{"id":6628,"date":"2015-07-03T13:45:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6628"},"modified":"2015-07-19T13:47:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T20:47:13","slug":"arg-guru-brian-clark-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/03\/arg-guru-brian-clark-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"ARG Guru Brian Clark Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.argn.com\/2015\/07\/a_group_of_friends_mourning_brian_clark\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from ARGNet<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>A Group of Friends, Mourning Brian Clark<\/h1>\n<p>By Michael Andersen<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7324\" src=\"http:\/\/www.argn.com\/images\/brian-clark-sunglasses.jpg\" alt=\"brian-clark-sunglasses\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll art movements start with a small group of friends\u2026when historians look back on this phase in art, the movement that we will be a part of, what they will marvel at is how interconnected we are.\u201d Brian Clark was fascinated with the formation of movements and creating scenes, and was tireless in his efforts to foster a community of creators looking to find new ways of telling stories in the digital age. Yesterday, Brian passed away after a brief bout with cancer, leaving behind a community and industry he affected deeply.<\/p>\n<p>As president of GMD Studios (originally Global Media Design), Clark helped construct the web realities for <em>Nothing So Strange\u00a0<\/em>and <em>Freakylinks<\/em>, extending the narrative storytelling of film and television onto the internet. He continued\u00a0exploring different ways of telling stories through his\u00a0work on beloved alternate reality games like Sega\u2019s <em>Beta-7<\/em>, Audi\u2019s <em>Art of the Heist<\/em>, and <em>Eldritch Errors<\/em>. His projects delighted in stretching the boundaries of fictional worlds outside their comfort zones, asking players to do everything from \u201cstealing\u201d SD cards out of cars on display at events to joining characters at a Lovecraftian cabin in the woods.<\/p>\n<p>Clark\u00a0worked tirelessly behind the scenes to mentor new creators in the space, offering them help on everything from the craft of subversive storytelling to the realities of running a small business, including knowing what to charge for their work. He delighted in playing\u00a0with other peoples\u2019 creations and testing their limits, whether that meant <a href=\"http:\/\/topsecret.ning.com\/video\/video\/show?id=2659035%3AVideo%3A1298\" target=\"_blank\">donning a Ronald Reagan mask and dancing<\/a> under his \u201cJihadi Jazzhands\u201d persona, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thebruce0\/4858300828\/\" target=\"_blank\">creating a well-endowed, chain-smoking sock puppet named \u201cShe-Crab\u201d<\/a> for a game originally intended for children. He was an irrepressible prankster, leading to frequently outlandish conversations punctuated by his staccato laughter.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.argn.com\/2015\/07\/a_group_of_friends_mourning_brian_clark\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at ARGNet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from ARGNet A Group of Friends, Mourning Brian Clark By Michael Andersen \u201cAll art movements start with a small group of friends\u2026when historians look back on this phase in art, the movement that we will be a part of, what they will marvel at is how interconnected we are.\u201d Brian Clark was fascinated with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}