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Tank Man and the Toilet
Charlie Cole’s iconic image of a lone man standing in front of a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square, Beijing is one of recent history’s best known photographs. The plastic-bagged groceries in his hands lend a sense of the mundane, everyday ordinariness to a moment that was anything but. Banned in China, the image remains ...
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Decepticon Casting Reel #1: Chad
While I was away on holiday last week the first of three short animations I wrote the script for went live. Created to promote the forthcoming Paramount Pictures film Transformers 2, it features Chad the Videogame Controller auditioning for the role of a Decepticon. Animated by the super-talented Jim Howells from Littleloud (who was also ...
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Swords & Soldiers – Nintendo Wii Review
When Mario popped from 2D to 3D it was as if we had previously only seen him through a glass darkly, but now could see him in full. Sure, his pixel moustache was at last rendered in polygons, offering us a more vivid portrait of the plumber than we’d yet known. But far more than ...
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Famous or inFamous?
Earlier this week Tom Chick, editor of the Sci-Fi television channel’s videogame blog, Fidgit, was presented with something of a moral dilemma. Having posted his impressions of Sony’s exclusive PlayStation 3 title, inFamous, in two easy-to-digest posts, one outlining ten great things about the game and the other ten ‘poor’ features, Sony explained that his ...