This piece is split into three parts (Part 1 is here, Part 2 is here), and was written for the Critical Distance Blogs of the Round Table. Thanks for taking the time to read ‘A Future of Polygonal Friends’! This was …
This piece is split into three parts (Part 1 is here, Final Comments are here), and was written for the Critical Distance Blogs of the Round Table. In the previous part, we covered the following: Great video game stories need a varied …
This piece is split into three parts (Part 2 is here, Final Comments are here), and was written for the Critical Distance Blogs of the Round Table. Introduction Some people read Playboy for the ‘articles’. Some people watch films for the celebrity …
This review can also be found at The Yorker. Namco Bandai are notoriously bad at releasing their titles in Europe. Localisations can be a lengthy and expensive process, but often many EU releases of all but the biggest titles are just the …
This review can also be found at The Yorker. I caught Gym Class Heroes with their second album, As Cruel as School Children, and it worked out well for my 15 year old self. It took a stance just on the fringe …
This review can also be found at The Yorker (whoops, I overlooked mirroring this one…) It’s been a while since I listened to an album with honestly interesting sampling. One of the things I love about hip-hop (and music inspired by such) …
I wrote this as promo copy for a musical friend of mine, Patient Zero, the album’s fully open to the public now, so go check it out! http://patientzero.bandcamp.com/http://www.youtube.com/user/artistk Many may know Patient Zero from his collaboration with the Internet video group the …
This review can be found at The Yorker, here. I initially found out about Metric though the film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, where they composed one of the many guest songs (the film is, in part, about Canadian indie bands, after …
Introduction While the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is generally lauded as the yearly platform for games publishers to announce their major products, among the journalists and fans that attend and observe every year, there’s a general air of scepticism as to whether …
This article can also be found (with additional entries by other writers) at The Yorker, here. It can sometimes feel that soundtrack composers don’t get a lot of credit. Unlike with the general music industry, there’s comparatively little focus paid to those …
Below are my page designs for Issue 10 of The Lemon Press; constructed in Adobe InDesign. For this issue, guidelines for page layouts were given. All of the text used is of the ownership of the individual(s) that wrote them, and/or of …
This is a long time coming, really. Over the course of my second and 3rd year at University, I assisted in doing layout design work for the local student satire paper; The Lemon Press. Something of a callback to my time at …