Amazing Website!

This is one of the coolest websites on the internet today!

How to be a Retronaut features stunning photography and video from years past, even colour photography from the 1800s! Absolutely breath-taking stuff.

If you appreciate photography, film and history or even if you just like taking a trip back through time - this is the place to be!

http://www.howtobearetronaut.com

Here are a couple of my favourite examples:

A stunning colour silent film of 1920s London
http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2010/02/stunning-colour-film-of-1920s-london/

High resolution colour photos of 1940s London
http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2010/01/1940s-london-in-stunning-hi-res-colour/

Amazing historic WWII photos overlapped onto the same modern day locations.

http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2010/03/the-ghosts-of-amsterdam/

“Hey, did you know that I’m always going back in time…?
I am the backwards traveller, ancient wool unraveller”
- “Backwards Traveller”, Paul McCartney

Can Video Games Ever Be Art?

 Can Video Games Ever Be Art?  If you ask famed movie critic Roger Ebert, the answer is a resounding no. Why not? Let’s take a moment to critique the critic’s latest blog.

Ebert argues “No one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great poets, filmmakers, novelists and poets. To which I could have added painters, composers, and so on, but my point is clear.”

Link: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/video_games_can_never_be_art.html

While this statement maybe true, it does not support his original argument – and that it “video games will never be art”. Before we continue, perhaps we should define just what “art” is. Not an easy task by any means, but one we will try to accomplish.

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