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@Tuco It's funny because I read the wikipedia entry on Kandinsky yesterday and he had this mystic notion of the avant-garde artist as a prophet. He visualizes it as the artist being able to feel the tip of inverted pyramids that expend in the future. In less poetic terms, the idea is that the...

In that specific case Schumacher was not doing any kind of daredevil extreme skying stunt. By all account he has a strong competitive fiber, but is not an adrenaline junkie. The guy just had a shitty accident doing the same routine thing than thousands of skiers do every week-end.

You put me on the spot here, but I guess I got what I deserved! As a foreword, I'll say that I chose this video because I found Arese's really stunning especially when you consider the complexity of the music he turns into visuals, but I am not a huge fan such extremely aggressive 'noise'...

If by 'easy' you mean deep down a portion of the game infested my skeletons that respawn if not killed by a holy weapon (when you did not kill their handler) that you will reach maybe a dozen hours into a first play through. I suspect that even with a full guide it's almost impossible for a...

I would say a key element is historical relevance. Maybe I can make something that looks like a painting Pollock would have made, but I am just imitating him 60 years later, while he refined a technique and made it his own and produced his works in a specific context. He was part of an...

There are three parts in your post, let me address all three. 1) The gamut in abstract art is about as large as the gamut in music (and I'll pretend you were not dissing Steve Reich). For every hyper 'noisy' Jackson Pollock painting, there is an intense monochrome by Yves Klein or the...

I have not checked the documentary (yet), but I hope the author - a Cambridge PhD in Philosophy specialist of aesthetics - had nothing to do with the abstract/description on Vimeo because even with my minor art history knowledge I can see the factual errors in it (most notably discarding the...

I personally used a very basic and low skill build in Dark Souls: I played a Cleric and made sure to build up Endurance (for stamina and equipment load - always good to stay under 50% for mobility) and tried to find early a shield with 100% physical and decent stability without being too heavy...

There are several problems with your statement. First, it is based on the idea the quality of an artwork is proportional to the difficulty of its craftsmanship. This notion died almost a century ago. But even if you think this notion should not have died, you picked a bad comparison and a bad...

Great ending for what will remain a great show. More: an important show. The writing really is phenomenal, because it manages to give an extreme feeling of reality to the fiction by shedding or hiding most of the usual devices (to the point you almost forget it is a fiction - see below for an...

The article you linked is very interesting but you misrepresented its content. A summary would rather be something like: The CIA overtly and then covertly inflated the visibility of a number of american artists (among which were abstract expressionists) that they feel were representative of the...

We played a game ofRex: Final Days of an Empirethe other day, which is a re-skinning in the Twilight Imperium universe of the classicDuneboard game. The meat of the game is different factions trying to control a number of key zones on a map through movement and combat. Nothing very special here...

Kotaku reader's GOTY (NB: N?2 was probably an honest submission, but pranksters jumped on it - it's an erotic visual novel, so, even if it is very good, it's unlikely enough Kotaku reader played it to make it rank so high):

Kotaku reader's GOTY (NB: N?2 was probably an honest submission, but prankster jumped on it - it's an erotic visual novel, so, even if it is very good, it's unlikely enough Kotaku reader played it to make it rank so high): EDIT: Wrong thread... so I put the big image in spoilers...

It's the devil's advocate's day for me as I don't care much about abstract painting and I am ready to recognize there is an important social component to the success of some artists BUT, as an exercise of the mind, consider this: Probably all of you enjoy some music that has no lyrics. So you...

This thread would be better with pictures of the works of Araysar's friend.

What I remember of that thread was Astro saying mass destruction was out of place in a Superman movie. That's three occurrences of spectacular destruction in movies, but in The Avenger the perception was it was a cherry on top of a movie that had other qualities, in Superman it was attacked...

Kotaku's GOTY isThe Last of Us. Details bellow. They obviously like GTAV more than the people at Giant Bomb! EDIT: FORBIN!!!

To be fair, they are not bitching about the presence of spectacular elements, they are bitching about the fact that these spectacular elements are enough for some people to enjoy Gravity. I'll not defend Superman, but The Avengers also had effective comedy elements and very clever writing...

Having playedGone Homeyesterday, I would say that it is a very good idea for a game and an original subject matter, but I have not been overly impressed by the execution of this idea. At its core, it's a very basic first person adventure game (which surprised me as for some reason people...

Considering the price of the subscription vs the price of the games he wants to tag for download, he is losing time but saving a lot of money.

The opposite can be argued: there are a lot more movies with good plots than there are with amazing direction and stunning visuals. Also, if the plot and dialogues of Gravity are indeed sub-par, the tension is amazing. There are long stretches of the movie where you just can't breath or blink.

I landed on The Carpet Makers browsing the winners list of a major french price for speculative fiction (Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire). I enjoyed it greatly so mentioned it to my pnp rpg group (which doubles as a speculative fiction reading club). Verdict: one already read it and loved it, another...

This is not a problem with 3D per se, but, as the polarizing filter will remove some of the luminosity, it's important to have a good screen (on the gives back the biggest possible portion of the light it receives) and a powerful projector (as in brighter than a regular projector). Not all...

Clearly that's what Simas meant. Clearly!

My bet is LARPer in steampunk or post-apocalyptic settings.

Some books and a lot of different kinds of food items. Some good surprises in both departments!

Because it is a good pretext for poor AI and poor path finding.

The very few 2013 games I played this year were all indies or short games. The highlights wereKentucky Road Zero's film making genius and narrative explorations (even if I can't say I really like the game),Proteus' organic and musical minimalism (even if it challenges the limit of what we call...

I don't want to know more.

NES can be argued, but no amount of filtering got even close to the grace of a SNES with an RGB cable on a SD CRT screen. As for the disappearance of physical media... what's the market share of audio cd?

Without going too far into spoiler territory, let's say that the book shows that not all german officers share the hopes and views of the guest and not all the french people have the stoic attitude of his hosts.

For those not familiar with the Regency era, some horses could be rented by the hour and thus were called hourses.

A small and old book caught my eye on my mother's bookshelf: it was a 1945 edition ofThe Silence of the Seaby Vercors, a short story written in 1942 about a french-loving Nazi officer trying over six months to break the ice with the french people that are forced to share their roof with him. A...

Constantly ejecting could be a mechanical problem caused by discs being force-fed to the console instead of gently swallowed. Could also be the disks are dirty because they are handled with dirty hands. Could be the drive has been killed because Ramar put stickers on his disks. Who knows...

This episode left me wondering... what is this show? It's almost a chronicle. I can't think of anything much like it.

If it happened several times over different consoles, it seem to me there are two theories: very bad luck OR user related problem.

I am pretty sure the best co-op experience you can have with a non gamer is playing Uncharted 2 while the non gamer watches.

I have no hope of ever playing through all the games I own. It's down to three factors. The first is that it's not a library, it's an archive, so there is a number of games I bought for reasons other than wanting to play them (NB: It's composed only of physical console games). Inside this...

Seeing a screener of Gravity does not count as seeing Gravity.