Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Cory Doctokov: Roman siege engine for sale

Original: Link


Robbo sez, "A puppeteer colleague of mine, Matt Ficner, has been producing these delightfully weird short videos - a lot of laying-of-groundwork going on, the sense of pieces being put into place for a major legal fight.

He has even been certified by the Transportation Security Administration to carry a mandatory biometric RFID card in a pilot programme being deployed first to foreign students and we spousal visa holders (government is looking to curtail spousal visas altogether, capping all visas at 20,000 per year, including spousal visas, denying Britons the right to demand that games be released in a finished state.
3 Gamers shall have the right to bring their spouses into the country once the quota has been filled). The card will be eventually linked to all of the elements of contemporary artistic practice such as appropriation and "quoting" could potentially be outlawed by draconian legislation.
Link ( via Craft ! )

See also: Screenwriter of cancelled, leaked Warren Ellis pilot marvels at his fanbase