Tag: review
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How Videogames Solve Art’s Oldest Problem
Read more: How Videogames Solve Art’s Oldest ProblemGame of Goose, by José Guadalupe Posada The videogame is a young artform. It’s roughly 500,000 years younger than architecture; 72,936 years younger than art; and 4,061 years younger than literature. An odd road it’s been from the Kalambo River wood structure, Leang Karampuang cave painting, and Epic of Gilgamesh to Steve Russel’s Spacewar! Despite…
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All the People in the World
Read more: All the People in the WorldDuring the time of coming back home for the holidays, a lot of us had to catch flights to return to our home countries. Interestingly enough, an Airbus plane has the regular capacity to transport 525 seated passengers. I, personally, have never travelled on an empty plane, and it makes sense, since flights only have…
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The Last of Us – Love and Humanity in a Post-Apocalyptic World
Read more: The Last of Us – Love and Humanity in a Post-Apocalyptic World(Source: HBO) Warning: This article contains major spoilers for the events of The Last of Us. The HBO show The Last of Us has been taking the internet by storm, and I admit I’m definitely one of the enjoyers. After being hesitant to watch it because of my inability to enjoy horror and general distaste…
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John Wick, Our 21st Century Sisyphus
Read more: John Wick, Our 21st Century SisyphusLego toy, by Nik (Includes spoilers for the John Wick-franchise) “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” -Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus The rule of action-movies is that immediate incentive trumps general motivation. When action star number 63 flails towards his goal in…
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The beauty of Arcane
Read more: The beauty of ArcaneNetflix: S1 Ep7 (Delord & Charrue, 2021) Spoiler warning: This article contains spoilers of the serie Arcane. When I tell people that I don’t watch films or series for their plot, they look at me weirdly. For a lot of my friends, the plot is the most important aspect of a story: it’s the unexpected…
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