Go Media
Various media related to Go. Wanted: icons, themes, pointers, skins, etc...
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Pictures
These pages contain Go-related pictures:
http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/artwork/index.html
- totally wonderful pictures by Nicolas Rougier, the best what I have seen.
- This link is broken
http://araldo.student.utwente.nl/ (goban800x600.jpg)
- beautiful work by Araldo van de Kraats, the only mistake is that the goban sparkles a little bit
- (broken link?)
http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/pics/
- the image from SL frontpage
http://objects.povworld.org/cat/Toys/for_Adults/
- here you can download macro for making simple goban
http://www.3dgo.org/
- Eric Piotrovski, the sad thing is that the stones look very flat
http://www.volny.cz/tasuki/povgoban.jpg
- tasuki's try, too colorful, with a bad goban texture (taken from POV-Ray)
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/188
- A few nice Go pictures besides other Go content.
http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/achim/gogame.html
- Lee Changho, 9. Dan - Kobayashi Koichi, 9. Dan (animated GIF)
http://artandgo.deviantart.com/
- A deviantART gallery, created by cherisse?
http://gobase.org/information/pictures/?col=art
- pictures at gobase
http://www.allaboutgo.com/gallery/pictures/index.html
- A growing collection of Go images on All About Go.
Addionally you may also want to try a search on www.flickr.com or any other photo sharing platform. I tried goban as a tag for my search.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=goban&m=tags. A tag like "go" is obviously not of much help. Even kanji can be used.
See also
Classic art
http://www.kiseido.com/printss/cover.htm
- KGS art section
http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/galleryintro.html
- IGS art gallery
http://www.cuifei.net/works/weiqi.htm
- Contemporary art by artist Cui Fei (崔斐)
Go wallpapers
http://www.kurokigoishi.co.jp/english/wallpeper/index.html
- Kurokigoishi wallpapers
http://users.skynet.be/axd/go/walls/
- axd: walls collected from various places (no original material here)
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details.php?id=29
- one Go wallpaper (several sizes)
http://dunago.hu/download.html
- from a Hungarian Go club
http://www.allaboutgo.com/resources/wallpapers.html
- Some wallpapers are available on All About Go.
Textures
Some applications (such as MultiGo) allow to choose custom textures. Here you can find some:
http://www.evensen.org/go/
- Pelle Evensen's Go-stuff
http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/kgsueme/images/
- kgsueme images
http://chiyodad.port5.com/
- found from glgo page
Sounds
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/qgo/sounds/
- qGo
http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/kgsueme/sounds/
- kgsueme
Print Media
Articles on Go in print media: Periodicals and NonFiction
Video
An increasing amount of movies is becoming available - e.g. YouTube seems to be collecting a lot of stuff; maybe they could be listed here.
YouTube Tags:
Nakano's "God's hand"
- a dohsuji in 54th NHK Cup Go Tournament?
- Room Cinematographer
-
own videos (e.g.
this one)
- A Game of Go (
part 1 ,
part 2)
- a move-by-move musical setting for 2 pianos of a classic game
Mister Nosle - Go game Neurotic Beat
- Stop motion animation of a game of Go
Ban Go
- A game of Go Gambling with a good soundtrack.
- English subbed Lee Chang Ho vs. Cho Hun Hyun Chinese game commentary - Parts
1,
2 and
3
- 6th LG Cup Semi-Final Match played in 2002. Chinese game commentary provided by Hua Yigang 8-dan professional. Subbed by Heretix.
Other
- Video Tutorials for Go (
part 1,
part 2,
part 3a,
part 3b)
- A pretty good series of video tutorials aimed at beginners, in English
'WeiQi Report'
- impressions on the soundtrack of 'Mission Impossible'
Hikaru no GO - Boom in Japan
- (this entry was also published in a magazine)
badukmovies
- Further description
- Alejo's
go blog
- several video reviews of go software
Let's Go
- SwissGo? Videocast (german)
Let's Go
- Video report of the Swiss Go Championship 2006 - mainly interviews with some players (german)
Streams
See List of streamers.
Flash
ChumGo - Go Seigen
- a Flash widget for
Chumby. Replays over 80 games of Go Seigen.
Flash Go Introduction
- A Flash Go introduction for beginners on All About Go.
TV series
Terminator: 'The Sarah Connor Chronicles' episode #10 of season 2, titel: 'Strange Things Happen at the One Two Point' has Go content