Last Friday I was a part of a panel discussion about arcades at NY Comic Con. It was an amazing time. Somehow, at 11 am on a Friday, we filled the room with people eager to hear a talk about arcades. Leaves me feeling hopeful that the movie will receive a lot of attention when it is finished! The panel was moderated by Tal Blevins who has been at IGN since the early days, 13 years and counting! He was the perfect host. Seth Killian was there providing an incredibly unique perspective (As far as I can tell he has one of the coolest jobs in the world). Jamin Warren was beyond articulate, as always. And let me state this here: In 20 years, Kill Screen will be the Rolling Stone of video games. The Harlem Hero, Norman Burgess, was there waxing poetic about Chinatown Fair. And the star of the panel, Henry Cen, “Golden Cen” aka 50 Cen, was wonderfully cynical and cracking up the audience with his musings.
Thank you all for coming and saying hi. I met some new friends and look forward to continuing this discussion!
-Kurt
Rooftop Film's Kill Screen Video Game Film Festival
Rooftop Films and Kill Screen Magazine have put together an evening of short films for Saturday, July 30th in Brooklynn New York. We have put together a work in progress excerpt to show! Our piece introduces Chinatown Fair and one of our favorite people, Anthony Cali Jr, aka HelgenX.
Check out the link for more info!
KILL SCREEN VIDEOGAME FILM FESTIVALSHORT FILM PROGRAM$10 ONLINE OR AT THE DOOR.
8:00 PMSATURDAY JUL 30, 2011
Venue:
THE OLD AMERICAN CAN FACTORY
On the roof of The Old American Can Factory
GOWANUS/SLOPE
232 Third St. at 3rd Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215
F/G to Carroll St. or M/R to Union
I love the Chinatown Fair token. I am working with Shawn and Ryan at Homage on a t-shirt inspired by the token artwork that will be available to those that donate to the Kickstarter project. We are launching the project next week! Yesterday I heard from Jamin at Kill Screen magazine that they would like to put the project on their Kickstarter Curated page, placing the Arcade documentary alongside amazing projects curated by Kill Screen such as the Minecraft documentary, the video game museum MADE, and the Nature of Code Book Project. What an honor!
Kill Screen magazine is so cool. Seriously. It is a beautiful magazine with really well written articles and beautiful art.
