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The Spiral
I first heard of The Spiral at a Solmukohta party, presented as a transmedia thingie about an international art heist combining a TV series, online gaming, social network roleplay and live events (I’m...
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A Game of Thrones
Years ago, friends were raving about this new book series from George R.R. Martin that seemed to be the next best thing in fantasy since Lord of the Rings. I read very little fantasy because so much of...
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Arte and larp, round 2
After a small taste in The Spiral, the Franco-German TV channel Arte goes full-on larp and will organize a Nordic larp in Paris and Berlin on October 29th. The goal is to roleplay a sequel to the...
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Closing the Spiral
After my initial comments, here are pictures and further personal impressions on the transmedia experiment that closed a few weeks ago. The Series Watching The Spiral was really fun. In many ways,...
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Cagliostro
I love mashups, even (or especially) when they err on the side of camp. So when I learned that a salvaged copy of the 1929 silent movie Cagliostro was released on DVD with two soundtracks, one...
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Tournée larp by Arte: the movie from the larp from the movie
As Arte is playing Tournée tonight, the movie of the larp (explanations here) was released on Arte’s website today. It’s in French, but you get to see how the game looked like. For an in-depth review...
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Dangerous Liaisons with a 50s-60s twist
In 1959, Roger Vadim released Les liaisons dangereuses 1960, a then-modern adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’ epistolary novel (read Wikipedia for a plot summary). The director alone made the movie a...
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Afroasiatik – a kung-fu hip-hop larp – recap part 1
Warning: long posts ahead. Read the short version here. Afroasiatik was a French-Swiss larp run in the zen garden of Aigle, Switzerland on Sunday 25th August 2013 with pre-game workshops on Saturday...
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Afroasiatik – a kung-fu hip-hop larp – recap part 2
Warning: long posts ahead. Read the short version here. Part 1: the original reason for the game, a history of French hip-hop and its Asian influences Part 2: how inspiration sources were used to build...
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Afroasiatik – a kung-fu hip-hop larp – recap part 3
Warning: long post ahead. Read the short version here. Part 1: the original reason for the game, a history of French hip-hop and its Asian influences Part 2: how inspiration sources were used to build...
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