Scott Campbell, an artist whose work you may recognize from games like Brutal Legend and Psychonauts, is having a gallery opening in NYC on Friday, November 13th. The show itself runs through December 13th.
The show is called “Adrift”, and it involves watercolors by Campbell and fellow artist Leontine Greenberg all focused around a central theme: floating things.
Both artists will be at the gallery opening on the 13th, so be sure to check it out!
This Thursday night we will be recording episode 25 of the New York Geekcast, all about the Jim Henson and the Muppets — from the early days of “Sam and Friends” to the forthcoming “The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made”.
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I just read this article in Vanity Fair about the recent rise of cute in American culture (think youtube sneezing pandas, I can has cheezburger, and domo kun selling you your morning cup of joe at 7-11.) It’s pretty interesting- it correlates the cute phenomenon with tough times… In theory 9-11, two wars, and the worst economy since the 1930’s has triggered our desire to stare at puppies and kittens.
The article cites Japan as the precedent: their cute-volution came after that whole messy WWII thing. It specifically refers to Astro Boy, who… like many other cute Japanese mascots, we’ve since bogarted for a big budget animated feature. Here’s an abridged version of the article.
If that weren’t enough to convince you of our cute-obsession, check out an excerpt from the congressional health care debates this weekend- Rep. Shadegg brought a baby to help sell his argument:
And on a brief side note, the Apple TV 3.0 update looks pretty ugly and introduces nothing that wasn’t new in iTunes 9. Maybe if the update had come out then it would have been exciting – but only maybe. Quite a disappointment that there’s no new feature unique to this device this time around.
The New York Geekcast is hosted by Nelson Diaz and David Pagano. These two self-proclaimed nerds (along with their friends) cover anything and everything dorky -- movies, music, comics, video games, television -- while bringing a unique New York sensibility to it all.
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