Great analysis of learning elements using WoW as a framework.

#HangoutsonAir: The New School's Mashup Culture class with guest speakers Chris Burke & Tamara Yadao. Guest speakers Chris Burke & Tamara Yadao mash up filmmaking, music and video game technologies. Chris & Tamara did a tutorial demonstrating how they use sound objects in the video game LittleBigPlanet to create immersive electroacoustic spaces that can be "played." Google Hangout on Air: 7 April 2013.

Father and Son Build Twitter Mashup for 2012 Elections

Good article on game technologies that facilitate embodied learning strategies, which connect movement to concepts. 

Interesting competition: Liberated Pixel Cup is a two-part competition: make a bunch of awesome free culture licensed artwork, and program a bunch of free software games that use it. 

@Rebecca - I know, it's hauntingly gorgeous, right? The sand-spirit animation in The Mummy was produced using motion capture as well, but I think with more 'traditional' methods of motion capture, i.e., using reflective balls and/or other reflective gear that is placed on the body that enables motion tracking (like this: http://flic.kr/p/8MJyW ). The actor Arnold Vosloos, who plays the mummy, said, "They had to put these little red tracking lights all over my face so they could map in the special effects." (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(1999_film)#Special_effects) - A major difference between this method & the technique used to create the sand dancer mentioned in the article, is that the sand dancer was created using the Kinect, which doesn't need gear to be placed on the body in order to achieve motion tracking. Basically, the Kinect was a huge step in consumer versions of motion sensing because it enabled the user to move around and capture movement in 3D without an extra interface (no reflective balls or lights needed -- the body becomes the interface).

more data mashups!

great repository of data visualizations and mashups

The internet has intensified connections between people across the planet. In this episode we take a look at the impact of this new interconnectivity on the art world.