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• And now for a second BGG-related post: BGG has used Livestream in the past (but will not in the future) for its livestream game demonstrations from Gen Con and Spiel, and since Livestream has reported being hacked, I'd suggest that you take whatever action is needed should you be one of those who uses the same password on multiple sites.
• Three former CIA employees play Gale Force Nine's Homeland: The Game and report on the experience on Slate: "We may have nearly two decades of intelligence experience among us — including time spent working on counterterrorism issues both in the field and back at Langley — but we spent more than an hour trying to make heads or tails of the game's rules and components. There are six different types of playing cards to master, two different figurines, four different tokens that added up to...something. The cards use terminology we used in our former careers — assets, threat analysis, official reprimands — but they meant different things here than in real life."
• The Onion's A.V. Club polled readers about 2015's best and worst movie, book, television show, etc., and the only board game to place on the list of games was Pandemic Legacy.
• As a publicity stunt, the creators of Cards Against Humanity are polling the 150,000 supporters of its Eight Sensible Gifts for Hanukkah to see whether it should cut up a Picasso print into 150,000 pieces (thereby allowing each supporters to own a piece of a Picasso) or whether it should donate the print to the Art Institute of Chicago. Gabriel Roth responds on Slate by yawning and giving a "Is that all you got?" in response:
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The idea, I guess, is that some people will be scandalized by the idea of "an original 1962 Picasso" being destroyed ("This is an outrage! Donate it to the Art Institute," reads one of the ballot options), just as some people are scandalized by the idea of randomly combining phrases like "date rape" and "a midget shitting into a bucket" in a party game, while other people — people who find themselves unable to provoke a more complicated reaction in their fellow humans than shock and offense but who still need to be reassured that they exist, that they're not disembodied wraiths passing unnoticed across the surface of the world — will view that potential outrage as an opportunity for a self-soothing act of assertive hostility.
But unlike a racist card game, this chop-up-a-Picasso stunt isn't worth getting upset about. Tête de Faune is "an original 1962 Picasso" print — one of a run of 50 signed lino-cuts. The Art Institute of Chicago would stick it in the basement and barely send you a thank-you note.
If you want to annoy people by destroying a work of art, don't pick one of a set of 50 prints from the waning years of the most prolific artist of all time. Cut up the Demoiselles d'Avignon or something! Go big or go home!
Whether a publicity stunt can be judged successful is determined by how much publicity it receives, and I realize that I'm contributing to that tally. In its own article on the stunt, The Chicago Tribune notes that in 1994 the pop band The KLF burned nearly one million pounds in cash, royalties for its work, as part of an art project. (Wikipedia has details on the project and resulting film, Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid.)
But unlike a racist card game, this chop-up-a-Picasso stunt isn't worth getting upset about. Tête de Faune is "an original 1962 Picasso" print — one of a run of 50 signed lino-cuts. The Art Institute of Chicago would stick it in the basement and barely send you a thank-you note.
If you want to annoy people by destroying a work of art, don't pick one of a set of 50 prints from the waning years of the most prolific artist of all time. Cut up the Demoiselles d'Avignon or something! Go big or go home!
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