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Weekly Design News Round Up

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La grande librairie [France 5]

July 3 - Weekly Vancouver Game Industry News

Techvibes Blog

- 16 hours and 6 minutes ago

This week's update is a quick one. Thanks for those who've contributed thus far - as always, if you have some Vancouver game industry news, contact me via my website.

Diving right in...

Klei Entertainment Signs with CAA
Jamie Cheng's company, Klei Entertainment, has signed with Creative Artists Agency. CAA represents well known people and companies such as thatgamecompany, Wil Wright and Steven Spielberg, among others. Klei are the developers behind Eets: Chowdown, the unpublished Sugar Rush (still in limbo after Nexon Vancouver, its publisher, folded), and their upcoming title, Shank.

New Media BC Seeks President
With New Media BC President Kenton Low set to move on to a new post at Bardel Entertainment, the organization is now actively seeking a new President. Just this week the job description went live and the search has begun. The #1 and #2 priorities for the next President, as listed in the job description, deal with increasing revenue for the association, most likely so more progress can be made in NMBC's efforts to establish interactive incentive programs similar to those in Eastern provinces.

Threewave's Dir of Prod Dev Resigns
Stephane Morichere-Matte, Director of Product Development at Threewave Software for the last 3 years, left the company recently to start his own consulting firm. Catchy Consulting specializes in risk management and project management for various publisher clients. The firm is already working with EA on an undisclosed title.

Artery Featured in The Escapist
On Tuesday, The Artery, Su Skerl's community for local artists and graphic designers, was featured in the well known game industry web magazine, The Escapist. If you're an artist not already familiar with The Artery, check it out. Every Thursday evening The Artery hosts "Draw Jams" at St Augustine's bar, an event that is well attended by not just artists, but producers and designers as well.

Adrian Crook is a game consultant based in North Vancouver. With over 14 years experience, Adrian designs and produces social, casual and AAA games for a variety of clients. He has spoken on the subject of free-to-play games at GDC and SXSW and writes articles for trade publications.

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Circa 1960s Ad: Sugar Prevents Overeating [Badvertising]

How To Maintain Your New iPhone's Erection—For Free! [Diy Iphone Dock]

Entrevue avec Toni Wilen, codeur de WinUAE

Cyrille BORNE : Il y a quelque chose de pourri dans le royaume du libre

Planet Libre

- 17 hours and 44 minutes ago

Souvent Christophe vient me crier dessus pour me dire que je dois arrêter de parler d'Ubuntu, de madame Michu, de prendre des raccourcis qui enfreignent la philosophie du libre, l'affaire du moment, à savoir l'utilisation de mono sous Linux vient donner du grain à moudre à mon camarade de jeu, je suis d'ailleurs surpris de ne pas avoir lu chez lui un article de 12 pages avec des références à des gens qui sont tous morts et 25 liens pour me pointer du doigt en soulignant qu'Ubuntu est en train de faire une ânerie. Au delà du débat technologique, je pense que Microsoft n'est pas réellement un ami qui nous veut du bien, et qu'il est important de faire les choses dans les règles, car tôt ou tard la société mettra tous les programmes qui ont utilisé cette technologie au pied du mur, ce ne sera pas la première fois que la firme de Redmond fait jouer sa paternité sur les brevets logiciels.

C'est curieux mais je n'arrive pas à m'emballer sur ce thème, je ne le trouve pas assez humain. Ce qui me révolte un peu plus c'est cet article qui n'a été relayé que par peu de blogueurs, qui explique que l'équipe de Tuxfamily est fatiguée, qu'elle souhaite passer la main et que finalement elle ne trouve pas d'écho auprès de ses à peine 2500 utilisateurs de ce service d'hébergement gratuit au service du libre. 2500 utilisateurs qui finalement ne sont que de simples profiteurs ou presque. J'aurai tendance à dire que si ça ferme, et bien ce serait normal, il faut croire qu'on ne sait fonctionner que de cette façon en France, on parasite, et quand la corne d'abondance est à sec, sans même s'interroger sur la façon de l'entretenir on passe à la suite.

Je trouve que cela fait beaucoup ces derniers temps. Après les trophées du libre et les conditions pitoyables dans lesquelles cela c'est déroulé notamment dans la remise des prix, maintenant l'affaire tuxfamily. Pourtant tuxfamily, c'est tout de même une association dont on comprend l'intérêt assez facilementÂ : hébergement de projets libre, de sites traitant du libre, nous connaissons tous des blogs ou d'importants projets hébergés par l'association;

L'ambiance nauséabonde ne s'arrête pas là. Dans le dernier Linux Pratique, le magazine que j'aime à détester ce n'est pas moins de 4 pages qui sont consacrées à 2ManDVD, je ne vous ferai pas de commentaires désobligeants sur la présentation du logiciel, je dirai tout simplement que je ne regrette pas d'avoir fait les tutoriaux sur le thème en vidéo tant le descriptif est incompréhensible pour qui voudrait se lancer dans une réalisation. Les termes de conclusion employés sont élogieux, l'auteur parle d'indispensable. C'est bien, nous sommes deux à le penser, lui, moi, pas les organisateurs des trophées du libre, et plus vraiment Stéphane si j'en crois la conversation que nous avons eu sur msn il y a de cela une semaine environ.

Stéphane est un développeur, et comme beaucoup de développeurs ce n'est pas un homme de communication, j'ai d'ailleurs eu des échanges assez houleux avec lui à l'époque de notre rencontre quand je lui expliquais que mandvd et manslide étaient deux bouses bugguées. Malgré l'appel au don que j'ai pu faire à l'époque, les mises en avant régulières de ses logiciels sur mon blog, je pense que quelque chose s'est cassé en lui depuis la finale des trophées du libre où pour défendre son projet on imposait sa présence. Les utilisateurs ne sont pas reconnaissants, les institutions ne le sont pas non plus, et bien mieux on trouve ici ou là des commentaires insultants dans les forum sur mon camarade qui reste un être humain avec sa sensibilité et pas un chien.

C'est donc ça le monde libreÂ ? Un monde de parasites, où la notion de solidarité n'a plus aucun sensÂ ? Les signes malheureusement montrent que oui, ce n'est pas d'aujourd'hui mais cela s'affirme encore plus au gré de certains évènements ou lectures. C'est peut être maintenant qu'il est temps de philosopher pour faire honneur à Christophe et de se rappeler qu'effectivement l'esprit du libre ne se résume pas à une gratuité d'utilisation, mais à quelque chose de bien plus humain, quelque chose qui nous relie les uns aux autres et qui devrait nous faire grandir.

Je ne sais pas quelle est la décision de Stéphane quant à l'avenir de ses logiciels, je me contente de regretter qu'une accumulation de petits riens arrivent à écÅ“urer les gens qui font vivre le libre car c'est bien de cela dont il est question, faire vivre le libre. Smile et 2ManDVD sont effectivement réalisés par un développeur unique, sans fondation derrière, toutefois ils répondent à un besoin évident pour toute personne qui fait un peu de vidéo numérique, c'est à dire au moins une bonne moitié des pères de famille, ils trouvent donc pour certains d'entre nous une place aussi importante qu'un Gimp ou un openoffice.

Arrêtons donc d'être de simples spectateurs pour le libre ou pire des parasites, devenons acteurs et apprenons à rendre aux petits les honneurs qu'on ne donne seulement qu'aux grands, Linux n'existerait pas dans sa forme actuelle sans les individus lambda de la communauté.

Billet original de Cyrille BORNE.Votez pour cet article sur le Planet Libre.

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Ban Ki-moon criticised for Burma junta praise

Guardian Unlimited

- 18 hours ago

The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, faced a barrage of criticism tonight for apparently praising the Burmese junta without winning any concessions over human rights or a move towards democracy.

Ban was under pressure to produce concrete results from his two-day mission to Burma, which was criticised as providing an endorsement to the Burmese leadership just as it is staging a trial of the opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

The high-stakes visit to Burma comes at a critical time for Ban, whose low-key approach to his job has been criticised as ineffectual. He came under further fire on arrival in Naypyidaw, the regime's headquarters, when he told the head of the junta, General Than Shwe: "I appreciate your commitment to moving your country forward."

"That is absolute nonsense," said Brad Adams, a Burma specialist at Human Rights Watch. "It's just what we implored him not to say, to make these diplomatic gaffes. Than Shwe has steadily moved his country backwards."

British officials were also furious at the remarks. They had urged Ban not to visit Burma, and risk handing the junta a propaganda prize with his visit, without first ensuring he would gain concessions in the form of the release of political prisoners and steps towards genuine democracy.

"Only agreement to release all political prisoners [and] start a genuine dialogue with the opposition and ethnic groups will give any credibility to the elections in 2010," Gordon Brown said in an article in the US online magazine The Huffington Post. According to No 10, Brown calls Ban at least twice a week to discuss Burma.

"I hope that Ban Ki-moon can convince the generals to take the first steps," Brown said. "A serious offer is on the table: the international community will work with Burma if the generals are prepared to embark on a genuine transition to democracy. But if the Burmese regime refuses to engage, the international community must be prepared to respond robustly."

However, Than Shwe said little at his meeting with Ban, and did not grant the secretary general's request to meet Suu Kyi in prison. Ban expressed hope that a meeting could still be permitted.

"I am leaving tomorrow, so logically speaking I am waiting for a reply before my departure," he said. The secretary general added that he had called for the release of all political prisoners before the elections, but got no response. He said Than Shwe had assured him, however, that the vote had been "fair, free and transparent".

However, Adams said: "The benchmark for success can't be what it was in the past. A meeting with Than Shwe is not a success. Even a meeting with Suu Kyi shouldn't be counted as a success, if all it means is she goes from being in jail back to being under house arrest.

"We have cautioned against this trip because it seems to be a trip for its own sake without any prospect of success."

Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace laureate, is on trial because an American supporter entered her compound, breaking the terms of her house arrest. Suu Kyi's lawyers said the man swam to the compound without her permission and had been urged to leave. The trial was adjourned yesterday until 10 July.

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Web Design Trend Hunting - Fluid Grid Layout: 10+ Outstanding Examples & 1 Tutorial | Inspired Magazine

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Togo / F3 : les images qui ont rendu Bolloré furieux

“Rihanna’s tattoo lesson could cost her $2000 in fines” morning links

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Ex-exec testifies against insurance giant for 'purging' customers [Health Insurance]

Consumerist

- 19 hours and 19 minutes ago

CNN reports on insurance industry whistle-blower Wendall Potter who, after working in the machine for 20 years, quit in order to right a few wrongs. Last week, Potter testified before the Senate about former employer Cigna's policy of "purging." In other words, Cigna would drive small businesses with expensive insurance claims to dump their Cigna policies.

"When that business comes up for renewal, the underwriters jack the rates up so much, the employer has no choice but to drop insurance," Potter said.

CNN obtained a transcript of a 2008 Cigna conference call with investors in which company executives use the term "purge."

Of course, Cigna spokesman Chris Curran denied that the company engages in purging.

"We do not practice that. We will offer rates that are reflective of the competitive group health insurance market. We always encourage our clients to compare our proposed rates to those available from other carriers," Curran wrote.

In other words, we purge, but we do it in a more delicately worded fashion than using the word "purge."

Potter's turnabout came in 2007, when he visited a medical charity event in Virginia and saw volunteer doctors seeing patients in barns, people in animal stalls. "It changed it for me," he told CNN. Potter is now blogging for the Center for Media and Democracy, the fine organization behind PR Watch.

Ex-executive accuses insurance giant of 'purging' customers [CNN] (Thanks, Cantras!)

Carrie McLaren & Jason Torchinsky are coeditors of Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture. In previous lives, they worked together on the hopelessly obscure and now defunct Stay Free! magazine .

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Bolloré contre Pièces à conviction : Paul Nahon réagit.

Beautiful Examples of Vexel Artworks and Tutorials | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine

Megan Fox Is An Idiot

Giuliano Bekor photographer

HATEBREED: New Video Interview Posted Online

Réponse à Tout : la 1ère communauté qui a réponse à tout sur le web

Olivennes : "brutalité et mépris" (rédacteurs obs)

A La Carte (7/3)

On Tour: Southeastern Europe Travelogue, Part 3

Rhizome Inclusive: News, Blog, and reBlog

- 21 hours and 25 minutes ago

Image: Kosmoplovci, P3225504-procesor, from the series “Fragments”

In June I traveled through southeastern Europe from Venice to Athens, where I’m looking at art and blogging. Part three of the travelogue is about Belgrade, Serbia.

With a population of two million, Belgrade is twice as big as Zagreb, which is thrice as big as Ljubljana, but the sizes of these three cities have a paradoxically inverse relationship to their cultural infrastructure, particularly at the intersection of art and technology. While little Ljubljana had enough events to fill my schedule for four days, Zagreb’s handful of galleries were in a summer slumber. But organizations were actually there, even if hibernating, while Belgrade had nothing. Many attributed that to the smaller country’s attempt to find a niche or a brand for itself in Europe’s crowded contemporary art world. “Artists in Ljubljana were trying to position themselves away from the context of ex- Yugoslavia,” said Maja Ciric, a Serbian curator. “I think it happened as an act of security. Institutional plans to normalize new media as a discipline were carried out to valorize the positive force of power, to show that the productivity of power is realized through policies that allow for the formation of the individual.”

Image: Kosmoplovci, stills from Satelitska Stanica

Belgrade had a small but active demoscene in the 1990s, which gave rise to one of the most interesting art collectives in the former Yugoslavia, Kosmoplovci (pronounced “kos-mo-PLOV-tsee”). The name means something like astronauts or space sailors, and comes from a 1970s do-it-yourself science and technology magazine that some demoscene friends found at a flea market in the early â€˜90s. The members of Kosmoplovci are fond of rummaging through the past, and their varied outputâ€”which includes internet works, videos, music, comics, and booksâ€”usually involves allusion and found media. Satelitska Stanica is based on an old 8mm film extolling a joint project with Japan to build a satellite station in a remote Yugoslavian province; the reel was salvaged at a flea market and transferred to digital devices with minimal interference. Marko Kraljevic, the Turk-fighting hero of Serbian epics, appears in previews of 2D and 3D video games that Kosmoplovci will probably never make. Self-aware makes public footage from a broken webcam, primarily the bewildered faces of the camera’s owner and repairman in the shop.

Recycling material follows from Kosmoplovci’s structure, where the four or five core members regularly bring in a dozen or more “temporary” Kosmoplovci, who specialize in specific media or channels of distribution (Aleksandar Opacic, for example, has a ragged, layered style of drawing that defines Kosmoplovci’s comics). All their videos can be freely downloaded, or have distinct online versions, while paper publications often get passed around to friends. Their distribution systems put them outside markets and conservative institutional systems; and while Igor, the collective’s de facto leader, said he does tech support for cultural institutions in Serbia, which helps the group maintain a link to the establishment, he spends just as much time on web sites for his drum-and-bass DJ friends.

Image: Nikola Tosic, Under Super Stupid Land

A couple of weeks before going to Belgrade I wrote to Nikola Tosicâ€”who specializes in posters and spare prose piecesâ€”with a request to meet and chat, and in a gesture of Balkan hospitality he replied with an invitation to stay at his place for the duration of my visit. Tosic lives on the outskirts of Belgrade, fitting for an artist who was active with Neen but keeps his distance from the local scene. His artworks, which he tosses off when he’s not working as a designer or training for triathlons, are deliberately marginal. A thank-you note to the internet’s creator and a description of the human species intended for aliens have clumsy graphics and a plain but quirky usage of English, which gives them the poignancy of stories by a precocious child. Tosic also organizes ephemeral events, like Let’s Meet in a Nice Restaurant, a networking-as-art gathering that has happened in Milan, Istanbul, and Transylvania. His current pet project is Triathlon Team, which involves hosting and designing blogs for his favorite triathletes. The idea of designating a team for a purely solitary sport, and trying to make humble triathletes the subject of media attention, has the same dry, barely-there humor as his cartoonish pieces.

Image: Nikola Tosic, sticker for Internet Pavilion

Carving art up by nations is always fraught with missteps. Geographic proximity makes it tempting to draw similarities between Kosmoplovci and Tosic, though their paths haven’t crossed in years and they have never collaborated. They have stronger analogues with DIY scenes and Neen, respectively, than anything in their neighborhood. Still, local conditionsâ€”namely, the absence of an institutional peer networkâ€”has an affect on their choices; no one is telling them they shouldn’t make art about triathlons or drum-and-bass. “Belgrade’s lack of a real new media lab or institute makes it more free,” said Ciric, the curator. “Because when new media works are produced they are a result of the pure individual creativity.”

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