Content covering the intersection between technology and culture.
Posted by Raj Patel on May 22nd, 2008 | 0 comments
Video game editorial 101
English teacher Mrs. Buttermer has taken out her red pen and given it quite the workout, proof reading and marking up an article by Ryan Ash about the worst video game consoles of all time. The hyperbole she highlights penetrates both journalism around videogames and marketing of games and their hardware. The industry needs to start treating us like...Email personified virtually
The monotonous daily task of checking your inbox has just been mashed up with the thrill of crowd surfing and the lameness novelty of second life. 3D Mailbox is some kind of freakish nightmare with the slogan “Bring your email to life” for some reason. Lets stop and think about that for a second. Bring your email to life. Think about your emails. Now think about them being brought to life. Alice had it...Playstation versus pray station
Its getting to the point that anybody using architecture in any media is lawsuit bait, even if you designed the original architecture yourself. The latest skirmish on this front involves the Church of England thinking about launching a suit against Sony for their use of Manchester cathedral in a particular game. This issue is getting interesting. Who owns a design? The architect? The original client? The contractor?...
Posted by Raj Patel on May 9th, 2007 | 0 comments
Have at you!
The Setting is Nathan Phillips Square. The time is three o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday, the twelfth of May. The weapons of choice are pillows. The expected outcome? Some ‘n00bs’ are about to get ‘pwned’ with some feathery headshots and the number of cameras will match or exceed the number of pillows. Sharing:
Posted by Raj Patel on Sep 30th, 2006 | 2 comments
Nuit Blanche
Tonight is the night for Nuit Blanche to descend upon Toronto. Incase you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard we’ll remind you that it is this all night contemporary art thing. It is already looking to be absolutely huge and exciting. There is too much great work to mention so if you’re in Toronto between sunset tonight and dawn tomorrow morning be sure to check it out. We’re...
Hi, I'm Raj Patel. Nice to meet you. I'm a writer, photographer, film producer, avid reader, gamer, architect, programmer, artist, community manager, and general nerd.
Here at Ohmpage I try to cover the news and trends at the intersection between technology and culture. In practice this means you get a lot of high-tech, new-media, type of fun stuff (the stuff that interests me) presented to you. I surf hard so you don't have to.
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