September 2008
13 posts
WatchTrailer for The Things We Find in the Attic. I still haven’t finished editing this short film, so here’s just an appetizer.
It’s small magical realist tale, with Ana Margarida Carvalho and Inês Leite.
Provener →
I have just finished reading Neil Stephenson’s Anathem. It’s a hard novel to digest, but it is indeed a disappointment. I would rank it even below the political potboiler Interface, Stephenson’s…
Cafeína: Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto →
WatchMy good friend Joana put her 16mm short film Hypocrates online. It was done during our second year of film school (that long ago!), and I worked as 1st assistant director and editor in this film.
A quick anedocte: most of the film was shot in the backstage of Teatro Sá da Bandeira, back then a notorious screening room for porno flicks - and at times we were filming right the other side of the...
“She doesn’t know how much it weighs. Nobody she knows or has ever met...”
– Copenhagen Cycle Chic. This post about bicycle technofetishism can be applied to almost everything. I’d love to see computers or digital cameras or whatever just good enough to render specs irrelevant. (via Kottke)
Nose-picking idiot →
As you, the eight or nine people who visit this website may have noticed, my entire online empire was struck out of existence for a week, all because of the diligent efforts of an hacker that…
Chromium →
Google Chrome. Everybody is talking about it, and no wonder: your web browser is the single most important piece of software in your computer, it is the lens through which you experience whatever you do on the internet. In a sense - and this what Google’s betting, real hard - nowadays your web browser is your OS. Think about it. Using web applications, 95% of the things you did with that...
