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If A Tree Falls
A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
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Add a CommentInteresting. But the main character, McGowan seems so naive, it is almost embarrassing. And McGowan happy to take his family's money for legal costs etc. but feels free to condemn their behaviour. Seems like an aging teenager to me. ( I suspect he may have learned a thing or two in prison about how the world really works. ) Violence and destruction are not okay, no matter how strongly people feel about their particular social/environmental/ religious, etc. cause.
Interesting questions are raised on a number of moral and legal issues, does the torching of millions of dollars of assets while not harming a single person constitute terrorism and thus relegate the convicts to terrorist prisons? How could someone get so frustrated that they would do these acts? How could they get away with it for so long? Can a lumberman whose profit motive legitimately consider himself an environmentalist?
In the UW Horticulture and Jefferson arsons, they were totally clueless about what they were torching. They couldn't even find targets that were actually doing what they're supposedly against. it would be alot easier to get behind at least some sort of idealism if the specific actions weren't so clueless. the dvd doesn't even go into the extent to which the arsonists were uninformed about the actual research at UW. that they were also totally clueless about the Jefferson site research says alot about fanaticism and its drive to mindlessly lash out at anything. Is this is a balanced portrait of the movement:
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221B Baker Street is the London address of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the United Kingdom, postal addresses with a number followed by a letter may indicate a separate address within a larger, often residential building. Baker Street in Holmes' time was a high-class residential district, and Holmes' apartment was probably part of a Georgian terrace.
At the time the Holmes stories were published, addresses in Baker Street did not go as high as 221. Baker Street was later extended, and in 1932 the Abbey National Building Society moved into premises at 219–229 Baker Street. For many years, Abbey National employed a full-time secretary to answer mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes. In 1990, a blue plaque signifying 221B Baker Street was installed at the Sherlock Holmes Museum, situated elsewhere on the same block, and there followed a 15-year dispute between Abbey National and the Holmes Museum for the right to receive mail addressed to 221B Baker Street. Since the closure of Abbey House in 2005, ownership of the address by the Holmes Museum has not been challenged, despite its location between 237 and 241 Baker Street.
We met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No. 221B, Baker Street, of which he had spoken at our meeting. They consisted of a couple of comfortable bed-rooms and a single large airy sitting-room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad windows.
(Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, 1887)
When the "Sherlock Holmes" stories were first published, street numbers in Baker Street did not go as high as 221, which was presumably why Conan Doyle chose a higher street number for the location of his hero, to prevent any person's actual residence from being affected.
The section north of Marylebone Road near Regent's Park – now including 221 Baker Street – was known in Conan Doyle's lifetime as Upper Baker Street. In his first manuscript, Conan Doyle put Holmes' house in Upper Baker Street, indicating that if he had a house in mind, it would have been there. However, a British crime novelist named Nigel Morland claimed that, late in Conan Doyle's life, he identified the junction of Baker Street and George Street, about 500 metres south of Marylebone Road, as the location of 221B. Sherlockian experts have also held to alternative theories as to where the original 221B was located and have maintained that it was further down Baker Street.[1]
When street numbers were reallocated in the 1930s, the block of odd numbers from 215 to 229 was assigned to an Art Deco building known as Abbey House, constructed in 1932 for the Abbey Road Building Society, which the society and its successor (which subsequently became Abbey National plc) occupied until 2002.
Almost immediately, the building society started receiving correspondence from Sherlock Holmes fans all over the world, in such volumes that it appointed a permanent "secretary to Sherlock Holmes" to deal with it. A bronze plaque on the front of Abbey House carried a picture of Holmes and a quotation, but was removed from the building several years ago. Its present whereabouts are unknown. In 1999, Abbey National sponsored the creation of a bronze statue of Sherlock Holmes that now stands at the entrance to Baker Street tube station.
The Sherlock Holmes Museum is situated within an 1815 townhouse very similar to the 221B described in the stories and is located between 237 and 241 Baker Street. It displays exhibits in period rooms, wax figures and Holmes memorabilia, with the famous study overlooking Baker Street the highlight of the museum. The description of the house can be found throughout the stories, including the 17 steps leading from the ground-floor hallway to the first-floor study.[2]
According to the published stories, "221B Baker Street" was a suite of rooms on the first floor of a lodging house above a flight of 17 steps.[2] The main study overlooked Baker Street, and Holmes' bedroom was adjacent to this room at the rear of the house, with Dr. Watson's bedroom being on the floor above, overlooking a rear yard that had a plane tree in it.[3][4]
The street number 221B was assigned to the Sherlock Holmes Museum on 27 March 1990 (replacing the logical address 239 Baker Street) when the Leader of Westminster City Council, Lady Shirley Porter, unveiled a blue plaque signifying the address of 221B Baker Street. She was invited to renumber the museum's building to coincide with its official opening (and because the number 221B had not been included in the original planning consent for the museum granted in October 1989).
A long-running dispute over the number arose between the Sherlock Holmes Museum, the building society Abbey National (which had previously answered the mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes) and subsequently the local Westminster City Council. The main objection to the Museum's role in answering the letters was that the number 221B bestowed on the Museum by the Council was out of sequence with the other numbers in the street: an issue that has since vexed local bureaucrats, who have striven for years to keep street numbers in sequence. In 2005, Abbey National vacated their headquarters in Baker Street, which left the museum to battle with Westminster City Council to end the dispute over the number, which had created negative publicity.
After the closure of Abbey House in 2005, the Royal Mail recognised the museum's exclusive right to receive mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes.
Another version of Sherlock Holmes' apartment is at The Sherlock Holmes pub in Northumberland Street near Charing Cross railway station. This was originally a small hotel, the Northumberland Arms, but was refurbished and reopened under its present name in December 1957. Its owners, Whitbread & Co, were fortunate to own the entire Sherlock Holmes exhibit put together by Marylebone Borough Library and the Abbey National for the 1951 Festival of Britain. The pub was restored to a late Victorian form and the exhibit, a detailed replica of Holmes' fictional apartment, was installed on the upstairs floor.
The fictional address has been satirised in the following pastiches of Sherlock Holmes:
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All-optical passive clock extraction of 40 Gbit/s NRZ data using narrow-band filtering
Optics Express, Vol. 12, Issue 14, pp. 3196-3203 (2004)
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A passive all-optical scheme for clock extraction from non return-to-zero (NRZ) data has been proposed based on narrow-band filtering. Two equally effective embodiments of the proposed scheme have been demonstrated experimentally. A carrier-to-noise ratio (CNR) of 30 dB has been achieved at 40 Gbit/s using fiber Bragg gratings (FBG).
© 2004 Optical Society of America
OCIS Codes
(060.2330) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics communications
(070.4560) Fourier optics and signal processing : Data processing by optical means
(070.4790) Fourier optics and signal processing : Spectrum analysis
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Research Papers
Original Manuscript: June 2, 2004
Revised Manuscript: July 2, 2004
Published: July 12, 2004
Xiaoxu Li, Cheolhwan Kim, and Guifang Li, "All-optical passive clock extraction of 40 Gbit/s NRZ data using narrow-band filtering," Opt. Express 12, 3196-3203 (2004)
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When we opened Zafferano, it was owned by Trusthouse, who used to do breakfasts, and they had this 6 slice Dualit toaster. Of course, being Italian, the staff used to grill the bread by hand, so it never got used. They ended up leaving it behind, so we took it home. It was already so old, so heavy, but it lasted several years. Now we have this smaller one.
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2010-04-28 14:15:00
Steven Penman, Winnipeg, Man.
I got a good laugh when Duncan Keith sprayed an obnoxious fan with a Gatorade bottle while sitting in the penalty box, but it raises the question as to why there is a large enough space into the penalty box for a fan to be able to harass him.
It seems as though the league should implement a rule that requires all arenas to fully enclose the penalty boxes to prevent this lack of respect towards the game and players from continuing.
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These cycles of experience ... all stem from that worm-riddled book
Phenderson Djèlí Clark details H. P. Lovecraft's racism (earlier version with links to recommended reading/listening). Daniel José Older situates HPL's racism within a more general aesthetics of disgust. Silvia Moreno-Garcia engages with racism in both HPL and Robert E. Howard through work such as co-editing a multicultural issue (pdf) of Innsmouth Magazine (formerly Innsmouth Free Press) and a new Sword & Mythos anthology. Balogun Ojetade explains how confronting racism in HPL and REH spurred his participation in the sub-genre of Sword and Soul.
Calamari a la Mode
On the Lovecraftian Mode - Gord Sellar on why he writes lovecraftian fiction. Elizabeth Bear on the same question. I. N. J. Culbard on adapting Lovecraft.
"I was ... working on something else but last night I dreamt of R'lyeh"
The title of Allen Williams' website, "I Just Draw," undersells his works. These are no idle doodles, but rather, as Guillermo del Toro wrote: "Entire worlds flow from Allen Williams' pencil and brush. Creatures and characters more twisted and full of humanity than our imagination dares to conjure. He is an incredible draughtsman and a true original mind." You can see more of Williams' works on his blog. Click on the images to enlarge them. [more inside]
H.P. Lovecraft's fantasy novel, as a comic and animated movie
H.P. Lovecraft, inspired by Lord Dunsany (Wikipedia; Project Gutenberg; UPenn online library) and Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom (annotated stories online), created the Dreamlands, in which he set the 20+ stories of the Dream Cycle. The longest story was The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (Wikipedia), completed in 1927, but unpublished in his lifetime. Comic artist, Jason Thompson, started illustrating the story in high school, then re-drew the story after college, and that comic was semi-animated as a feature-length film. He wrote up his influences for a hidden commentary on the DVD, and expanded it online as The Annotated Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. More Lovecraft sketches and comics online in Thompson's Mockman archive. [Previously: Lovecraft comic adaptations]
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown - A 90 minute documentary on HP Lovecraft with contributions by Neil Gaiman, John Carpenter and Guillermo Del Toro.
Fantastic art by John Jude Palencar
Just some cool dark fantasy art by John Jude Palencar, including covers for Lovecraft, de Lint, Tolkien and other popular books.


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Immigrant Integration
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This report explores the fundamental question of how successful integration and immigrant social mobility is in Europe and North America. The authors examine the economic performance and rate of labor market assimilation for first and second generation immigrants, and outline what policymakers can do to promote the social mobility and integration of immigrants and their children.
MPI convened the first extraordinary meeting of the Transatlantic Council on Migration in Berlin on June 17-18, 2009. The expert dialogue focused on local integration efforts and outcomes in North America and Europe, examining what works (and what does not) with respect to integration.
Report examines the findings of a survey conducted by The Integration of the European Second Generation (TIES), which compares data for second-generation Turks with parents of comparable backgrounds across contextual factors in seven European countries to explore why educational outcomes vary within the target group.
The discussion guide offers a brief demographic and statistical profile of the immigrant student population in the United States, with comparison points drawn to Germany, sketches the broad policy implications of the demographic data, and provides a set of policy and practice issues in immigrant education and integration to facilitate a Roundtable inquiry in two areas: early childhood care and education, and secondary education.
Award winners for the inaugural year of the E Pluribus Unum Prizes program were honored at a reception at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC in 2009.
MPI's symposium on citizenship examined immigrant civic and political participation, the notion of local voting rights for noncitizens, the concept and practice of dual citizenship, and the role of citizenship in immigrant integration.
"Good integration" happens every day in different areas around the country, either as a unified response to a tragic event, in the private sphere, or in the successful performance of some ethnic minorities in education and employment.Yet, in some respects, communities are moving apart, pulled or sometimes pushed, by their own choices.
As with an increasing number of other complex issues, policymakers engaged in immigration reforms must be acutely attuned and responsive to public opinion and media representation of immigration.


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A ghetto neighborhood in Sacramento. Martin Luther King Blvd is the main street. On MLK,there are 4 churches, Chritian Brothers high school, and an elemaentary school next to it. On the corner of Fruitridge and MLK, the is a ghetto Taco Bell that has a bullet proof drive thru window. Driving through,Oak Park one will the Prit market, which is your wholesaler in liquor, and if you go a few blocks in, there are some "street pharmacists" to sell you any perscription medicine you need. People usually drive aimlessly around and sometimes high schoolers may need to watch out for drunk drivers. On sunny days, mexican ice cream vendor roam the streets. At 6pm everyday, there are 3 distinctive gun shots fired. And also at 6pm, the prostitutes line the walls of Prit market. Next to the shopping carts in people's front yeards, one might see Escaldes, Tahoes, and Navigators parked. NEVER GO THROUGH OAK PARK ON FOOT AT NIGHT. the OPGs are out there.
Oak Park, a block where everything is forsheezee"
by A.M.F
February 27, 2007
A town just west of chicago known for its famous residents such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Ernest Hemingway as well as its large homosexual population. Although The cuisine is excellent, it is likely that while walking to a fine resturant, such as Geppetto's or Papaspiros, you will be attacked by a member of the ACLU,one of the local schizophrenics, or Alan, the man who lives with his life partner Ernesto and 5 cats.
Oak park Visitor:
"Im sorry im so late, i saw a space in front of the building but i didnt have a permit, so instead, i parked by Jimmy Johns in Forest Park . I only had two quarters so remind me to move my car in about 40 minutes."
"Im sorry im so late, i saw a space in front of the building but i didnt have a permit, so instead, i parked by Jimmy Johns in Forest Park . I only had two quarters so remind me to move my car in about 40 minutes."
by suburbanarium
January 06, 2008
a place full of stoners that live in austin gardens and scoville park....
choking down panda and pizza...
hackey sack and hobos...
hackey sack and hobos...
by dizzy marilyn
June 21, 2005
area in downtown sacramento,ca that has a rep for bein ghetto and know for bein populated by gang members
my boy was down by oak park this weekend and looked at someone wrong and got jumped.
we went to oak park to get a sackdont walk through oak park at night.
we went to oak park to get a sackdont walk through oak park at night.
by sactowntagger_2005
March 01, 2005
Oak Park began as Sacramento's very first suburb in 1889. James McClatchy park was originally a small amusment park called "Joy land" which included a quite popular Ferris wheel. After the end of WWII people were getting laid off and began to lose their homes to bank foreclosures. Property value went down and Oak Park began to become more and more "ghetto". Oak Park is one of the more dangerous places to be in Sacramento that I can think of. The city owns almost half of the homes in Oak Park yet they dont seem to be doing a whole lot with them.
Oak Park is a place you dont want to drive alone at night.
by MoDiMo
November 08, 2006
A suburb directly west of Chicago. Half the bungalows are occupied by lesbians with two kids from sperm donation, the other annoyingly normal families. The apartments on Washington Street are all occupied by no-dad black families with teens that cross over to the neighboring Austin ghetto to get pot and bootleg copies of "Twilight"
I live in Oak Park.
by 2BASSKO
January 23, 2009
A suburb of Detroit, MI. It's a small city that is majority black, but has a very arge population of Orthodox Jews.
"Hey, where you from?"
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The authentic Octopus City simulation for Windows, OS X and Linux. A surreal adventure game about everything and nothing. Read more
The authentic Octopus City simulation for Windows, OS X and Linux. A surreal adventure game about everything and nothing.
About this project
Note: The estimated delivery date for the $10 reward is December 2014.
Stretch Goals
Read all about the stretch goals in this post.
Original Pitch
Ghost in a Bottle GmbH is pleased to announce Octopus City Blues, the authentic Octopus City simulation. For people unacquainted with Octopus City simulation genre, the simulation resembles the adventure games of yore, immersing players in a fascinating setting filled with unusual characters. We place special emphasis on exploration, replay value and the consequences of choices.
Assume the role of Kaf Kafkaryan, a cowardly middle-aged octopus blood junkie and tentacle trimmer, living in a city built around a giant octopus. Kaf has been experiencing bizarre dreams about a world populated by twisted creatures. To help the inhabitants of his dreams, he must learn more about the people of the city and explore the underside of the towering metropolis. Along the way he becomes entangled in a conspiracy with far-reaching implications for Octopus City.
Planned Features
- An authentic Octopus City simulation offering nothing but the most lovely tentacles ever conceived; wonderful pixel art and animations bring the city to life with the help of a diverse soundtrack.
- Learn more about the city's dark history and its corrupt inhabitants in a non-linear main story.
- Strange dreams to explore, each with its unique story and presentation.
- Exciting things are always happening in Octopus City. Each NPC has his or her personality, relationships, and daily schedule.
- More tentacles than the competition. You won't be disappointed like that one game that had the word Tentacle in its title but featured only two of them.
- Learn exciting abilities such as: performing a spin dash, cutting dead tentacles, interpretive dancing, and dumpster diving.
- An open world experience offering a lot of flexibility in the order of attempting the main story quests. There are several ways to complete each quest and your choices have mysterious effects.
- A dialogue system built around acquiring knowledge and managing stress.
- Absolutely DRM-free. You will be able to change Kaf's sprite into Sora from Kingdom Hearts or replace the OST with your favorite Hall & Oats album.
Check out Marina's YouTube channel for "Making Of" videos for these scenes.
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Music by Aaron Eason
Tentacle Soup - Urban Medley:
Lowrie - The Conman's Theme:
Its Tentacles Come Into View:
Octopus City
Whether you are here for business, pleasure, or to escape the terrible blizzard that has raged for hundreds of years, Octopus City has plenty to offer. From the entertaining, family-friendly activities to a bustling nightlife and a variety of wonderful attractions, Octopus City has it all.
A marvel of modern engineering and a testament to human resilience, Octopus City is the last surviving octopus city in the world. Our brilliant scientists managed to keep the gigantic octopus alive using a complex system of steam machines. As the last human bastion, our city represents the beating heart of a dying planet. What are you waiting for? Octopus City awaits you.
For new visitors such as yourself, having spent your entire life digging tunnels under the city in search for fuel, your eyes and body will need time to adapt to the dazzling lights and clean air. Once you feel more comfortable, please report to the Central Administration for briefing, numbering, filing, and indexing.
One last word of advice: Pay no heed to the harmless tentacles creeping through cracks in the ground or holes in the walls. Under no circumstance should you attempt to drink the blue blood running through them. Octopus blood (Octoblood) addiction is a serious problem that the Administration is committed to fighting, and while Octoblood-induced hallucinations might seem like a pleasant experience, addicts end up consumed in their illusions. Say "NO" to Octoblood!
We hope you enjoy your time in Octopus City, the greatest, largest, most populous, and only city in the world. Welcome to the human race!
Octopus City Blues is an adventure game where you explore the eponymous city and interact with its inhabitants. It takes place in a small but vibrant part of the city. We've opted to limit the scope of the game to make every NPC important. Each NPC has his or her own daily schedule, likes and dislikes, and opinions about the world and other characters. We want to create a dynamic city that's always changing. For example, you might visit the central plaza to find people gathered around the dead body of a homeless man. On another day, you might witness a musical performance in the same place. These small events are not part of the main plot, but serve to enrich the world and can lead to optional side-quests.
In addition to exploration, the main activity in Octopus City Blues is interacting with NPCs. Dialogue trees work similarly to other adventure games and RPGs, but in many cases the visible dialogue options will be selected from a larger list of possible choices. This is based on certain criteria such as your relationship with the NPC, your past actions, the equipped items, and more. Aside from adding to the replay value, this allows influencing the dialogue in a variety of interesting ways.
For example, one important element of gameplay is acquiring knowledge. Talking to NPCs and reading books allows you to learn factoids about the city and the people living in it. These factoids are recorded in Kaf's journal and can be used in future encounters. What Kaf knows or doesn't know can drastically change his interactions with certain NPCs.
Kaf isn't your average hero. In fact, he's not a hero at all. He is a gutless man, severely lacking in self-confidence. This causes Kaf to get stressed when placed in difficult situations. Stress affects the options Kaf has and causes him to make mistakes that influence the gameplay experience. Stress can be managed by trying to diffuse an escalated situation and by avoiding whatever is worrying Kaf.
Another aspect of stress management is guilt. Making choices that Kaf doesn't approve of makes him feel guilty. Guilt makes stress management harder, but also leads to more intriguing choices. Resorting to Octoblood and playing arcade games are some temporary, albeit risky, shortcuts to reduce guilt.
Throughout the game, Kaf explores a number of whimsical dreams. Each dream takes place in a different world that has its own inhabitants and story. From the trainee soldier escaping a war-torn island of dung beetles to the aging horse of a notorious cowboy, Kaf assumes many roles and explores weird landscapes. The scope of these dreams greatly depends on the funding, but even at the minimal level we believe that we can provide an engaging and fun experience.
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Your help will allow us to continue producing gorgeous octopus appendages. It will also pay for the catchy tunes you'll listen to as you walk through the dark alleys of the city.
As the main designer and programmer, I have no problem working on my game for free. However, in order to make this game I need to secure enough funding to pay the other team members for their time.
The amount we asked for is enough to cover the basic version of the game in terms of art and music. We designed the dream worlds in a way that we can scale them based on the funding. Additional funding will help us make each dream more unique and engaging.
What's in it for you
Apart from our eternal gratitude and the warm feeling of being a part of the world's largest octopus city simulation, we have prepared a number of exciting rewards. All reward tiers include the rewards of previous tiers, even if previous tiers are limited in quantity.
- $1+ allows you to meet our CEO for food and a game of Monopoly, as long as you pay for any other expenses...
- $10+ gets you Octopus City Blues in digital DRM-free format for all supported platforms (Windows, Linux, OS X) as soon as it is released.
- $15+ grants you early access to the demo and final game. You also get an invitation to a private forum where you can tell us how much you love molluscs.
- $20+ earns you a digital download of the soundtrack.
- $25+ is for an exclusive version of the game with a new location and side quest, and more tentacles than the regular version.
- $35+ (1) includes the Necronomicon, a digital companion guide containing tips, development notes, art, and articles similar to the ones on our website.
- $35+ (2) is an alternative option to get the digital art book without the Necronomicon companion guide.
- $50+ gets you a digital copy of the art book with beautiful concept and pixel art, in addition to the Necronomicon and all previous rewards.
- $75+ allows you to be in the game as an NPC. We will send you a survey and then create an NPC based on you (based on a photo or a description). You can specify what you want the NPC to say as long as it fits the scenario and conditions we specify in the survey.
- $100+ offers a physical copy of the game and an ink drawing by our artist.
- $250+ is for rich people who like to throw their money away. Now is your chance to do it in a game in the form of a hidden portrait that gives players money.
- $600+ gets you a special physical sculpture of a tentacle in a pot, your choice of an ink or water color painting by our artist, and a digital leaflet teaching you how to take care of your pet tentacle.
- $1000+ nets you an email expressing our thanks for your contribution.
About Us
- Firas Assaad: The malevolent CEO of Ghost in a Bottle and the primary designer, programmer, and sprite artist of Octopus City Blues. Firas is a software developer living in Kuwait. He invested most of his stat points into STR so he could carry more items.
- Marina Navarro Travesset: Our senior tentacle artist from Spain. She is responsible for almost all the art and animations in the game. Marina is a professional pixel artist with over 9 years of experience. Zombie cheese and crude fish meat give her nightmares.
- Aaron Eason: The composer of the Octopus City Blues soundtrack. He is our 100% organic, free-range MIDI-farmer, operating from his music production facility in North Carolina.
- Karl Crawford: Karl isn't really a member of Ghost in a Bottle but we keep him around because he's our only fan. His concept art and wacky ideas are an added bonus.
- Andrew "Kef" Barbour: Our producer and copy editor. Andrew is notable for his powerful platinum jaw; Ghost in a Bottle and its subsidiaries does not discriminate against cyborgs.
Risks and challenges
Game development is always risky. This is particularly true for ambitious projects such as Octopus City Blues. We would like to make it clear that this is Ghost in a Bottle's first serious project and that we are still in the early phases of development.
We've made a lot of progress in the last few months and we are confident in our ability to release a demo of the game this year. All of us are really excited and committed to the success of this project. We have a very clear idea of the scope of the game, and while extra funding would help improve the quality and length of some areas (particularly the dream segments), we don't plan to add any new areas or make any changes to the core design. This is also why we don't have many physical rewards, we felt that the time needed to prepare these rewards and make sure people receive them is better spent making the game itself.
With that said, setbacks do happen and we will do our best to deal with them and to keep you updated at all times.
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Our primary target is the English version. However, we also plan to release the game in Arabic, Catalan and Spanish after the English release. We would love to translate the game to more languages, but that would require dedicated native speakers.
We're afraid that the human brain isn't quite ready for such an intense sensory overload. 3D tentacles are the stuff of nightmares.
It's an adventure game where the primary activities are talking to people, using items, exploring weird places, gathering knowledge, managing stress/guilt, and making choices. By Octopus City simulation we refer to the NPCs having schedules and the city and its inhabitants changing over time. You can't die but bad choices lead to a different game experience. While there is no combat, there are some action oriented mini-games. We have a button in the game to perform a spin dash, but it's a fun thing to do and not a major game mechanic.
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Mabulu versus Murray
by Unathi Kondile / 24.05.2012Firstly, I'd like to thank Brett Murray for his contribution to the arts. Secondly, I wish I could deliver canapés and wine to all the South African households who have had the privilege of entering a gallery from the comfort of their homes, courtesy of our media's walkabouts therein. Thirdly, I'd like to talk about the state of the Art, in South Africa, as well as the neglected role of township / black artists in post-apartheid South Africa.
Let's just rewind to 2010. An artist named Ayanda Mabulu. Pause. I thought this was a pseudonym at first, because this name and surname combo means "Afrikaners are expanding!" You have to love the irony of naming in Africa. Anyway, Ayanda Mabulu produces a piece titled "Ngcono ihlwempu kunesibhanxo sesityebi" (better a fool than a rich man's nonsense, loosely translated). It's exhibited at Worldart Gallery towards the end of 2010.
Without going into too much detail about the work (above), I'm sure we can see President Jacob Zuma's manhood in crutches and Archbishop Desmond Tutu's manhood tied up as if it's injured. Mabulu explained these representations as metaphors – the crutches on the president's manhood indicate overuse and that it needs crutches to get by. Tutu's tied up manhood alludes to how weakened the Archbishop has become, he is "incapacitated and 'colonised' by Western values – in pain, just like during initiation [circumcision]."
I would imagine such prominent penises would cause an outcry of bellowing proportions. But alas, calm prevailed, largely because this work remained in the elitist confines of the art world. Protected from the underdeveloped minds of those that aren't acquainted to fine art. Protected from uncouth admirers who would gobble this up all too literally. Safe. 'Outsiders' could not access it and the media couldn't give a toss about what some black artist had done.
Forward to today. Brett Murray produces The Spear which depicts the president of South Africa in a Lenin-like stance with his manhood dangling below. The City Press newspaper picks this spear up and runs with it. And boy do they run with it. The editor is beyond herself with bewilderment of selling papers to an art consuming market. She can't wait. All those art connoisseurs buying her paper. Praise Murray! A few days later the ANC is up in arms about this depiction of the president. They're even up in arms with the City Press, which gave a hand in the distribution… The rest is history, as they say. As all of this is relegated to the country's latest frenzy – outcry on social media and only one or two iconoclastically inclined vandals are bold enough to do something about the work.
Question is: Why was there no outcry over Ayanda Mabulu's depiction of president Zuma?
Yes, Brett Murray is a renowned artist (within his own or art circles), but not to the overwhelming majority that is against his work. Who he is is irrelevant to this outcry. So, why was there no outrage around Mabulu's work? The answer to this is much more complex than because he is a black artist or it's politics. The answer to this could tear South Africa's art farce to pieces. Shred it. But today I do not feel like tearing anything. So I'll be gentle. If we look at the current crop of black South African artists that are going places or have made it you will largely notice that their work revolves around identity: blackness and sexuality to be precise. Nothing else.
Whereas if you look at their white counterparts, who went to the same art institutions – they have the leisure of placing a box of Omo next to a box of Joko and calling that Joko Omo (Yoko Ono) in an art gallery. And praise prevails. If a black artist were to attempt to display such it would be ignored, laughed off as imbecility and not art. Only white artists are capable of conceptual art production. Blacks have to stick to the obvious "speak about yourself in your work! Tell us how lesbian you are, how black you feel, etcetera. Only."
I could go on. But to keep this short, the reason Ayanda Mabulu's artwork didn't cause ripples is because as far as art is concerned a black artist is intellectually incapable of producing a complex work – blacks are incapable of satire – until they are verified by their white counterparts. No conceptualism, surrealism, avant-gardism, post-modernism or post-postmodernism in black art. Keep it simple. Black stories must always be kept straightforward so as to not confuse the white reader.
It is only when the African story is told through the white lens that newspapers and the general public will pay attention. There are so many black artists in this country producing artworks that are screaming to be heard. Producing artworks about township life, poverty, inequality and how government has failed them. But I am afraid, until the overwhelmingly white curators, educators and narrators of art decide that such work is also art, we will only see the Mabulus when said white curator and white art educators are trying to defend their Brett Murrays. Suddenly we hear, "but Ayanda Mabulu did it too!" oh, so all along you knew about Mabulu's work but failed to heap it with praise like you do to the Murrays? Okay.
So once again, I would like to thank Brett Murray for his artwork that has put art on the media map once again. The lack of media attention to Fine Art is a disgrace in this country. Considering we have a long history of resistance art that contributed to the liberation of this country too.
Today, more than ever, I feel that art can be flung out of those white cube spaces such as the Goodman Gallery and into public discourse, much like The Spear has been thrown around – so that it challenges the public and stimulates this kind of debate. Art must and can challenge service delivery in this country. It can challenge corruption, even. But the problem is that no one will pay attention to such art when it comes from black artists and if it comes from a white artist it will be dismissed as racism or black contempt easily.
I am hoping that all of this will cast light on the plight of black artists who are not allowed, by artistic norms and art education to express themselves beyond my-identity-this-my-identity-that.
Fine Art, like many other spears spheres of the Arts plays a fundamental role in the development of a society.
I trust that the media will keep its ear on the Fine Art ground from here onwards. There are stories there.
*View Unathi Kondile's blog here.
The ANC didn't cause the uproar Jason. It took the ANC four days to actually pay attention to this well-orchestrated news agenda setting theme. As much as the ANC is filled with villians of all sorts we're giving it too much credit if we think it caused the uproar.
Ever since Julius Malema faded we have seen a scramble for new news by our media houses.
Without even going as far as politics, let's first stop and take a look at how the media really ensured extra-mileage for this story.
So, as I said, it took the ANC four days to respond to this artwork and that response was a direct result of the pressure the City Press and other Media24 titles, together with social media exerted.
Why did the media work so hard on pushing Murray's artwork to top the agenda? Why didn't they do they same for Mabulu's?
The answer to these questions will also make it very clear who sets national discourse. It is the media. Not politicians. You think, react and speak according to what the media decides for you. They're tired of Mdluli, so they'll dish you something else to chew on whilst they dig up something else.
The City Press worked very hard on this one. Why do you think the ANC is now after the City Press instructing its members not to buy the paper? No, folks, if anyone is playing anyone here it's the media via it's "Finding the Next Malema" excursion.
p.s.: It's great that art can once again stimulate debate – it too has potential to go against the ANC's ills – but we need to level the playing field so that black and white artists can be heard equally as they take on authority.
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Ignoring Ayanda's painting entirely (again), the City Press has been at the forefront of exposing many of the ANCs most corrupt activities so ANC has always been looking for a reason to get back at them without looking like they're defending corruption. Enter the spear…
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I drew a picture too, it also got ignored:(
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FFS, if there is such a huge market for black art and all the black people want to see why does some enterprising black person open a fucking gallery and tap into it. Honestly this wailing about the unfair world makes me want to kick youe arse hard enough for your eyes to open. Grow a pair and open a gallery you knob.
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I agree with anonymous, you can´t make white people responsable if in certain areas black people do not participate. Don´t you find it sad that the most succesful black painters or for instance black writers are supported mainly by whites and not blacks? The problem is that when you ask the question of why there is no more participation of black people for instance in the arts, though there are economical and other factors, the main issue that no one wants to say is the culture factor. Take soccer for instance, after crying for opportunities and give people the chance to enjoy and develop it, now after all billions spent we end up with empty stadiums, where is the black support in something that it should be naturally appreciated by them?
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Cnut – Are you serious? How innovative is Murray who traces an image of Lenin and sticks a picture of Zuma's head on it (Am curious though whos privates he copied). It has the quality of a matric art students graphic design exam project.. But with the maturity of a primary school child upset with his teacher for punishing him. Mabuli's work at least shows imagination and talent and a proper comment on current politics (I love it!).
Sad day indeed when it takes the presidents privates to finally get South Africans into a gallery (is that because our art can be so bad, or curators can be so boring – or that we are just culturally lazy in this country) and SA art so much international coverage – worse day that the government gets so upset about a painting and nothing else REAL that happens in this country on a daily basis.
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ayanda mabulu versus brett murray.
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I think that Ayanda had been offered to exhibit at the ABSA gallery in 2010, and when presented with the paintings they had refused to exhibit them.
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Thanks Judith for the insightful comments.
I think that the whole country has fallen prey to a political agenda once again- and its no suprise that racism is again blamed-. its our fallback option in this country. Its sure to stir up a storm when one side or another needs to control the moral high ground.Whites do it, blacks do it. – its easier to created a furore than to engage in some self-examination. And that goes for all of us.
This is certainly not the first depiction of a South African president- nor is it the first depiction of nudity. And as the article shows, not the first depiction of a semi-naked president.It's however the first time (to my knowledge) that the FPB has been called in to classify an artwork (on the basis of nudity- because the cannot classify it on any other basis!)
What is the saddest thing for me to see is how quickly people who are in a position to influence thousands of others call for violence, agression and even death in each an every circumstance of offence as the FIRST action.
Look at the DA/COSATU March.Wansn't it the same ANC who only took up arms via MK only when ALLLLLLLLL other options had been exhausted?
Our country objects to Murrays use of the imagery of (soviet) revolution. But this is an unsuprising reaction to our political rhetoric of Revolution and War- we are inuandated with political leaders talking of "defeating you" and revolutionary houses".
Why are we still comrades and not colleagues?
Why are our leader still using the language of REVOLUTION and WAR?
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Where can I get a print of The Spear? It would make a lovely companion piece next to my Tretchi Chinese Girl.
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Poorly written and poorly argued. Maybe get Judith Mason writing for you Mahala….
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seeweed – I'm sure they'll be available soon on a street-corner near you…
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Great piece of writing! Pity it is wasted on the types of people who have added their comments here. We need more of this kind of writing – that shows thought, insight whilst being playful
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Black and white; like a colourless television.
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Very interesting article, and what hype around one man"s penis! We all pretend we are happily holding hands under our beautiful rainbow, while singing the theme song to the Brady Bunch…and it is all rubbish. The branding of this country simply does not show the realities and at any opportunity possible people will protest to show this…I agree with you in that it should be in the artworld that this debate and argument is stimulated and for that Brett Murray has done a great job.. intentionally or unintentionally. Why did Ayanda's work fall under the radar? you have opened my mind to a perspective I have not heard before about the white artist vs the black artist in this country. Sadly as I think about it you may be right, but I hope you are wrong! Art should stand separate from society and race..but in South Africa no one and nothing has that luxury!!!
Thanks for the article!!!
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Could it also be that Brett Murray has been around for exactly 20 years longer as an artist than Ayanda Mabulu? Usually older artists are far more well known than the younger ones. And I'm sure that from all this hype about The Spear with reference to Ayanda Mabulu's work, Ayanda will become more and more recognised. Also, once the South Africans are better educated, there will also be an increased appreciation for fine art, especially from black audiences. Under educated people selrom show hightened interest in fine arts. But hopefully this will change and previously disadvantaged South Africans will grow to fully support the arts in general.
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"To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white." E E. Cummings . . . American Poet/Author/Painter , , , who cares if he was Black or White . . . or Mabulu and Murray.
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But no-one is talking about WHY the picture of a penis in the first place. What is the artist saying? There is a lot of conjecture that it is about Zuma's sexuality, but for me it's not clear what he is saying about it and if a Soviet picture is even a clear and convincing picture for doing so – seems like a cheap shot if you ask me and very clumsy, churlish and superficial "metaphor".
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You of course do realize that Ayanda Mabulu's work was published and reviewed in the Cape Times of 8 Nov 2010?
Here, let me do your research for you… see link below.http://worldart.co.za/uploads/media/CT%20review8Nov2010.pdf
So as far as I am concerned, the media gave the different artists the exact same coverage (review), in fact Ayanda's review was more than half a page long. So where the hell do you get off saying the media didn't give the black artist the same attention. Please learn the facts before spewing your 'woe is me for I am black" drivel.
The difference here is not the media's coverage, but the ANC 'outrage' over Brett Murray showing Zuma with genitals exposed… yet they fail to give Ayanda Mabulu's art the same 'outrage'… double standards from the ANC not the media. The media was covering the ANC's 'disgust and horror' of Murray's art not the artwork itself.
This 'outrage' was a political move to garner support for Jacob Zuma ahead of Manguang, nothing more, nothing less (in my humble opinion).
And to the other chop who commented on the media being the one to blow this issue out of proportion… O please! In the days between City Press running the review (Sunday) and the day the ANC was 'horrified' (Thursday), there was no coverage of the painting. In fact the ANC only got to know of the exhibit after a reporter asked them to comment on the exhibition. So try another one. The media only started covering the Spear after the Thursday. What is it with people and their convenient ignorance of the facts… Geez!
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Well,firstly – Mabulu is a self taught 'outsider' artist.The painting was shown in a little known,out of the way gallery 'Worldart' in Cape Town.It did get pretty good coverage in the Cape Times..as someone above has already mentioned.There is some confusion as to whether the so-called Zuma figure is in fact Zuma.The painting is not very well painted and the message is somewhat uncertain.
Murray is an 'educated' artist who has always chased the limelight – is very well connected in the art world and seems to think that 'clever' political satirical art is a cut above the rest,and a sure way to get your name in highlights(seems he was right).The painting was shown in one of the most renouned galleries in SA – The Goodman Gallery in JHB..which is where the ANC has its nationsl headquarters.This painting is also not very well painted and the message is also somewhat unclear.There is no confusion,however,that the figure is certainly meant to be Zuma.This gave the ANC something to stink about.
Ironically,the 'defaced/dismembered' painting hits home harder than it did before the well documented touch-ups. Zuma now looks like the sinister,deranged,blind and out of control monster he has revealed himself to be while occupying this country's highest office.
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The point of the painting is not originality – unless you are actually at school or 5. Then you can draw an apple-house on a stick and call it original and your teacher will give you a reasonable score or your mom will put it on the fridge with a magnet.
Useful art and communication tap into rich symbols in society. And in order to reference them accurately you must sort of copy them. Writing uses boring old words that are constantly copied and recopied. Does that mean there is no original writing? ANC folks use original pronunciation so maybe you can make the argument.
ANC folks struggle with this though. (But I don't think they mind because they like struggles, they always talk about a struggle). In this picture they only seem to see penis and racism. Racism they also like but I think where the rest of the world links racism to race inequality they say it's when black people are offended.
By the way, does anyone know whether I can take legal action if someone calls me a racist. I think it's a dreadful thing to be and the other day I was called a racist because I said I like The Spear. If racism is so wrong and racist are so horrible – surely being called a racist violates my right to dignity Especially if I'm not really racist.
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