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Sitting in the mud with David Lynch: what his life is still teaching me about games and everything else


A reflection on David Lynch's approach to art.

All that is great, but what I want to talk about today is a moment from the movie David Lynch: The Art Life, which a dear friend suggested I watch this week. I'm thinking of the same games I always bang on about inevitably - climbing and falling in Grow Home, jumping between buildings in Crackdown, finding a new path or stopping in a glade in A Short Hike. As Lynch hacks a multimedia work together in modern LA, bending wire into handwritten words and then getting endearingly frustrated when he can't drill them into the panel he has in mind - "Motherf***er!"

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