by Jason T. Kocher March 27th, 2011 - Culture » Video Games »
Saturday Night. Union Square, New York City Best Buy. Nintendo spontaneously decides to launch their new stereoscopic 3D handheld video game system, 3DS, so that they had an excuse to close down the Best Buy and deny my very urgent need for its public bathroom. DAMN YOU NINTENDO! After mad-dashing through the closing minutes of […]
by Jason T. Kocher January 11th, 2011 - Culture » Film and TV »
It is fair to say that my expectations for TRON: Legacy were not only high, but also highly…highly unrealistic. While visions of sugar plums dance in most people’s heads, the candied traffic in mine was mostly dominated by X-rated day-glo digital orgies where the beautiful screensaver innards of TRON hummed so forcefully with a fine […]
by Jason T. Kocher March 13th, 2010 - Culture » Film and TV »
The original TRON, released in 1982, was a spectacle of special effects and a childhood favorite. Yes…at the age of one, I was keenly aware of its groundbreaking technical innovations and a great fan of its exploration of video game artificial intelligence and the ethereal subtext of the fragility of all our own realities. Of […]
by Jason T. Kocher July 14th, 2009 - Culture » Film and TV »
I recently visited relatives in the lovely little state of Maryland. While there, we conducted a reconnaissance mission at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, studying the tactics of the indisputably evil and nigh unstoppable menace that we call Jellyfish. Turns out…the gelatinous critters just float around in glass cylinders. Perhaps my fears were overblown. Surely, […]