Summers Last Moon

Women In The Video Game World

 Feminist Frequency is a video web series that primarily explores representations of women in pop culture such as TV shows, movies, comic books and video games.  Mainstream popular culture has become, for better or worse, our dominant form of storytelling especially in Western cultures and these stories do have a profound influence on our lives, perceptions, values and belief systems — even if we don’t always like to admit it.  So my goal with Feminist Frequency is to explore the tropes, stereotypes and patterns that are

most often associated with female characters in mass media.  Not all tropes are problematic, of course, so I focus specifically on deconstructing recurring patterns that tend to reinforce or amplify preexisting regressive notions or attitudes about women and women’s roles in our larger society.

This video explores how the Damsel in Distress became one of the most widely used gendered clichés in the history of gaming and why the trope has been core to the popularization and development of the medium itself.

This is one good educational view for those who don't really pay attention to video game gender bending.

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The Big Easy Club

Just designed the flyer for the event :) 

Video Game Art

I know everyone is wondering who this artist is and I'm here to break it to you "hes dam cute" and he's packing more than meets the eye. This stunning artist takes everyone's favorite game characters and turn them into master pieces of art that will stun you and make you want to play them all day LONG!!!!

His name is Orioto in Deviantart but his real name is Japan Expo which which has some of the most amazing art pieces i've been seeing in the past days. His work not only makes me want to pick up a crayola but also pick up my game system and make love to it. Nothing like putting a new view to your favorite little monsters out there in the view. Japan Expo (Orioto) lives in Toronto Paris and loves his creation of fan art,final fantasy, and XP Operating system. What else can you ask for in a man?
You can sure check out more of is work at http://orioto.free.fr or his deviant page at http://orioto.deviantart.com/ which im sure you can follow him on twitter on his latest work or what goodies he has in stored for us.

I know i really should post this topic in the ART section so in that case i will post tons of Japan Expo(Orioto) work in the Art Section for those who just want a quick click of what games and fantasy art really comes to life as. The real deal is finding out if he was a girlfriend, or boyfriend hehehe