Today on Offworld

Today on Offworld we discovered that the post-apocalyptic Wasteland in Bethesda's RPG Fallout 3 was about to get a little bit wider, got a glimpse of what a Criterion Collection for games might look like (props for the analogy, N'Gai!), and learned that -- happily -- the world's Guitar Heroes are picking up real guitars as well.

We also looked at a photojournalist's project that shows us what it looks like when we're immersed in our virtual worlds, read about the people who got rich off those worlds, and listened to me live on national radio trying to explain the importance of those worlds.

[#1 posted by Xeni Jardin , November 25, 2008 5:03 PM]

I love those "immersion" photographs.

[#2 posted by Andrew Ferguson , November 25, 2008 5:34 PM]

I'd love the immersion photographs a lot more if I didn't strongly feel like he just swiped the idea from Phillip Toledano:

http://mrtoledano.com/frame_videogamers.php

[#3 posted by zeepoli , November 25, 2008 8:21 PM]

yeah - totally taken from philip toledano...
personally i like philip's better.

also - have you seen this?

http://jsong.org/would_rather_1.html

video of people thinking - then answers...

[#4 posted by illichian , November 25, 2008 8:50 PM]

As I pointed out in the comments of the Offworld post itself, it can't be said that Robbie Cooper stole this idea from Philip Toledano unless it is also said that Philip Toledano stole it from Godfrey Reggio. Reggio made a film in 1995 that is pretty much the exact same thing as Cooper's, only in response to a different medium (television itself; as distinguished from video games which presumably are being played on a television.)

See for yourselves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuI_nCADnW0

[#5 posted by Anonymous , December 25, 2008 5:02 PM]

i would argue that there's a larger gap between my work, and godfrey reggio, than robbie cooper's work and mine...i don't think that using the RED camera constitutes much of an expansion of the idea...

phil toledano