Posts tagged The War On Story
“Our cameras are our weapons. They are the reason the revolution will succeed.’
New documentary film The Square centers on Cairo’s Tahrir Square and follows the ‘thorny path to democracy [that] only began with Hosni Mubarak’s fall.’ It also just won the Tim Hetherington Award at the Sheffield Doc/Fest.
… it’s important to bear in mind I’m being called a traitor by men like former Vice President Dick Cheney. This is a man who gave us the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
The second you get the controller something turns off in the heart.
George Lucas and Spielberg on storytelling in games: ‘it’s not going to be Shakespeare’
With titles like Quantum Break and the upcoming Halo series, the convergence of gaming and narrative storytelling has become an intense focal point — but the men behind Indiana Jones and Star Wars think gaming will never be able to provide the same type of rich experience traditional storytelling does.
(via thisistheverge)
Video: I Am Bradley Manning. Featuring an impressive list of actors, musicians & writers.
If you witnessed war crimes, what would you do? More coming soon…
http://iam.bradleymanning.org | #iambradleymanning
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There are two very clear indications of real science and real art: the first inner sign is that a scholar or an artist works not for profit, but for...
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