February 2009
19 posts
WatchCharles and Ray Eames’ A Communication Primer. Excelent.
“Imagine proposing to build Vegas in a place where sex and drugs and rock and...”
– People are pouring out of Dubai @ Boing Boing.
Really, I never understood the Dubai phenomenon. Dubai as Vegas is as dumb as Flanders’ theme park in The Simpsons, the whole concept flawed and stupid. Still some people compared its growth to 1920s Manhattan (New York City had been settled for...
Search and Destroy →
I’m not usually big on spreading memes such as these around, but Maria definitely inspired me to. So, the rules:
1. Put your media player in shuffle mode;
2. For each question, press the next…
David Bordwell on 'Slumdog Millionaire' →
At last I found a rational article about Danny Boyle’s movie, one that isn’t either a piece of hysterical hype or an utterly unjustified bashing driven by telephobia and/or ‘white man’s guilt’.
I finally watched Slumdog Millionaire and it is a good movie, but c’mon, not as good as the awards lead us to believe - while a tough comparison to make, I think David...
Global recession - where did all the money go? →
One of the scariest infographics you’ll ever see. In a nutshell: There is seventy-five times more fake (i.e. speculative) money in ‘financial assets’ than real money in circulation - that’s four times the world’s GDP.
We’re so fucked.
Watch23 Skidoo by Julian Biggs, NFB
The National Film Board of Canada online archive →
Wow. A real treasure of short films, documentaries and world-famous animations.
“Donkey power - A third of a horsepower, about 250 watts.”
– Fun and Unusual Units of Measurements @ Neatorama
WatchChange Your Habits Today is a spec advert I did at my Master’s Degree in Multimedia. The final work has an ‘interactive layer’ with lots of date on pollution and global warming, this is the video-only version.
You can watch it in HD at Vimeo.
