Comments on: Pictures from the Phront

By: Grand Text Auto » Have You Seen This Man?

Grand Text Auto » Have You Seen This Man? — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:06:57 +0000

[...] xA will recall that Chris told us why, spawning further discussion (1 2). Also read about our visit last June at Chris’ annual gathering.)

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By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:46:19 +0000

There's a new interview with Chris in the latest issue of ArmChair Arcade, including a discussion of Trust and Betrayal.

By: Brian Moriarty

Brian Moriarty — Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:53:54 +0000

For the uninitiated: Gould died in 1983. :)

I was thinking more of the arc of his career. His early years as an eccentric yet highly successful concert pianist. His bizarre but indisputably brilliant interpretations of classic repertoire, his curmudgeonly manner, his fiendish delight in slaughtering sacred cows. Then his sudden, self-imposed exile from the concert world, preferring to move North to avoid the spotlight, concentrating on private studio work, and lonely musings about how technology would change the art and very meaning of music. His offbeat clothing and odd personal habits. His love of cats.

And, again, that remarkable physical resemblance.

On the other hand, I am not aware that Gould ever complained about mountain lions eating his emus.

By: Chris Crawford

Chris Crawford — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 05:12:29 +0000

Brian Moriarty opines: “I have lately become intrigued by the eerie parallels, including the amazing physical similarities, between Chris Crawford and Glenn Gould.”

Would that similarity lie in the intellectual moribundity Glenn and I have shared for the last 20 years?

By: michael

michael — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 21:41:17 +0000

The Phrontisterion 6 report is available. It includes Rick Smith's analysis of Facade.

By: Brian Moriarty

Brian Moriarty — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:17:21 +0000

I have lately become intrigued by the eerie parallels, including the amazing physical similarities, between Chris Crawford and Glenn Gould.

Has anyone else noticed this? :)

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:08:14 +0000

Seeing the 23-year-old photo at the top of the post, I think it's appropriate to repeat Chris' quote that I reported in the AIIDE conference notes from a month ago: "I offer myself as a warning of the idea of the Renaissance Man... Being a half-assed artist and half-assed programmer doesn’t make me a Renaissance Man, it just makes me a total ass." :-) At Phrontisterion last weekend, Michael and I asked Chris, "but if you've got two half-assed artists and half-assed programmers, do all those halves add up to one total Renaissance Man?" [Update: Chris' AIIDE speech, Artists and Technologists, is now online.]

By: Jeff On Games » Blog Archive » Writing Escapes me…

Jeff On Games » Blog Archive » Writing Escapes me… — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:30:54 +0000

[...] to post about a conference some of the guys went to at Chris Crawford’s house called Phrontisterion. Just so we’re clear, I would have given anything to b [...]

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:27:12 +0000

Here's some links to writeups of previous Phronts, with a few pictures, if you're curious. Year 1 (1999) had some heavy-hitters, with Raph Koster, Brian Moriarty, Ron Gilbert, Chris Hecker, Doug Sharp... 1999 (+ Thom's writeup), 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 Each year has links to one or more additional writeups by attendees, always including Rick Smith. :-) Interesting to read TG's prediction at the top of the report from 3 years ago, vis-a-vis Façade.