In Real Life

The Best Film Of The Year Didn’t Need Talking. Do Video Games Need Graphics?

Last night at the Academy Awards, a silent film won best picture. Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist, a biopic about film star George Valentin, was itself a classic silent film — for the most part, it has no sound effects or dialogue, just music and on-screen action.


January 12, 2012
In Real Life

A Rock Band-Style Game For The Blind

Music isn’t a visual art-form, and many amazing musicians, from Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles to Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Roul Midón have created incredible sounds despite (or possibly even enhanced by) their inability to see.