Last month, I was filmed for a documentary film on the down side of video games and the rapid integration of technology into modern culture. The movie is titled Your Computer is Killing You: The Side-Effects of a Techy Lifestyle, a labor of love by filmmakers Brian Bentow and Solomon Rothman. I was asked to contribute my thoughts on video game addiction.

For this week’s (month’s?) Robot Punch!, I’ll share my experience from the other side of the screen to give some insight on its progression.

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In March, a pair of filmmakers approached me with the invitation to participate in a documentary film they’re producing. The film is titled Your Computer is Killing You: The Side-Effects of a Techy Lifestyle and explores the unforeseen side effects of the rapid integration of technology into our culture. They’d seen my article on video game addiction and asked me to elaborate on my experience as one of their sources.

This is a documentary of my experience from within a documentary…

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Yeah, yeah, I get it, The Dark Knight is going to blow my mind.  In the meantime, another tale of unlikely heroism has got my attention.  A gritty, in-depth story of the lives of professional gamers, from the current stars to the dark horses to the fresh faces, Frag will, no doubt, itself blow a few minds.

Meet Mike Pasley, film artist and Director of Frag, and Judd Saul, Director of Photography with Cohesion Productions and the Executive Producer of Frag.

How did the idea for Frag come about?
Judd: Well, we’re a film and video production company, and we wanted to do a documentary, and we were going through, “What do we like to do? What really needs to be covered?” We were watching TV, and we noticed that professional video gaming was getting more recognition, and we were like, this is it. This is a documentary that we need to do. I think this is a story that needs to be told that we could accomplish.

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