links for 2006-09-06

• Layered architecture
  Workspace Unlimited’s latest work IMPLANT is both a networked virtual world and a physical installation situated at the Vooruit, a performance venue in Ghent (Belgium).
  (tags: games architecture virtual)
• Midnight Eye focus: Kinji Fukasaku – truth, hope and violence
  nternational acclaim and recognition for his work may be far less than that received by Akira Kurosawa, Seijun Suzuki or Shohei Imamura, but there has been no director in the history of Japanese cinema whose films have been as consistently successful as K
  (tags: film cinema japan)
• Screens – Web Video – Virginia Heffernan – Arts – New York Times Blog
  More lonelygirl15. Because news breaks, even when fevers don’t.
  (tags: video youtube viral nytimes)
• Online Game, Made in U.S., Seizes the Globe – New York Times
  …while games stamped “Made in the U.S.A.” have often struggled abroad, especially in Asia, World of Warcraft has become the first truly global video-game hit since Pac-Man in the early 1980’s.
  (tags: WoW games asia)
• English Russia » Choomuhzeek, the Internet hero
  Apparently this was a big viral video hit in Russia.
  (tags: russia viral video)