maybe danah boyd's done something along these lines? she's big on communitas 2.0 type stuff.

Ha! My wife went to school with Danah Boyd. She makes this great sound whenever her name comes up.

I figured, so I got on that shit. I don't think I've bought anything else yet.

They're starting it up again, let's go over what's good/worth it.

Dhex, is Prototype worth $14.99? Alpha Protocol worth $7.50?

I'm guessing "yes" for both?

Will he then use eminent domain to level the mosque that's already near Ground Zero?

Wheeeeee!

Well, High Art has already pretty much accepted video games in the sense that there is interactive electronic art that gets shown in major galleries -- Electroplankton on the DS was in part made by a major Japanese installation artist.

You're just not going to see games intended for commercial release considered as High Art or interactive High Art regarded as "video games".

Well, I'm not looking for legitimacy personally, nor am I really invested in video games on a personal level.

What I'm trying to say (and I blame my total of 7 hours of sleep over the last 72 hours for not doing it very well) is that the reaction to Ebert's article and others like it is because people personally invested in "gaming" desire a certain amount of cultural capital to be attached to their hobby and to have "gaming" have the same sort of "legitimacy" that's associated with more established/entrenched mediums, such as cinema.

So Ebert becomes important because he's exactly the kind of figure that bestows legitimacy by dint of being a kind of cultural arbitrator.

True, I should have shortened that to "legitimacy" because that's what's really in play.

the disconnect, i think is that "art" means "important, meaningful, morally good" and whatnot to the audience

Or "legitimate form of entertainment".

My friend saw him perform when he was touring in support of his blues album. During the set his guitar player referred to him as "the godfather of the blues" causing an audible and involuntary gasp from the audience.

(Along the same lines, he saw Kevin Spacey tour as Bobby Darin as well and said he was really fucking good.)

Up that same alley, there's a group of Finnish Christians who produce not-bad music under the name Paavoharju.

It's really great. I kind of wish I got the deluxe vinyl edition (made by The Designers Republic); hard to justify with el baby being around.

Yeah, that's the only beta that I've heard about, one would think that if there was a d3 beta it would be all over RPS.

Other people certainly agree.

Nah, they're in a different category of odd entirely. It's the difference between pedophiliac seafood enthusiasts and happy hardcore fans who are also hitmen.

Where's Sergei when you need him?

I would think this was a joke except that it's Russian.