Category: stories
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Between real and depiction of real : Coca Cola, identity and avatars
“Dick’s stories typically focus on the fragile nature of what is “real” and the construction of personal identity.” (Wikipedia: Philip K. Dick) A few week ago I borrowed some books from the public library. It has been a long while that I visited a library, but of late I found that I sleep better…
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C’est une… eh
A conceptual answer to the painting “the treachery of images” by Rene Magritte. What makes a pipe?
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Henry and Kristl observed Last Man Standing
“One thing is for sure.. they’re all better of dead..” Kristl repeated the lines. Kristl and Henry were having a cup of tea in their garage-turned-movie-theater while the movie credits rolled past. They had replayed that last part of the movie because they both liked the movie. “Yes?” Henry said, looking at Kristl trying to…
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Empathic Eccentricia: Outsider
My eldest daughter saw this picture and she connected the dots in her own way. The images force you into think into a certain pattern. So what is the story? Which reminds me that my one of my next post should be about the game Dixit.
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Red Flag
Red Flag is a movie based on an art installation called ‘threatened’ made by Asmita Duranjaya in Second Life. I do not like to explain too much about it as i like people to make up their own stories.. to let their mind go and thing.. what is going on? For me the movie…
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The walking dead videogame: interactive storytelling.
(This movie shows three key scenes.. if you do not like spoilers you should not watch after the first scene has ended. There is a red walking dead sign dividing the first and second scene.) I was fortunate that I did not buy the video-game the walking dead. I was somewhat suspicious about it actually…
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A state of mind 2: who needs the government anyway?
In the previous installment of a state of mind we ended we the guys we see above. We see them hunting down the zombies in the Night of the Living Dead. So how about the government? What are they doing? Of course anyone who tells a story of a nation like the United State being…
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A state of mind 1: show time
Zombie stories have been crawling out of the woodwork with impunity this last decade or so(yeah, I know cheap line). The appearance of the Walking Dead series shows that the zombie apocalypse has even intruded into the mainstream mindset. I do not know what makes zombies so popular nowadays and your guess is a good as…
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