17 June 2009 — Nalaka Gunawardene Reality TV with a purpose: Stars of Science on Pan Arab TV network“I believe that every TV programme has some educational value. The cathode ray tube – and now the plasma screen – is a window to the world.”So said Sir Arthur C Clarke, inventor of the communications satellite and one of the greatest science communicators of our time. He knew what he was talking about: he was not only a prolific and well-loved science writer, but also a genial host of popular sci
THE ARISING MEDIA ARMY by Julie Meyer I was given a profound and stunning dream that came with great clarity about the Arising Media Army of the Lord. I would like to share parts of it with you. In the dream, I was ‘IN’ it. I seemed to literally be at a movie theatre and there were new movies springing up. Yes, movies and media that are/were fueled by PRAYER. The key is Prayer. I could see in this dream that as long as people were not motivated by fame, favor and fortune and th
Steven Soderbergh has managed to build an enviable career – he gets to make fun, huge projects like ‘Ocean’s Eleven’, and alternates these with smaller, self-consciously serious films such as ‘The Underneath’, ‘Kafka’, and ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ , which I saw this afternoon at the Chelsea Clearview next door to the Chelsea Hotel, in, as you might expect, Chelsea. Name of the lead character of this movie? It’s an easy guess – my sense is that Soderbergh’s protagonist, played by an adult f
Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter CTheory … Global Game Factory Let’s first reframe some conventionally celebratory factoids about virtual play. The global game factory is now a major cultural-industrial complex, dominated by the console corporations–Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo–and a cluster of super-publishers, such as EA, Activision, Konami, Ubisoft and THQ. Control of game finance, licensing and marketing enables these giant