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In a still from Jason and the Argonauts, three armed skeletons are lined up ready for battle.

Stop/Motion

By Orrin Grey • October 20th, 2022

Ray Harryhausen and the magic of stop motion monsters.

Here's the Thing
A closeup of the ribbon on a manual typewriter.

I’ve Been Staring At This For Two Days

By Rob Rich • October 14th, 2022

Rob had so much trouble figuring out what to write about, he decided to write about how tough it can be to figure out what to write sometimes.

Forms in Light

How to Build a Racetrack

By Justin Reeve • October 13th, 2022

Adopting a broader view as to what constitutes architecture can be a worthwhile endeavor.

Always Autumn
Wispy grey smoke swirling across a field of black.

Another Meaning of the Words

By Autumn Wright • October 12th, 2022

The alphabetical arrangement of Alaska for Looking brings attention to the nonmaterial components of text as a mode, and to the construction of the novel as a form rather than material object.

Casting Deep Meteo
The protagonist of the videogame Severed Steel holds two pistols akimbo as she crouches down low, ready for all takers.

The Fresh and Vertical

By Levi Rubeck • October 11th, 2022

Lately Levi’s been picking through Severed Steel, a title still honing in on the parkour and the shooting but sidestepping long set pieces for a series of puzzle rooms and time dilation.

Another Look
A screenshot from the overworld of The Legend of Zelda showing pixellated brush and the corner of a large blue lake. Several menacing creatures patrol land and water.

End of Zelda

By Yussef Cole • October 7th, 2022

Perhaps in Hyrule, which was apparently inspired by the local woodlands of its designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, we could grasp some of that same fantasy, that escape.

Rookie of the Year
In a still from the television show Madam Secretary, the title character sits at a desk in a Washington D.C. office, wearing a slightly exasperated smile.

Living the American Stream

By Matt Marrone • October 6th, 2022

America is beautiful – at least at night, without checking social media, as it streams on Netflix.

Interlinked

Acquiring Phantomilian

By Phoenix Simms • October 5th, 2022

Games have their own form of communication and language and, in some instances, they include constructed languages, or conlangs, that are foreign to their players too.

Mind Palaces
A still of Tom Hanks smirking sleazily as Colonel Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis.

Evil as Can Be

By Maddi Chilton • October 4th, 2022

The idea that Elvis would have been happy and healthy and long-lived if only were it not for his life-long manager Colonel Tom Parker is ahistorical.

Here Be Monsters
A stone frieze depicting a winged figure holding unbalanced scales.

An Introduction and Manifesto

By Emma Kostopolus • October 3rd, 2022

The horror of videogames, and a lot of horror more generally, rests on the fear of time.

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