- Mom's Evangelical Christian Rewrite of Harry Potter CANNOT Be Real
"Thank you very much for your concern, sir, but he does not need your religion, he has science and socialism and birthdays." Sadly, other bits of it are considerably madder, but that bit made me laugh. And it is now my new personal statement.
- Raiders of the Lost Ark as a silent B&W film
Steven Soderbergh has made this cut of Raiders available as a means of focusing on the staging of the film. I want to take the time to sit and watch this. When I'm not at work.
Tag: film
Bookmarks for May 25, 2012
- Griot
The next time I meet a pagan wanging on about bards and druids and their sacred oral traditions, I'm going to slap them in their boringly white middle class face. The phenomena is far from unique, and what they're spouting about "Celtic Tradition" in Britain it's mostly made up bullshit anyway.
- UI design in the Avengers
Detail shots of what are clearly some very cleverly thought out bits of UI design for fictional ultra-tech. This sort of thing is fascinating, both from an ideas point of view, and as an illustration of the level of thought and attention to detail that goes into even fleeting details in the background of a movie.
- London Underground Tube Diary – Going Underground's Blog
A chance to take a steam train on the tube! (OK, not actually, you know, underground, but that's OK, because it'll be pretty!) Yes, I will obviously have to go. I would also like to make it clear that I thought steam trains were cool *before* the goth scene discovered the colour brown.
Bookmarks for January 17, 2012
- Movies From An Alternate Universe on the Behance Network
Movie posters, re-imagined as films from an earlier era. Don't worry if that's not terribly clear, just go look. You'll thank me.
Bookmarks for July 30, 2010
- Urbanized
The next film by the guy behind Helevtica and Objectified.
Bookmarks for August 3, 2009
- Movie box office charts
Is you have any interest in data visualisation at all, you need to take a look at these. Really interesting way to present information of this kind – it allows interesting abberations to be identified really quickly and conveniently. What else might be suitable to present this way, other than the pop charts?
Bookmarks for June 29, 2009
- io9 – Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Shit, I may have to go and see this movie, if only to determine if this review is the touch of genius I suspect it is.
Bookmarks for June 1, 2009
- Barbican – Helvetica + Objectified (12A*)
June 28th, Double feature of Helvetica and Objectified at the Barbican. I've seen Helvetica, and could happily watch it again, but not Objectified. Anyone fancy a double bill of design documentaries?
- Online Backup, Data Backup & Remote Backup Solutions from Mozy.com – Welcome
Has anyone used this operation? Or anything similar? While I've got time machine, I have no offsite backups, which bugs me slightly. Particularly curious about the system performance impact of their background process, and also what kind of bandwidth useage spikes I could expect to see.
- Rossignol » Thrilling Wonder Stories
A summary of the conference I spent a chunk of Friday watching over the web. Sounds like the presentation they killed the video on was completely fascinating. I'm still processing of of the ideas I came away with, and doing my best to make sure they don't leak into anything else.
- Sleevelessness: Video Mixing With Microsoft Surface
This is some seriously impressive shit.
- Siggis ZX81 web server main page
Someone has managed to get a ZX-81 on the internet as a webserver. Awesome.
Bookmarks for April 23, 2009
- One & Other
Sign up now for your chance stand around on a plinth in Trafalgar Square for an hour at some point over the summer. I have. Fingers crossed…
- Bacon sandwich really does cure a hangover – Telegraph
Well, *duh*.
- Media packaging mashups
Jason Kottke's round up of well, exactly what is says – media packing redone in various distinctive styles that are more usually associated with some other form of media. Some gems in here.
Bookmarks for April 9, 2009
- David MacKay: Sustainable Energy – without the hot air: Download
I want to sit down and read this properly when I get time – an actual accessible book on the maths of energy consumption vs. possible energy production, as opposed the usual waffle.
- Coilhouse » Blog Archive » Latex/Guns/Gnosis: The Matrix Turns 10
A short retrospective of the first Matrix film, as it turns 10. a) it is horrifying to me that that movie is ten, because it means I am very old, and b) I particularly love the title of this article. It occurs to me that I have never satisfyingly run a game with all three of those elements, and I really must get around to having a go at that.
- Cory Doctorow: Getting tough on copyright enforcers | Culture | guardian.co.uk
I think this is a fair trade. I will accept a three strikes copyright warning system only if all copyright enforcers are held to the same standard: three wrong accusations, and they're out, too. Want to bet me that they'd all be gone before the rest of us would?
- Focal point (game theory) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Must remember this on in future – the basis by which two parties that are unable to communicate will still be able to select the same focal point in a game/challenge.
- re: diverselessness (tecznotes)
A companion to the other piece on monoculturalism, this dealing with internet communities and the origins of elites, and the social effects of these technologies, and some opinions on where these phenomena are likely to lead to.
- Whimsley: Online Monoculture and the End of the Niche
Why recommendation engines are creating even more of a mononculture than we had beore, even though everyone feels like they're finding more niche stuff.
- BLDGBLOG: Postopolis!
I have significantly less than fuck all architectural training, but it hasn't escaped my notice over the last few years that many of the most interesting creative types I know do have some history with the discipline, and I've increasingly found my own interests tending that way – not literally in the designing buildings sense, but in the sense of being aware of people's relationship with the space around them, and how to optimise that space to get the best out of life.
Postopolis therefore sounds like it would have been a fascinating event to be at, even if 90% would have gone sailing over my head. Any chance of holding the next one in London? It's at least as interesting as LA… - cityofsound: Postopolis LA
Dan Hill was at Postopolis and has written an excellent series of posts on it, and on LA in general. Thoroughly recommended reading.
Bookmarks for December 18, 2008
- Six Grid Desktop.
Anyone who has seen my desktop will know it tends to er, fill up a bit. So let's see if this makes it easier for me to manage my home work flow. (I know it won't work in the office, because of the sheer amount of random crap I need to get swift access to in any given week…)
- Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
I finally got around to watching Helevtica (the film about the font) while I was away at the weekend, and it was really very good. I look forward to seeing this.
- k-punk: The voice of Weird paternalism
On the difference between Oliver Postgate's heyday and now: "There are no children, there are no adults, there is no wonder: only adolescents in waiting, being spoken to by screamingly selfconscious adolescents in their twenties and thirties."
- Simple White WordPress Theme
What it says on the tin. I'd need to play with it a bit to get it to work for me, but I do like the basic structure.
- Poolga. iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers for the rest of us.
Yes, I shall be wanting some of these for my phone, for those times when I get bored of my own photos.
- 11 Creative Coffee and Tea Mug Designs
May of these are superb, and I would be delighted to own them. Just, y'know, saying.
- undrln
Digg/Reddit type site for design/branding/media stuff.
- 2008 Greek riots – The Big Picture – Boston.com
I am torn between awe at these pictures, and horror at the events they depict. Even if you don't normally look at the photography links I post, you can't afford to miss this one.