Making new worlds with gaming collective Babycastles:
New York game collective Babycastles hosted the Jean-Claude Van Jam last week, where designers had to invent new games out of old action films.
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Syed Salahuddin cofounded Babycastles with Kunal Gupta in 2009 in the basement of The Silent Barn, a D.I.Y. performance space in Brooklyn. Babycastles was “the first permanent independent arcade,” Salahuddin told me last week when we met at NYU-Poly. “What happened was we basically started this thing where the entire indie game scene from New York would come and converge and talk and hang out. We didn’t even know that existed. We were really shocked. And so we became a place where people just hung out and met other people like them.” More
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on August 22nd, 2012 2:03pmOur group spent an hour and a half smelling, touching, covering and closing our eyes, tasting, and walking with a heightened awareness of all our senses. The event was a “sensewalk” called “Everything Is New” that Gutierrez created for Elastic City (the first of four sensewalks he is leading this summer). Elastic City was founded by artist Todd Shalom in 2010 to commission artists from various mediums to make and lead urban walks—not walking tours, but walks. More
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on June 21st, 2012 2:45pm“If you’ve got a buddy named Jack, and you see him on an airplane, you don’t want to yell…?” “Hi, Jack!” Fred—by day a speaker and seminar-leader for corporations, by night a Rodney Dangerfield impersonator (really)—removed miniature PayDay bars from his oversize black fanny pack and lobs them in the direction of whoever answered correctly. More
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on May 3rd, 2012 3:55pmThe Red Hook Criterium is an unofficial bike race that, in its five-year existence, has grown from a late-night ride for locals around the potholed industrial neighborhood to an international phenomenon drawing sponsorship from Eastern Mountain Sports and competitors from as far away as Italy and Spain. The race has expanded past Brooklyn's borders with an annual RHC Milano beginning in 2010. More
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on March 28th, 2012 9:47am
