So I'm thinking I should start a bioart or video game blog. Something I can have my little niche in...
If I go with bioart, I'll be commenting and posting on the general news I find surrounding the subject. Unfortunately much of what I find is not in English. Perhaps I can post about how my own studies are going and how successful I plug the bioart bug throughout the art department... I'll review and share the latest of Eduardo Kac's works, like his project here.
If I go with a video game blog, I'd need an angle. Too many writers out there advertise the "grrl gamer" type, which is pretty annoying. Leigh Alexander is one of the few (and an actual professional) whom I respect for her writing and persona, if only because she doesn't lavish everything in pink and exclaim how her "girlitude" makes her a competitor amongst the primarily angsty-male crowd. More on the girl gamer rant later...
As for me, I think I'd like to start with a certain genre on a certain system... let's see- the Playstation has definitely been done, as well as most any other major home console since the 1990s (and retrogaming is pretty small in comparison). There's only been one big community I know of that focuses on portable games (where I've done a couple of reviews already) from any generation, so I could start with that. I could begin with a Nintendo DS review blog, with a special interest in anything dolphin, dinosaur, amphibian, or Tetris-like that is released...
Regardless, both subjects will eventually lead to me posting some inspired artwork, and as I'm going on an Ecco binge at the moment I'll probably be trying to paint some underwater dolphin scenes (again). Which by the way, I love The Girl Gamer's 8-bit artwork, and I will buy a keychain from there soon...
List of girl gaming sites:
The Girl Gamer
Lesbian Gamers
GayGamer
Gay Girls Who Game on the After Ellen blog
Girl Gamers Unite
Girl Gamer
Girl Gamers UK
G.I.R.L.
gen
My favorite name for a site: PMS Clan
...and there are plenty of "girl gamer" sites that cater for the horndogs of World of Warcraft and the like. Ugh.
After searching a bit I stumbled upon a site that's NOT steeping in black and pink and cursive letters, just a good community of all types of gamers that actually seem real and not made up to be some kind of "hot girls" den just waiting for some fool to give them gold for showing their tits... at PSNteractive
7.22.2009
Video Games or BioArt?
Labels:
art,
battletoads,
bioart,
Dr. Mario,
ecco,
Eduardo Kac,
girl gamers,
sega genesis,
video game art,
video games
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