Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Player verb relationships in The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt
design thoughts: Thoughts on finishing The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt [1/21/16] I recently finished playing through The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. I haven’t been this thoroughly obsessed with a game since Pokemon Blue. There are a few things that I find extraordinary about The Witcher 3, and that both kept me coming back…
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Dream I Tell You
Dream I Tell You is a trance-theatre performance conceived by Ben Gansky that performed July 26th-August 4th (Friday-Sunday) at Cloud City in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Inspired by hallucinatory experiences in Oaxaca, Mexico and Prague, Gansky adapted the performance’s text from dream journals recorded by varied sources including the writers Georges Perec and Helene Cixous, the Swedish mystic…
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Silent Film
Silent Film is a three-part interactive live-scored film-cum-site-specific-dance conceived with Eric Powell Holm, Katie Melby, John Egan, and Ben Lewis. It performed at Cloud City in April 2013. direction from Eric Powell Holm interaction design, writing, film editing, scenic and lighting elements by Ben Gansky performed by Katie Melby and John Egan costume design by…
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Rise and Fall
[portfolio_slideshow] Rise and Fall is an adaptation of Brecht/Weill/Hauptmann’s opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, with more blood, puke, weed, and beer. It comes back around every so often to Cloud City. You should catch it when it does. Direction Eric Powell Holm Sound/lighting/set design Ben Gansky Adaptation Ian Storey
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10s videos
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the new mythology
A piece I wrote while in Oaxaca was published by the always interesting contactprojectjournal. Thanks, guys. Link here.
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hecho en mexico
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Elsewhere Seder: Occupy Passover
[portfolio_slideshow] Taking as a point of departure the concept of a ritual meal in which every aspect of the evening provides metaphorical value in examining and re-telling the story of liberation from bondage, Elsewhere Seder: Occupy Passover was a meal-event that aimed to elaborate and deepen understanding and engagement with contemporary liberation narratives from around…
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WYLD PLAN
See: The Wild Plan. [portfolio_slideshow]
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In Conversation with Adam Curtis, Part I | e-flux
In Conversation with Adam Curtis, Part I | e-flux. I first read the name Adam Curtis in an article about Punchdrunk Theatre. Punchdrunk is the British company responsible for one of the most buzzed-about shows in NYC in the last several years–Sleep No More. No, I haven’t seen it (yet). Yes, I am…
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