Category Archives: art

Jul
03
2011

Favorite chiptunes

I have already written a bit about the demoscene and chiptune in the past, but I had to write a separate post about these two tunes I keep coming back to whenever I need a fair dose of nostalgia and optimism. I haven’t heard a lot of chiptune, nor do I know much about the [...]

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Jun
23
2011

Manifiesto zapatista

Politics doesn’t interest me at all, but I was just listening to Manu Chao’s Clandestino for the umpteenth time, and this quote from “Welcome to Tijuana” rang a bell as much now as anytime I’ve heard it before. Nuestra lucha es por el respeto a nuestro derecho a gobernar y gobernarnos, y el mal gobierno [...]

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Jun
11
2010

Demoscene

It still surprises me that not many people working in, or have interest in, IT have been introduced to what is probably the best fusion of tech and art, ever since the invention of the modern day PC. I’m talking, of course, about the demoscene. To spare you the click out, here’s a definition from [...]

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