Tag Archives: Inspiration

What is interactivity?

What I found to be the most profound in this week’s readings for Interactive Writing in the VM-606 class at Emerson College was the debate on what defines “interactivity” in Chapter 6 of Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals. Before I dive into my debate on why I was so interested in the many definitions […]

Mechanical Reproduction: How the Machine Has Affected Image, a response to Walter Benjamin and John Berger

Considering John Berger bases some of his philosophy of image in “Ways of Seeing” on Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” essay, I want to take a closer look at how the two differ and how they intertwine in thought. In particular, I would like to look at Benjamin’s […]

Entertai(n)eur

Internally, I’ve struggled in recent years to define myself to people when asked the question: “What do you do?” A question that is almost always followed by: “Well, what’s the dream? What’s the goal?” This past week I was asked those questions many times and for the first time in my life I felt completely […]