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Author Archives: kunzelman
Walter Miller’s Alien Invader
It swam like an airborne jellyfish. A cluster of silver threads it seemed, tangled in a cloud of filaments–or a giant mass of dandelion fluff. It leaked out misty pseudopods, then drew them back as it pulled itself through the … Continue reading
Leopold Lambert on Architecture and Occupation
Occupation is a second way that architecture is used to serve military purposes. Of course one could think of the Roman Legion’s settlement and some other temporary military structures; nevertheless, it seems more interesting here to understand the word military … Continue reading
Posted in Quote Time, Theory
Tagged architecture, leopold lambert, quote, theory, weaponized architecture
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On The Max Payne Franchise
I’m in that weird interstitial period between semesters, and I have somehow managed to keep deadlines at bay enough to do something that I’ve wanted to do since last November: play all of the Max Payne games back-to-back-to-back. What follows is a … Continue reading
Frank Castle on Fighting
Fighting for the people who run the world gets you stabbed in the back. You fight the wars they start and feed. You kill the monsters they create. You die from handling depleted uranium while they get rich on oil. … Continue reading
On Red Dead Redemption
1. I’m not good at analyzing Rockstar games. I’m not good at breaking them down and showing all of the pieces, holding each one up to my eye, judging it good or bad, and then parsing it all into a … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged Grand theft auto IV, red dead redemption, rockstar games, video games
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Todd McFarlane’s 1992 Comics Journal Interview
The fairly infamous Gary Groth interview with Todd McFarlane is up at The Comics Journal and it is glorious. Groth pins McFarlane to the wall on taste, culture, and the fact that McFarlane was an amazing force of mediocrity in the … Continue reading
Posted in Comics
Tagged comics, gary groth, interview, the comics journal, todd mcfarlane
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Playing Through the No Interaction Mixtape
In light of all the game formalist whatever nonsense that has been flying around the video game internet recently, Line Hollis made another fabulous mixtape. It is called the No Interaction Mixtape, and I encourage you to go look at … Continue reading
Rasmussen on Architecture and History
Thus, in the Spanish Steps we can see a petrification of the dancing rhythm of a period of gallantry; it gives us an inkling of something that was, something our generation will never know. Rasmussen, Experiencing Architecture 136
