Culture Watch. I just read an interesting article about a new cultural phenomenon. The name given to it is Machinima, pronounced mah-sheen-ima, to rhyme with cinema. The combination of machine and cinema gives a clue as to its intent. The machine is whatever plays a video game, such as a PC or a game console like a Playstation or Xbox. The cinema is the creation built upon an existing video game that is altered or mixed with the artist’s own words, sounds and music. I predict that this will be a very large cultural movement if copyright holders of the original works are willing to cooperate. The amazing thing is that Microsoft is being very receptive with the use of its game Halo by these artists. The only spanner in the works is if pornography rears its ugly head. Read the article here.