Flying an Anvil
Anvils are heavy tools usually made of iron or steel. Heavy metal in literal sense. Today, we rarely see them or hear their percussive sound in our cities and t...
Category: comedy
Exploring Polyphony: The Multiple Voices of the Motet
When music combines multiple human voices, melodies, and rhythms, it can gain a powerful expressiveness that is complex, rich, and misterious. Contemporary West...
Indie Game Community Gatherings and the Renaissance of Multiplayer Videogames
Humanoid worm-monsters that change size while wrestling for the possession of a ball in a sort of Greco-Roman arena; angry jelly babies with puffy buddies that ...
Fire on the Blue Genie Danger Derby Track
The third Blue Genie annual Danger Derby was fantabulous. Eighty pinewood cars with no-rules customized designs competed for the precious derby trophy and survi...
Dancing Fandango : A Conversation with Tim Schafer
Dancing and playing are sister practices. When we dance or when we play we move, interact, focus, and get engaged in feedback loops that allow us to laugh, sync...
Marimonda Racer Classifies to the Second Phase of the Danger Derby 2013
Directly from the world of Caribbean delusion and after surviving the Guri-Guri Hurricane, the Marimonda pilot made it to Austin, TX, in time for the annual Dan...
Music and Humor : The Cartoon Music Aesthetic of Carl Stalling
Although the power of music to elicit emotions has been widely recognized, the capacity of music to produce laugher has been relatively unexplored. First of all...