Autodesk Animator: This was my favorite use of my computer as a child. Unfortunately I never did anything that amazing, and anything I did do is now lost in the hull of a Packerd Bell 486 that I’m sure is long gone. I never did anything too impressive, my favorite thing to do was get […]
I attended THATCamp NYC this weekend, and it was a great time, and I met some cool people, and really got to know some classmates. The organizers did a great job, served some really great food, and beyond just being gracious they made sure everyone knew where to go, and when. It was really inspiring […]
The Preserving Virtual Worlds Final Report from The Graduate School of Library & Information Science @ Urbana-Champaign (Aug 31, 2010) Preserving Virtual Worlds is nothing new, and I initially found my way to this project through The CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide. This robust report is a must-read. It isn’t just packed with information, it […]
I’m currently reading Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Planned Obsolescence and in the introduction she makes the point that digital forms of writing could be more prone to obsolescence than print: Consider, for instance, the obsolescence one encounters in attempting to read classic hypertext fiction such as Michael Joyce’s Afternoon on a Mac these days: Apple fully retired […]
The First Person Shooter or FPS for short is one of the most interesting genres of video games in my opinion. Not so much because of all the button mashing in hopes of killing demons, pedestrians, wizards or anybody else that gets in the way of the phallic device portraying the constant in-game avatar, but […]
This site is an attempt to explore narratives in the digital space and to highlight such explorations as they are recorded around the web. My name is Anderson Evans, I’m a grad student at CUNY Graduate Center (in Liberal Studies with a concentration on Digital Humanities). My initial intentions for this blog involve considerations […]
