Tag Archives: tools

Fail and Prejudice: Using Inkscape as an alternative to Illustrator

Emina Sendijarevic | 31 October 2010, 4:34 pm | tags: , , ,

I was already familiar with Illustrator (CS3). However since it’s been a while ago, I thought I could use Inkscape without prejudice. Wrong. This is a quick illustration I made and as you can see it didn’t work out like I had in mind. The point was to make a head upside down, half filled with blood that was dripping…

What Real Time Strategy game must I play?

Kai Henriquez | 24 November 2009, 8:14 pm | tags: , , , , ,

So you like Real Time Strategy games and want to find new games previously unknown to you, but potentially worth playing?

Google Takes Command: Shaping the Web

Harro Heijboer | 14 October 2009, 4:29 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Even though the web doesn’t have a central point, sometimes Google, or search engines in general, seem to form the center of this universe. Bringing together all these different websites into one database, ready to be searched. Google’s software, the algorithm, seems to be a aggregator, carrying out contextual analysis and grouping similar websites together. But Google’s search results are…

Rivers of Reputation

Daphne Ben Shachar | 16 December 2007, 5:21 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , , , ,

This post will be about Lifestreaming, or Data Streams. “Lifestreaming, in essence, is a site dedicated to collecting and publishing online activity – all in one place. In its most basic definition, lifestreams are information aggregators that funnel RSS feeds to create a concentrated river, stream, or flow of life represented through content.”

Games as tools @ cinekid

Tjerk Timan | 18 October 2007, 4:31 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

The lecture was meant as an introduction to the workshop given by Mediamatic on games as tools, but also as an inspirational talk to all involved/ interested in film making and new media.
First to talk was Friedrich Kirschner (zeitbrand.net and moviesandbox.org), with an introduction to his framework of comparing game-play.

Football with the boys 2.0

Rikus Wegman | 16 October 2007, 6:29 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , ,

As a new media student I’m always interested in examples of how new media applications find their way in peoples everyday lives. My football team is a good example off a social event that formerly only took place in an offline environment but is more and more starting to use tools from an online environment to function.