Indie Game: The Movie at Sundance

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Winnipeg-based BlinkWorks Productions has just announced that their crowd-funded documentary Indie Game: The Movie about independent video game makers will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival. I didn’t pay much attention when I heard they were making this movie, since my own opinion on video games largely skews into the “waste of time” category. But, the documentary looks like it focuses on more universal themes of creativity, struggle, and drive in the lives of the creators of these video games. What drives them to do what they do? I’m looking forward to seeing it.

Winnipeggers can watch the outside-of-Sundance premiere on Feb 3, 2012.

Congratulations to Lisanne and James on the Sundance selection!

Such Great Heights

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When I first became a Christian, I attended Winnipeg’s own megachurch for some time. Although I now reject much of what that church taught me, many of the catchphrases I heard there continue to jangle about in my skull. Take the following pithy statement: I’d rather shoot for the starts and land on the moon … Read more →

The Beauty of a Second

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I love this montage of 60 one second clips run together. There’s vitality and beauty in even the smallest blink of an eye. Pay attention.

Apocalyptic Shopping With Pepper Spray

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It’s quite amazing that I haven’t made the obvious connection between Black Friday and my sporadic Signs of the Apocalypse before, but this year brings us signs of our impending doom: Black Friday turned into a black mark against American shoppers as riotous crowds brawled over video games, waffle irons and towels, drawing international condemnation … Read more →

Just Say You’re Welcome

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“Thanks.” “No problem.” You’ve probably heard this nonsensical conversation today at some point. It’s as if two separate exchanges have fused into a couplet of collective insanity. Those two exchanges: Exchange I “Thank you.” “You’re welcome.” Exchange II “Is this a problem?” “No problem.” Both of those exchanges makes sense on their own, but it … Read more →

[L]iberalism and fundamentalism form a “totality”: the opposition of liberalism and fundamentalism is structured so that liberalism itself generates its opposite. So what about the core values of liberalism: freedom, equality, fraternity? The paradox is that liberalism itself is not strong enough to save them against the fundamentalist onslaught.

Fundamentalism is a reaction – a false, mystifying, reaction, of course – against a real flaw of liberalism, and this is why it is again and again generated by liberalism. Left to itself, liberalism will slowly undermine itself – the only thing that can save its core is a renewed Left.

Slavoj Žižek - Only Communism can save liberal democracy