Amazon’s $5-a-month Anime Streaming Service

For $5 a month, Amazon Prime members can bundle a new service to their streaming package: Anime Strike. Offering 1,000+ titles, the feature offers an array of classics as well as current anime shows. Amazon is offering a seven day free trial for those interested. Anime Strike is part of Amazon Channels—tailored, standalone streaming packages that launched back in December. More of these selective content …

Mario Video Game Inventor Shigeru Miyamoto on Design

In a superb new Vox video, visionary Shigeru Miyamoto addresses what has made his games—Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros, Zelda and more—so powerful. Filled with insight and wit, the video explains Miyamoto’s emphasis on storytelling before programming and consumer’s want to feel a sense of completion. Miyamoto himself addresses his background in industrial design and how a game must teach a player how to play. …

Celebrating the Spontaneity of Disposable Cameras

At Downtown LA’s Think Tank Gallery, 30 professional photographers from varied backgrounds will be sharing 88 prints of work done solely on disposable cameras. The group exhibition, “Indoek 27 Frames,” was devised by Matt Titone, founding partner of LA-based creative agency ITAL/C and lifestyle publication Indoek. Titone sent some of his favorite photographers out with cheap 35mm disposables and published the resulting works online. This …