http://mwjenkins.com extension Fri, 29 May 2009 18:47:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "My name is Andrew Christian John von Rosenbach-Torbeke. If you can pronounce it properly on the first try I'll buy you a beer." They say if you can get someone saying yes in the first 30 seconds of a negotiation, it's a done deal. The same is true for comedy -- ... http://mwjenkins.com/2009/05/comedy-night-at-the-kingston/ Big Hadron games I am four months away from being among the first Masters of Digital Media. Between now and graduation I am working with five other students to develop 12 experimental games. You can read more about my experiences learning the ropes of art, code and design over at my new ... http://mwjenkins.com/2009/01/a-hadron-for-games/ http://mwjenkins.com/2008/01/worms-music-video-by-sil-van-der-woerd/ Double Happiness is seeking Second Lifers to work in our telematic textile factory on Eyebeam Island from January 17-27 for 3-hour shifts. We offer a competitive salary of 200 Lindens per hour plus land bonuses. No experience necessary. Positions include laser cutters, dye vat operators, jaquard loom weavers, quality control ... http://mwjenkins.com/2007/12/microprofessions/ Last week at the Masters of Digital Media we were paid a visit by the creators of Houdini, a high end 3d animation suite. I haven't used much in the way of 3d tools (like Maya, 3D Studio Max or Blender), but I am getting more interested in the subject. ... http://mwjenkins.com/2007/10/nodes-and-web-30/ I've now added a Flickr widget to the site that displays the last four photos from my Flickr photostream. The Masters of Digital Media gave us all small cameras to shoot the world with, so this is me doing my part to make sure that I'm generating lots of photos. ... http://mwjenkins.com/2007/10/added-flickr-to-the-website/ So I got a scholarship from Electronic Arts for the Masters of Digital Media that I'm taking right now, and it has generated a little bit of press. I got my BA in Langley (and spent the last 5 years there) so the story has run twice, once in the ... http://mwjenkins.com/2007/10/im-in-the-newspaper/ I've been out of the blogosphere for far too long, so I'm just going to jump into it and not make any apologies. I've been spending more and more of my time on Second Life lately, at the University Project that Sun has set up for the Masters of Digital ... http://mwjenkins.com/2007/10/4-changes-id-make-to-second-life/ It’s unsettling to think of the world being run by a futuristic computer geek, although we might at last dispose of that of classic theological question: How could God allow so much evil in the world? For the same reason there are plagues and earthquakes and battles in games like ... http://mwjenkins.com/2007/08/nytimes-on-theodicy/ What then is education? I had thought it was the curriculum the individual ran through in order to catch up with himself; and anyone who does not want to go through this curriculum will be little helped by being born into the most enlightened age. -- Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling http://mwjenkins.com/2007/05/kierkegaard-on-education/