Blam!2 a CD-ROM that's a cross between a guerrilla art project and an online zine is so seductive, colorful, and goddamned loud it all but obliterates the original Blam! disc.
Inside Blam!2 you'll find a torture garden of earthly delights: art and a demented story written and read by artist Rita Ackermann (she's the one who draws those disturbingly alluring punk/white trash girls, and whose work adorns the Blam! cover). You'll also find mocking bits of animation and agitprop, and digital exploitation cinema trailers, including "DIY GYN" (short for Do-It-Yourself Gynecology), pseudo-medical imagery and animation that's part Mondo Cane, part Bugs Bunny.
For all its arch frivolity, Blam!2 gobbles up memory and system juice like a muscle car sucks gas. Don't even consider it unless you're running System 7.5 or higher and have 8 megs of free RAM.
Blam!2, for the Mac: US$25. Distributed Art Publishers: (800) 338 2665, +1 (212) 473 5119, on the Web at www.phantom.com/~blam1.
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