so excited...

From BoingBoing (http://www.boingboing.net), but I can't resist this image -- woot, li'l cowpokes!

The artists who created these covers probably never meant for them to to be used as spank fodder, but being the mean-spirited, immature, asshole that I am, I've decided to do the only thing that a grown adult would do: point out juvenile observations of unintentionally sexual acts on comic book covers.Quoted from: Unintentionally sexual comic book covers: Part 1.

I just heard about this site, Our Media (http://www.ourmedia.org/), which apparently is some kind of relation to the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org), which is one of my most favorite things in the world.

Anyway, Our Media seems real cool so far. I'm trying it out right now. here's my link (http://www.ourmedia.org/user/11582)

The StorTroopers are back, after like a few year hiatus. The site is cool for generating little avatar images and stuff, and I appreciate those kinds of applications. StorTroopers has high "net.ster" appeal and a historical meme quotient to trade on (talk about advertising, eh?). But it's so sadly cute. The girls can't even have glasses. It's OK for guys to have glasses but not girls? WTF? I for one much prefer glasses. I don't need to wear glasses, but I have a pair just in case I want to look real cool sometime. I love to wear my sunglasses. Glasses are awesome. Read David Shield's excellent piece, "Girsl With Glasses" if you don't believe me. s-e-X-X-y, yo.

Anyway, here are the avatars I generated of me and Sarah:

Missing Image ;(

Missing Image ;(

And here are some hipster images I did of us. Although I prefer my new coinage, net.ster for a net.hipster:

Missing Image ;(

Missing Image ;(

And, just for comparison, here's a graphic I did to illustrate my love for Sarah last Fall on the occasion of her October birthday (you know, Halloween):

Missing Image ;(

Missing Image ;(

A friend of mine pointed me to this link (http://www.ocma.net/index.html?page=upcoming#Yucef_Merhi:_Poetic_Engineering) about an upcoming exhibit at Orange County Museum of Art which happens to be at the same time as E3... Hmm, I wonder if we'll be able to make it out? I gotta find out more about this. Let me know if anyone knows more about Yucef Merhi, the ePoet featured in the exhibition.

I love the interdisciplinarity of electronic literature and poetry. It's so great to me that people on the Electronic Poetry Center website (http://epc.buffalo.edu) range from Eduardo Kaz and his holopoems (which lead to his awesome inter-species communications exhibits and other super-rad things) and jodi (http://www.jodi.org) to John Cayley and Talan Memmott, who are working out of such a Lit and fiction mode. And many of these folks bridge the gap between writing critical essays, performing readings, publishing online and exhibiting in galleries.