2009 gets retro but new
// June 11th, 2010 // messenger bags for kids
im absolutely fascinated with the work of Paul Robertson lately. animations in the style of oldish videogames – a sort of decade specific machinima. a work of genius. it’s funny to think that it has stronger resonances on a very specific generation with very particular tecnological habits. i wonder if this stament is true for most art deemed genius.
anyway, i cropped the image to the right from his piece Kings of Power 4 Billion % (awesome title) which is like brutal-excessive anime fermented in old arcade games and filtered through a discordian text for a very nice retrofuristic bouquet.
download it from his website for a nice resolution, it doesn’t play as well in youtube.
i found out about this through offworld which is a recent subdivision of the classic good old boingboing, it’s mostly about gaming and gaming-derivative arts. i wasn’t so into it initially but i must say i’ve found a couple of very exciting things there: like the marvelous game world of goo (you can download a very cool free demo) and the nascent music scene coming out of the korg DS-10 software for the nintendo ds.
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