Merit Coba

Henry and Kristl were In a lonely place (1950)

“Dixon Steele is a violent man,” Kristl said while she took a sip from her Rooibos tea. “Yeah,” Henry nodded slowly. He was drinking hot coffee in a cup filled to the brim . He had made Kristl a tea as at the moment she had sworn off coffee. Just like she had sworn…

Merit Coba

03/08/2014

review

black and white movie, drama, Gloria Grahame, henry and kristl, Humphrey Bogart, In a lonely place, movie, movie review, review, thriller

State of Decay ten tips for playing the DLC Lifeline.

Some time ago the game State of Decay got a new addon called Lifeline and it has a few changes that are surprising interesting given that this is only a small addon. One of the changes even carries back into the game and the first addon Breakdown DLC and is certainly an improvement on playing the game.…

Merit Coba

02/08/2014

videogame

addon, dlc, game, lifeline, playing, State of Decay, ten tips, videogame

Henry and Kristl investigated The Caine mutiny (1954)

“Humor me?” Kristl said. “A six pack of Bogey,” Henry’s barked a laugh, “Isn’t that a bit too much of one thing?” “I thought it might be educational. Bogart is still quite famous, so I was wondering what substance is there to the icon.” “True, he is famous. Like Marilyn Monroe or.. Betty Boop.” “Betty…

Merit Coba

01/08/2014

movie, review, stories

drama, henry and kristl, humprey bogart. war, movie, movie review, mutiny, the caine mutiny

Two nekos : MH17

Merit Coba

30/07/2014

Two Nekos

2014, airplane crash, australia, crash, donetsk, MH17, netherlands, remembrance, russia, seperatists, two nekos, ukraine, warfare

The devil’s fork

The devil’s fork is a small wasteland place in Second Life. Just an experiment with pictures. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Midnight%20Island/127/124/25

Merit Coba

23/07/2014

Traces of a Second Life

one page pictures, places in second life, second life, sl, the devil’s fork

Two nekos : Credits for other people’s merits : The Garden of Abandoned Stories by Talullah Winterwolf

” A mysterious overgrown & abandoned garden, filled with weeds, rust, reverie and birdsong Come explore where forgotten stories have come to life…” – Talullah Winterwolf. IT took me a while to get around to this post because I understand that Talullah Winterwolf is pretty well known in some art circles.. It is not that I am…

Merit Coba

22/07/2014

Art, SL11B, Traces of a Second Life

abandoned stories, art, grungy, SL11B, talullah winterwolf

SL11B: Monkey Mind: a movie.

A movie about the Emphatic Eccentrica build as the Eleventh birthday of second life. The EE team consisted of Almut Brunswick, Ohmy Shalala, Veleda Lorakeet, Laughton McCry, Merit Coba and Tau.

Merit Coba

21/07/2014

Art, Empathic Eccentricia, SL11B, Traces of a Second Life

almut bruswick, art, EE, Emphatic Eccentricia, installation, laughton mccry, machinima, merit coba, monkey mind, ohmy shalala, second life, sl, Taubchen Sonnenkern, veleda lorakeet

Relay for life: raising funds worldwide for the fight against cancer..

“Join thousands of Second Life Residents from all across the real globe as they rally today and Sunday for the 10th Relay Weekend of Relay For Life of Second Life.” (Text from the Relay For Life of Second Life website) When I logged on to Second Life today my viewer told me that perhaps the biggest annual…

Merit Coba

20/07/2014

stories of the real

ACS, American cancer society, cancer, charity, fundraising, Relay for life, second life, sl

I didn’t know you..

This is yet another one of my uhm.. conceptual art kind of mix of language and visuals. Is it a poem? Or is it conceptual art. I don’t know really. I was not satisfied with type fonts I had on my computer.. so after some consideration I decided to make my own instead of trying…

Merit Coba

20/07/2014

stories

art, conceptual art?, poem, visual poem

A game: The cat lady

Starting a post by writing that I like a game counts probably as a spoiler and it certainly would be -I think- if this post was meant as a game review, but this isn’t mean as such. The reason I write about the game the cat lady is because it is one of those small…

Merit Coba

18/07/2014

review, videogame

game, graphic story, indie game, interactive story, pc, storytelling, telling, the cat lady, videogame