Joel Burgess: Skyrim's Modular Level Design - GDC 2013 Transcript. Originally presented @ Level Design in a Day, GDC 2013 Co-Authored and Co-Presented w/Nate PurkeypileSlides available here.
While many developers understand the basic concepts behind a modular system, and some have dabbled in it for a project or two, very few have made a career out of it. That’s exactly what Nate and I have done, however. Our current project will be our fifth together in the near-decade we have known and worked with each other. Scarlett Hooft Graafland. Dreamscapes: The Fantastical Photographs of Lieko Shiga. As the old expression “a canary in a coal mine” suggests, the small songbirds have long been a symbol of a type of early-detection system — a way of indicating something that might otherwise remain unknown.
And just as the old coal mine canaries alerted miners to invisible gases and fumes, the camera is capable of capturing moments that might pass unrevealed, or undiscovered. The striking pictures in Japanese artist Lieko Shiga’s series, Canary — currently on display at the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam FOAM — references this powerful metaphor with images that are not immediately recognizable, nor easily understood, but that are nevertheless laden with meaning. The Amsterdam show is comprised of an extensive body of work first published as a book in 2007 — a book that has since become something of a classic among photobook collectors. Shiga’s work is strongly reminiscent of the black and white photography of Masatoshi Naito. Lieko Shiga is a Japanese fine-art photographer. Tropicana: An Abandoned Tropical Indoor Swimming Pool.