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COVER STORY
Games
Kurt Andersen and sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay
talk about the magic and artistry of games.
  Game
Show
Poets Mary Jo Salter and Brad Leithauser visit the
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art to take a look at a new exhibit,
"Game Show." Until the spring of 2002, its galleries are filled with artwork
about games -- from giant jigsaw puzzles and marbles to stacks of Nintendo.
Produced by Jad Abumrad.
 Go
to Mass MOCA exhibit
Schoolyard
Rhymes
There's a lot more to the songs children
sing while they play games than you might think. Produced by Judith Kampfner.
Go
to a site on jump rope rhymes
 Video
Game Moviemaking
The feature which earned the top prize at Showtime's
2000 Alternative Media Festival last winter wasn't a typical student film.
To shoot their movie, the directors exploited the graphic engine of the
popular video game Quake. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.
Go
to the Ill Clan's website
Go
to Machinima, an online hub for computer-generated filmmakers
SPECIAL GUEST
 Ricky
Jay
Ricky Jay has been performing sleight-of-hand wonders since he was a child. His most recent stage show -- "Ricky Jay and his 52 assistants," directed by David Mamet -- featured just Mr. Jay and his deck of cards. A scholar of the swindlers and showmen of the past, he gathers his most entertaining research in a newsletter: "Jay's Journal of Anomalies." The journal has just been collected in a book of the same name, published by Farrar Straus Giroux. He also advises moviemakers on con-artistry through his Hollywood consulting firm, "Deceptive Practices."
Go
to Ricky Jay's bio
Go
to Jay's Journal of Anomalies (his latest book)
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Poeme Symphonique. Through October 28th, in Newport Beach, California, the organizers of the Eclectic Orange performance festival are staging a rarely performed composition that allows the metronome to take the spotlight. Produced by Alicia Zuckerman.
Design
for the Real World
Historian Larry May slips into one of his favorite
places -- the movie theater. Produced by Michael May.
Artist's
Choice
A look at the paintings of artist James Rizzi,
whose work celebrates the urban landscape. He's a favorite of rock musicians
Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, formerly of the Talking Heads, who have
used his images on many of the album covers for their band, Tom Tom
Club. Produced by Trey Kay.
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to Rizzi's official site
Go
to an online gallery with Rizzi's work
Go
to Tom Tom Club's site
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