I just wrote this up and posted it to the group of students and professors I will be working with on video games research. It’s been weighing on me for a couple of days, as I started to explain this the other day at our meeting and ended up feeling royally misunderstood. Feels like the weight has been lifted now; I think I said what I needed to. The article I reference below feels to me like the best crystallization of the ideas I went to grad school to work with. Thought I’d throw this out there for commentary from the broader community (I am trying to enable
Posted 26 September 2004
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I just pried myself away from the Matrix and the Animatrix on TV. Watching the Animatrix, I just couldn’t believe how realistic computer animation has become. I always think back to Tuber’s Two-Step, one of those little animation-festival pieces, from the days before Pixar, with colored polygons bouncing weightlessly around the screen.
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So I’m writing this article for Bitch about the musical Free To Be You And Me, and having a blast getting in touch with my old Poly classmates.
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In high school I was briefly obsessed with The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, as I imagine many artsy types were. At the time my excitement about the poem had much to do with Eliot’s reputation and my ability to grok his stuff, but it was the sound and imagery of the poem that set my love of the poem in motion. My head was filled with its louder music — shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers and walk upon the beach — to the extent that the sense of the quieter phrases (how should I presume? That is not it, at all.) were drowned out.
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I got in touch with a favorite former English teacher for work today, a man who’s gone from my high school to be high school director at a school in Connecticut. After finding out I’m in TC’s communications department he brought up instant messaging (see blockquote below). I responded with a screed which I thought I’d post here, because my mom keeps asking to hear about how we, as members of the computer generation, think. More solid observations have been written by Dana and by other up-and-comers, and I’m happy to post links to those if they’re available.
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