Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Monthly Archives: May 2007


I’m sitting here watching the extras on the 2-disc deluxe edition of Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, which are even better than I’d expected. The featurettes are really and truly fantastic; one is all about the mythology behind the films, one is about del Toro’s color and symbolism, and another is about the special effects […]

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Lately I’ve been thinking a great deal about game design, although in a different style than some of my game designer friends. I now have a number friends working in the games industry – Alec Austin, a friend of mine from C3, is going to be a game designer for Activision this fall; Chris Casiano […]

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I mentioned this briefly in my last post, and I was going to leave it at that, but then I carved up a particularly massive issue of GQ and realized that I still had something left to say. My relationship with magazines is a weird one. I subscribe to at least half a dozen different […]

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This weekend I availed myself of Dotster’s Memorial Day sale – half off all .com, .net and .org domains with the right code, and please don’t start in with the “Yeah, but so-and-so is always cheaper, blah blah” because I’ve used Dotster since like 2002 and am a faithful customer, so there – and now […]

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I know this feeling all too well – curse you, wikipedia! And weblogs! And newssites! And games! And, and, and… Yeah!

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CMS and the Media Lab win $5M for the Center for Future Civic Media. Daaaang. Knightshadow: my kind of Batman. I always thought the half-mask was dumb. Deerman was here! Creepy and hysterically funny. Haiku game for the DS. Am I the only one really excited about this? Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 coming this fall. […]

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My friends Ivan and Vicki and I watched the season finale of 24 on Monday night and we, like most of America, shared a moment of delightful commisseration with Peter MacNicol’s Tom Lennox: (Image by Ivan, of course.)

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Remember my friend Barry, the guy with the Toy Design Workshop I’ve been yammering about here? Yeah. He’s a freakin’ genius. He’s also the player in the wide-collar suit about halfway through that video. (Warning: big movie!) Any of you cats who wonder what life is like at MIT, it’s just like this.

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The origin of Spacewar. A little context for yesterday’s post. The Golden Compass trailer on Yahoo! Now that’s a Care Bear. Refurb TV: $249. Tempting, awfully tempting. Q&A with Bone colorist Steve Hamaker. Beautiful work… …and a beautiful office. I covet that huge scanner. The studio of Craig Thompson. Old-school. Hey, we have the same […]

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…You spend all evening recreating Spacewar! in Adobe Illustrator. My reasons for doing so will be revealed as soon as the paperwork is actually done.

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