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indiestatik | Sneak Your Way Through A Dadaist Dystopia In Tangiers

I love the environnements and the atmosphere so far.

A surrealist stealth game - inspired by Thief, exploring a dark, delirious world.
A dissonant world inspired by 20th Century avant-garde; from Man Ray to Throbbing Gristle, William Burroughs to J.G. Ballard.

A blend of stealth and exploration - A game of discovery, atmosphere and vulnerability.
Tanigers takes the tense, non-linear gameplay created by the Thief games and drops it into an abstract world built upon confrontational, 20th Century experimental art.


Keep to the shadows, stay unseen. Plan your infiltration, setting traps, climbing the rooftops, backstabbing or - with perfect timing - without leaving a trace.
Hold back, listening in on strangers. Collect their discarded conversations, hurling worlds down the street to distract your enemies, to give you a split second to slip past. 

Explore a vast, open-ended landscape, uncovering and breaking the secrets of lost civilizations. 
Approach everything in the order, and manner that you choose - but take care; carelessness has it’s consequences.

The game reacts to your actions - play disruptively and the world fractures, deforms - hallucinogenic, a unique structure in response to your gameplay choices. Or play through silently, a ghost through the world, leaving no indication of your presence after completing your objectives.

The setting, interactions, narrative and appearance are a culmination of numerous influences - The Swiss and Berlin DADA movements, the theatrical theory of Antonin Artaud… the grotesque and cut-up narrative of Burroughs, the urban, social dystopic of Ballard… and to the soundscapes of Oophoi and Lustmord, the performance art influenced music of Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire… amongst others and their peers.

 

 

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Holly G. lit les Cahiers de Cioran

The 12 hours of yesterday’s webcast.

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Unbelievable but true! Baudrillard recites his poetry backed up by an all star band featuring Tom Watson, Mike Kelley, George Hurley, Lynn Johnston, Dave Muller and Amy Stoll, special guest vocalist Allucquère Rosanne Stone. Recorded live as part of the Chance Festival at Whiskey Pete’s Casino in Stateline Nevada, 1996. You’ve never heard Baudrillard like this before! Music to read Nietzsche to.

graphic novel / online edition by somefield / Barnaby Ward

XQMode - live syntax and error checker for Processing.

The Eyes of the Cat - but does it float 

by Moebius (Jean Giraud)

notational:

What happens when computers are cheaper than LEGO blocks? — GigaOM

smarterplanet:

Thanks to Arduino kits and the Raspberry Pi Linux computer, computing now can cost less than LEGOs. So today’s kids — and a generation of enthusiast hackers — are creating a movement that might incubate the next Woz. What will cheap computing build?

The cost of a Raspberry Pi computer you can buy today is $25. It has a 700 MHz CPU with 256 MB RAM.

 In 2001, the Power Mac G4 Cube, with 450 MHz CPU with 64 MB RAM, cost $1,799. That is how much hardware prices have fallen. Meanwhile, a LEGO X-Wing costs $59.99.

So for $25 anyone can work on a project that uses computers at its heart, and if something breaks, they can just go buy a new one. This makes small Linux computers like the Raspberry Pi and Arduino boards the hardware DIYers’ new LEGO bricks. 

Last month, tens of thousands of makers from around the world came together at Maker Faire. Kids were begging their parents to help them build RC planes, buy them kits with Arduino boards and learning how to solder.

Will the DIY movement produce the next Apple?

Many of the kits these kids were using weren’t made by billion dollar corporations – they were made by cottage industry electronics businesses, hobbyists, and “fantrepreneurs.” Yes, as Chris Anderson says in his new book “Makers”, we are at the start of a hardware revolution – led from the ground up, in your home.

Recently Jay Goldberg wrote, that “hardware is dead” – arguing that the drop in hardware prices is killing margins for the large producers to the point where is impossible to make revenue off commodity technology. It is true – prices are falling quicker than the large companies can innovate. However that price drop has opened an entirely new marketplace for smaller companies to emerge. Hardware isn’t dead – it’s moving back into garages where it started.