So Max Payne has been released, the deals done, the carpet stained. My feelings are summed up pretty well in this entry here http://paulcorleone.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C1110B18A801A863!553.entry

What hope do I have of appreciating this film, if the CEO of 3d Realms (the developer behind the original Max Payne Games) isn't buying what they've done.
It's clear that if I'm going to see it
1 - I must not pay money for the film
2 - I must not be Sober
3 - Lie to myself that it's just a random action film
Found Miller Scott's thoughts in this article here http://www.edge-online.com/news/3d-realms-bewildered-max-payne-flick

Something which perplexes me around Max Payne as well is the Director's public spitting out the dummy on wanting a PG-13 rating in the states.  He was successful in receiving it but yet here in Aus, we receive MA+, one shot off of our top rating.  Ratings aren't apart by THIS much most of the time.

Smokey Signing Off

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2007/01/before-and-afte.php

An interesting article featuring Brian Eno who is a prominent composer and musician, some of his accolades over the years are collaborations with David Bowie and writing a few songs for U2 for a few. he's also a bit of a pioneer of sorts of Ambient music.  He gave a talk at the UOA in Berlin on generative art, and the implications of Darwin's theory on the flow of information and how it's changed. For those not sure what the hell I'm talking about the idea of generative art is making art create itself, through algorithms. John Cage was the first to go down this path (Eno even talks about it).

He created generative music for SPORE and over the years has made visual generative art.

Smokey signing off