Machinima: a portmanteau of "machine" and "cinema," machinima is a broad genre of animation chracterized by the use of videogame engines as 3D rendering platforms. A classic example of machinima is the video series "Red vs. Blue", which is filmed and about the game HALO.
"This Spartan Life", TSL, also filmed in halo, is at the top of my list of favorite machinima. It has one various awards within the machinima community, and has a rather original format for a machinima: most machinima are science fiction chronicles, TSL is actually a talk show. Topics on the show generally are focused around the general theme of emergent media particularly machinima, and are not above touching on the postmodern. TSL guests run the gamut from media theorists to multimedia artists and video game designers. They even got Malcolm Maclaren. Here's one of their most recent interviews, it's pretty good: http://www.thisspartanlife.com/1004_mod3.html
One other reason I like the show is that they feature some excellent 8 Bit music, AKA Chiptunes. More on chiptunes later, but for now feel free to check out the playlists available through TSL at http://www.thisspartanlife.com/8bit.shtml or go straight to the source and check out on of the most active labels, http://www.8bitpeoples.com (their entire discography is available for free download, but don't be afraid to show them some support).
I guess i'm just that big of a nerd.
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