Are video games art? (noggin babbles)

Art is perhaps something that is respected for eons and despite what is considered "good art" or "bad art" the genres stay relatively within a certain frame. That is, think about the most important criterion for what is deemed as "Art": THE SECOND OPINION. Without this, there is no "Art". So then, is something like the video game considered art? Many people nowadays seem to think so. But, then what about the "real" art and artists...could Metal Gear Solid, or World of Warcraft ever really compare to the Sistine Chapel, or a Beethoven symphony, or even, the Beatles White Album? A very biased Roger Ebert article stated "Video games can never be art." (4/10/2010, Chicago Sunday Times), and the title says it all. What came in the wake of such a "never"? More than a 1000 replies. Most of these replies listed all the various games out today that would be, should be, must be, ARE considered "art."

All this seemed to point to was that there was a growing consensus that believed in games, believed in the idea that it had some artistic merit, and could find beauty aesthetically in it.

Perhaps instead of deeming video games as mere games, or NON-artistic, perhaps it would be best to leave it to the tides.

If I fell again again

If it was at all possible

to fall within a falling

then every year was possible

the eye could shed that tear.

sugar spreads across

a butter drenched terrain

Soul Teething

A friend was counseling another friend who was living and working in Germany. We were in a brightly lit cafe; I was immersed in a game, and my friend was simultaneously reading a monumental mammoth book and chatting.

His friend was lonely.

Insanely lonely but too smart and proud to do anything stupid, or to merely freeze out of inactivity.

Perhaps his soul was grating and teething and feeling a loneliness that creates static electricity with everything touched.

Even though a million miles away and a million conversations away from familiarity, I felt that he was a kindred spirit.

Power to the People?

Everyone has a special day --- or decides to make a day special -- or is faced with a day that becomes special - and on this special day, there are a plethora of things that could happen to make a smile form on a face, or vice versa. But everyone knows, there's usually only one or two people in the "world as we know it" then, that can make that day truly special. Gee...so much power to just those chosen people - and why do we do it?
Most likely the zen I am me because you are you and you validate me as i validate you.
In any case, today, on my birthday, or rather, the passing day after, (which feels oh so much better than the day before, because yesterday, I felt like i gambled a million billion gazillion dollars and lost it all but woke up today and it was a dream), I can finally make my birthday wish, and it is this:

I hope all those people who have this "power to control a moment", at these particular moments, realize it and do something about it.