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We recently announced a partnership between Pitchfork and the videogame arts and culture magazine Kill Screen. We're going to be highlighting some of Kill Screen's most interesting content here on Pitchfork on a regular basis. This week, we have two pieces by Kill Screen co-founder Jamin Warren. The first is an interview with John Sharp from the Savannah College of Art and Design, who teaches an art history course specifically geared toward game designers. The second is a talk called "Say How You Play" that Jamin gave at the Game Developers Conference 2011.
"Game Designers Want to Be Artists Without Knowing What That Means"
by Jamin Warren; illustration by Daniel Purvis
The "games as art" debate has fortunately waned a bit. Good riddance, I say. But a broader interest in videogames as a visual, interactive medium is certainly welcome. At least, that's how John Sharp, who teaches at the Savannah College of Art and Design, is approaching games. For the last year or so, Sharp has been appearing at conferences to give a crash course in art history for game designers. We were curious why.
Why did you start talking about art and games?
My main motivation for doing it was to raise the level of discourse among developers wanting to be artists without knowing what that meant. A lot of developers have this romantic notion of what art is. They're rooted in a 19th-century idea that it's a form of expression and tied to public perceptions. That's not what art is anymore.
So how would you define it then?
There are a number of different ways to approach this, including the perspective of Berys Gaut, who proposed a cluster concept for defining art, which reads much more like a medical checklist for diagnosis; or a functionalist perspective, in which art serves a particular purpose; or a proceduralist perspective typified by George Dickie, in which something qualifies as art if it fits within the conventions of the contemporary art community and market of a given time and place.
For me, I use something closest to Dickie's proceduralist definition: Something is art if it the person or persons creating it intend it to be art, and if the people trafficking in art consider it as such, and if the people critically evaluating it consider it art, and if the people consuming through purchase or observation consider it art. In other words: If the cultural ecosystem of the contemporary art world considers something art, then I consider it art. Everything else is just people simply using a loose definition encompassing things they like or think are well made.
Why do you think game designers are so misinformed?
I'm generalizing, but game developers are coming out of computer science or a different side of universities, if they've studied art at all. At most, they've had one or two art history classes and most of those are boring. People haven't taken time to understand what it means to be an artist. I'm still learning, and I've been studying art since I was 18. I'm 43 now. I'm recalibrating my understanding constantly.
Are there any developers that you think have a better understanding?
Eric Zimmerman and Nathalie Pozzi, who have been doing Sixteen Tons and Flatlands. They're fairly sophisticated in terms of how they engage with the discourse. Those are great examples. Mary Flanagan and the work she does, she puts forth as art. I think if it ever gets shipped, the Bill Viola and Tracy Fullerton project. It's an interesting project because it takes Viola aesthetics and Tracy figuring out what it means to extend those ideas into an interactive form.
Right. But those are all academics. Are there any others?
I would say Mark Essen is another example of sophisticated things that are being embraced. Then there are people like Jodi, Cory Arcangel, and Eddo Stern—who are making games, but they don't embrace the gameness of games. They're coming at it from the art side.
Why is that a problem?
It's not a problem as much as it's a difference of opinion. I've set up the idea that games are a cultural form that demand serious attention. Part of that means working with what are the innate properties of games—that they have rules and player goals and interactivity. There's some sort of outcome and all the various parts of what it means to be a game. Jodi and Cory use the technology of games, but they're not as interested in working inside the form.
Jodi has the most famous piece of game art out there, and that's taking the Wolfenstein 3D engine and swapping out the graphics so the game becomes largely unplayable. It's a machine for generating imagery rather than a play experience. Or take Super Mario Clouds, where Cory modified an NES cartridge and removed all the graphics except the clouds.
To me, as an art historian, that's a disruptive gesture to the gameness of the game. But it's not trying to use the unique qualities of games to create an experience the same way that Eric or Tracy might. I don't think that should mean that these folks should stop what they are doing. That's the punk rocker in me, that loves the way they're tweaking games; but from the point of view of someone who wants to advance the cause of games, I see them as something different. They're not trying to work with games in a constructive way.
From an art historian's perspective, are there any promising antecedents of work that does embrace games?
One of my favorite examples was this project called Open Score. This was part of the 9 Evenings projects in the '60s. Robert Rauschenberg was a well-known painter and Billy Klüver was an employee of Bell Labs. They had two people—a tennis player and then the painter Frank Stella—play a game at night. The racket had sensors and would play a musical note and slightly dim the light. As they played, they were essentially writing a piece of music but also slowly impacting their ability to play the game. Eventually, they couldn't see what they were doing anymore. Games can be embraced with a value of place—it's about artists exploring the potential of a game.
I see parallels between where games are now and art in the 15th century. Back then, people didn't recognize the impact of sculpture and painting, but they were struggling with the terminology. I feel we're in the game Renaissance. Whether it plays out that way is up to the game development community, but also it's about how discourse gets going in society. With the Renaissance, it was the painters, but also the patrons and theorists and the people writing books on technique. People are involved in the process of what became an important part of culture. If things continue to shape up, games will be the most important cultural forum.
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It's the agonizing case of the little cross that could.
First erected on Sunrise Rock in 1934 by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in memory of the dead of all wars, the small remote symbol - hidden away in California's Mojave Desert - finds itself at the center of an ideological war between the ACLU and a handful of military heroes.
The ACLU, or American Civil Liberties Union, succeeded in obtaining a ruling in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals holding that the familiar icon topping Sunrise Rock violated the doctrine of separation of church and state. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case, Ken Salazar v. Frank Buono.
A lot of Marines will be following that case and the arguments laid down in a brief to the High Court by the Thomas Moore Law Center and its ally the Individual Rights Foundation. Meanwhile, the Sunrise Rock cross remains covered by a court ordered shroud - in case a passing hiker or off-road-vehicle enthusiast in this remote desert terrain might take offense.
Fallen Marine comrades have memorial plagues placed at the site of another cross long under assault by the ACLU - the cross at Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial. Should the Supreme Court affirm the Ninth Circuit's ruling re the Sunrise Rock cross, the cross site at Mt. Soledad, which has been the subject of much litigation over the past twenty years, will be newly threatened as well.
The heroes whose memorial plaques are under assault include: Vietnam prisoner of war Rear Admiral Jeremiah Denton, USN (Ret.) and Marine Majors Michael D. Martino and Gerald Bloomfield, III, both of whom were killed in combat in Iraq on November 2, 2005.
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"It has never been thought either possible or desirable to enforce a regime of total separation. Nor does the Constitution require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any."
Richard Thompson, the President and Chief Counsel for the Law Center, believes in the import of those words and commented, "Through our brief and the compelling stories of the war heroes we represent, we want the court to feel the devastating impact removing crosses will have on those who have sacrificed so much for this country.
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According to language in the introduction to the law center's brief, Jeremiah Denton is a retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, a veteran of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, a prisoner of war from July 18, 1965 to February 13, 1973, a former U.S. Senator from the State of Alabama, and also serves as the chairman of the Thomas More Law Center's Advisory Board.
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NZXT Respire T20 CPU Cooler Review - Specifications, Availability and PricingNZXT brings forth a couple of wallet friendly coolers with its new Respire Series of coolers. Have a look at what the Respire T20 has in store.
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The Respire T20 from NZXT uses three pipes in its construction. The middle one is 8mm in diameter, while the two outer ones are 6mm in diameter to get as much heat pipe across the IHS as possible. To the top of these pipes there is an aluminum base that is used to accommodate the mounting hardware that uses epoxy to secure it to the pipes. The pipes then bend into a vertical alignment and have 48, 0.4mm thick, aluminum fins that are offset to angle slightly as the fan passes air through them. At the top, the half of a fin has the NZXT name on it and levels the top from the offset of the lower fins. Through the top come the three pipes on each side as the little bits of copper remnants are left exposed. Dimensionally the T20 stands 160mm tall, and is 124mm wide with the fan clips in use, and is only 65mm front to back including the 25mm of fan in play there.
To cool the stack of aluminum fins NZXT has employed the services of the DF1202512SELN 120mm fan. This fan is powered with a 3-pin fan connection and will run at full speed unless resisted with the included adapter. At full speed, this fan will spin near 1800 RPM while delivering 68.8 CFM and 2.26 mmH2O of static pressure and only with 34 dBA of noise. With the adapter in place, speed slows to 1300RPM with slightly less than 50CFM and only 26.5 dBA of noise. There is also the use of plastic fan clips that securely mount to this fan, and secure just as tight to the sides of the tower. Using rubber anti-vibration pads inside allows for less vibration from the fans into the body of the cooler to help keep annoying rattles and vibrations at bay.
Now I said right up front that the Respire Series of coolers are economically correct for these harsh times. Looking back at some of the news releases of the T20 we are about to see there was an MSRP set at $29.95 for the T20. Now I did struggle a bit, even to find an e-tailer that is showing current stock of the Respire T20, but I was able to find at least one at the moment, and likely there will be more by the time you read this. I located it at Amazon.com, and at a listing currently of $29.99 with free shipping. It doesn't look like there is any price gauging for the holiday season either.
At this price point the CM Hyper 212 Plus/Evo and the Xigmatek Gaia as other offerings in this range come to mind. So let's get to it and see what NZXT offers in this compact Respire T20 CPU cooler.
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World Cup 2011
Kenyan cricket continues to regress
After their World Cup misadventure, Kenya remains an object lesson for other Associates of just how easily things can go wrong
Martin Williamson
March 21, 2011
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Kenya travelled to the World Cup with the lowest expectations of the five Associates after a fairly dismal build-up in which they had shown only glimpses of the form which led them to the 2003 semi-finals and made them, for a time, the leading Associate country. Realistically, their aims were to try to beat Canada, the other Associate in their group, and possibly give Zimbabwe a good contest. They failed in both, losing to Canada by five wickets (two late wickets gave the result a more even slant than the reality) and Zimbabwe by a whopping 161 runs. The four games against Full Members were all woefully one-sided. By the end, all too familiar stories had started to circulate about rows between various player factions and the coach. The only professional - financial at least - Associate side was again behaving in a thoroughly unprofessional way and sadly the whole edifice could fall apart on their return home.
There were no real highs to speak of, although at least against Australia the Kenyan batting offered a little fight even if they were never close to pulling off an upset. For a brief period Collins Obuya (98*) and Tanmay Mishra (72) allowed them to dream, but you felt the Australians had quite a bit in reserve in case the Kenyans began to threaten. And that was about as good as it got.
Plenty of them to choose from, but their opening match against New Zealand, a side with painful memories of the subcontinent following recent dismal tours, set the tone for the rest of Kenya's World Cup. Jimmy Kamande won the toss, batted, and Kenya were blown away for 69 - their worst total in a World Cup - in 23.5 overs. New Zealand's openers knocked off the runs in eight overs and it was downhill from there. What was supposed to be a grand farewell for the veteran Steve Tikolo turned out - as predicted in the team preview - to be the dampest of squibs - 44 runs in five innings. Off the field he was, not for the first time, cited as being involved in the disagreements with the coach. He deserved a more dignified farewell after all he had achieved but this was one - some might say two - World Cups too far.
The glimmers of hope that there are come from the youngsters in the squad, even if Mishra was the only one to convert promise into achievement. A year ago Kenya's selectors toyed with dumping the old guard and throwing the kids in at the deep end. In the event, they decided against that, but on the showing in these six games, they could hardly have done any worse.
Where to start. The batsmen lacked application and technique, the bowlers provided far too many loose deliveries to ever be able to peg back even more moderate opponents. The old guard failed to deliver, and the youngsters simply lacked the experience to cope, and as a unit they never appeared to realise or accept what is needed to play cricket at this level. If Eldine Baptiste stands aside as coach then he will not be the first to have tried and failed to turn around a Kenyan side that too often gives the impression it believes it is the finished article.
|"What was supposed to be a grand farewell for the veteran Steve Tikolo turned out to be the dampest of squibs - 44 runs in five innings"
It is hard to see where Kenyan cricket goes from here and the decline which set in seven years ago risks becoming terminal. Since beating Canada in the opening match of the 2007 World Cup, Kenya have lost 14 successive 50-over matches in major tournaments (World Cups and the ICC World Cricket League Division One).
What the World Cup underlined is that keeping a group of players on full-time contracts with a decent coach is a waste of time if they are not given good opposition to play on a regular basis. Cricket Kenya finds it impossible to attract anything other than other Associates and a few Indian state sides, as well as the occasional series against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. It's simply not enough for the younger players to learn and improve. In that regard Kenya is no different from other Associates, but they feel the effects far more.
The board is trying. There are attempts to establish a domestic structure which will at least give a decent standard of cricket for the leading players, and the school structure is slowly beginning to bear fruit, but what is happening now is largely a result of a decade of neglect.
Kenya have slipped from the No. 1 Associate in 2003 to probably not even being in the top five now. Aside from Netherlands, Ireland and Canada, they are also trailing in the wake of Scotland and Afghanistan, and there is nothing to suggest they are likely to arrest the decline any time soon.
What is needed is a complete clear-out. It is also time for Cricket Kenya to look at whether it can maintain a professional side which has achieved so little.
Kenya remains an object lesson for other Associates of just how easily things can go wrong. However much money the ICC pumps in, success is not guaranteed, especially without the right level of exposure to good opposition, a strong grass-roots structure and players all pulling in the same direction.
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This invention relates generally to ceramic matrix composite structures and more particularly to a ceramic matrix composite airfoil such as may be used in a gas turbine engine.
The design of the trailing edge of an airfoil is preferably dictated by aerodynamic considerations. For improved aerodynamic performance, it is commonly preferred to provide a thin trailing edge for a gas turbine airfoil. However, thinness may result in weakness, and there are often structural limitations that limit the trailing edge design and necessitate the use of an aerodynamic design that is less than optimal.
It is known to use ceramic matrix composite (CMC) materials for airfoils and other components of gas turbine engines. CMC materials advantageously provide higher temperature capability than metal and a high strength to weight ratio. However, modern gas turbine engines have operating temperatures that may exceed even the high temperature limits of known oxide and non-oxide ceramic materials. Accordingly, a layer of insulating material may be used, which further exacerbates the trailing edge thickness issue, and/or active cooling channels may be provided, which further exacerbates the strength issue.
These and other advantages of the invention will be more apparent from the following description in view of the drawings that show:
An improved CMC airfoil 30 as may be utilized in a gas turbine engine is illustrated in partial cross-section in
In one fabrication method, the inner wrap 36 and outer wrap 40 are each sufficiently close-wound so that a subsequent matrix infiltration process or in-situ supplied matrix slurry substantially fills each of them, and the voids that are typically present in the trailing edge of a CMC airfoil are concentrated into a central gap region of the trailing edge. Removable or fugitive tooling may be used to define the central gap region. That gap region is then filled with filler material 44 to substantially eliminate such voids. The filler material 44 results in an essentially solid trailing edge portion 31 upon completion of the matrix impregnation process.
The terms �substantially filled� and �essentially solid� and the like are used herein to describe the condition where no structurally significant void remains following the matrix impregnation process with the exception of any purposefully formed voids such as cooling passages. For example, the airfoil 30 can be said to have an essentially solid trailing edge portion 31 as seen in the cross-section of
In another example, the filler material 44 is formed initially to its predefined shape and is then inserted into the lay-up, thus serving to define and control the compaction and geometry of the fiber plies 36, 40. The pre-processed filler material 44 is used as a mandrel for forming the outer trailing edge portion. The filler material 44 may be further pre-configured with features such as cooling passages that would otherwise require difficult or impossible post-process machining steps. More intricate features are possible using this approach, thus allowing for more effective cooling of the trailing edge 31. The filler material 44 may be formed to include a protrusion 48 of any desired shape that extends into one of the inner wrap 36 or outer wrap 38 to a predetermined depth. Furthermore, the prefabricated filler material 44 may be pre-processed to an intermediate stage and infiltrated and/or co-fired with the added fiber wraps 36, 40. In the case where the prefabricated filler 44 is partially densified or sintered, additional matrix processing steps required for the inner and outer wraps 36, 40 will serve to further densify the filler 44, thus resulting in a higher thermal conductivity material which aids in the cooling of the region.
In order to minimize the thickness of the trailing edge portion 31, the outer wrap bend radius Ro may be kept at a minimum value that is consistent with proper handling of the CMC material. For typical CMC materials utilized for gas turbine airfoils, a minimum bend radius may be approximately 0.125 inches for fiber aligned with the chord of the airfoil. This minimum bend may be effectively reduced by 50% by changing the fiber angle, using lower denier fiber tows, or accepting some fiber damage in the bend radius. The inner trailing edge portion 38 is typically the region of the trailing edge portion 31 that experiences peak interlaminar stress conditions. The stress levels in this region are a function of, and are inversely proportional to, the bend radius Ri. Thus, it may be desired to maintain Ri to be greater than Ro, although in some embodiment they may be the same. In one embodiment Ro may be selected to be 0.125 to 0.25 inches.
The embodiment of
The cross-sectional view of
When forming the filler material of a CMC material, the filler material fiber ply orientations are not limited to being the same orientation as the inner and outer plies. For example, the filler material may be laid up to have fiber orientations that are perpendicular or transverse to those of the wrapped fibers. Multiple layers having different weaves may be used in the filler material, such as illustrated by the airfoil 70 of
While various embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described herein, it will be obvious that such embodiments are provided by way of example only. Numerous variations, changes and substitutions will occur to those of skill in the art without departing from the invention herein. Accordingly, it is intended that the invention be limited only by the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
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Angela Wasley, aka Nancy Nightshade, founded Christchurch's first burlesque troupe, Ayla's Angels, in 2009.
Back then, burlesque was only just catching on in Canterbury and the troupe was mostly made up of circus performers and dancers.
Wasley, an ex-circus performer and professional clown, started the Angels almost accidentally to fill a gap in the Otago University Orientation Week entertainment schedule.
The industry has grown since then, with performances on offer from a range of Christchurch troupes almost every weekend. Shows have been staged in restaurants including Burgers and Beers and has become a regular feature at Wunderbar in Lyttelton.
Wasley said the Christchurch burlesque scene was very competitive.
With a reduced number of venues and at least half-a-dozen troupes operating in the city, the Angels have had to cut their shows to monthly or bi-monthly to avoid killing the industry.
"There's so few venues now, I actually need to employ my own sound guy and technician to do shows," Wasley said.
Wasley and a few of the other troupes try to book their shows and venues well in advance to prevent too much pile-up.
"Sometimes we feel like it is quite saturated," she said. "Wellington and Christchurch are quite flooded.
"But, in saying that, the audience levels haven't dropped off yet."
Internationally, burlesque ranges in performance style from cabaret to risque striptease.
Wasley said while Christchurch had embraced burlesque, much of what was on offer was at the more conservative end of the scale.
"The thing I noticed most after the quakes was that people really needed a laugh," Wasley said. "Our first show after February 2011, 300 people showed up."
Ayla's Angels put on a show tending more towards comedy and the art of the tease.
"We like to say it's the kind of show you can bring your grandmother to," she said. "When people think of burlesque they think of nudity, but we're more cabaret.
"I think a good performance leaves the audience not seeing what they thought they were going to see - leave them hanging."
While a lot of the entertainment on offer is more conservative, Wasley said there was a market for more edgy shows in Christchurch.
Burlesque troupes have opened for heavy punk rock bands and some performers have regular spots at strip clubs like Calendar Girls.
Wasley plans to start an open-mic night for burlesque in Christchurch next year.
Burly Unplugged will offer amateur performers the chance to show their stuff in an open-mic environment.
"We've already got girls lining up for this," Wasley said.
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Industry watchers said small OS players such as Tizen, Firefox and Windows will increase their presence as demand for low-end smartphones increases, especially in developing countries.
Samsung's Tizen smartphones will reportedly roll out first in emerging countries including Russia and India, in an apparent move to avoid head-on competition with handsets running on premium operating systems - Google's Android and Apple's iOS - generally targeted to advanced markets.
Its first-generation smart watch Galaxy Gear and smart glasses Gear Blink will also reportedly sport the Tizen OS, an open-source platform developed in part by Samsung.
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Mozilla's Firefox, known for its open-source browser, has also expanded its mobile OS clout through its smartphone partners such as ZTE, Alcatel, Huawei and LG Electronics.
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