Alex Roman has spent a year creating one of the most astonishing CG short films that I’ve seen in a long time: The Third & The Seventh (HD version at vimeo). The film can be best described as a meditation on architecture, photography and the sense of space and depth in the world around us. [...]
New York based artist Josh Gosfield has created a quite astonishing piece with his “Gigi Gaston, The Black Flower” exhibition, which just recently closed at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Manhattan. Gosfield manufactured the life story for an imaginary 1960s French singer, complete with posters, records, many magazine covers and even a music video and [...]
Due to some random link-clicking I ended up on the Star Trek Phase II website, which I had not been on for several years… This is the site of a group of Star Trek fans that spend considerable time and energy on creating new episodes of the original series. It is interesting – and frankly [...]
After my recent post on San Francisco’s original Emanu-El Synagogue I got a link to this photo from Richard over at Sparkletack and in that picture of Sutter Street of just after the earthquake of 1906 there is an advertisement for MJB coffee clearly visible on a wall of one of the destroyed buildings. That [...]
Bruce Sterling posted a rather rough wakeup call about the state of current literature and publishing at his beyond the beyond blog – Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature. The recent wave of layoffs in the publishing industry was probably just the beginning in a process that will eventually lead to a new equilibrium far away [...]
Last weekend we had a chance to see the Japanese movie “Departures” as a preview of its official release in the US during the San Francisco International Film Festival. Departures won this year’s Academy Award for best foreign film, and it must have been a close call as best film all around. Where to begin? [...]
We saw Coraline this week and I have to say I throughly enjoyed it. The film is done in stop-motion and for the first few minutes it seems to be very obvious, almost as if the filmmakers attempted to point out the fact that this is not another mass-produced CGI film of the kind we’ve [...]
Jason Scott over at ASCII has a rather hearty rant about the Cloud we are supposed to put all our data in. And he is absolutely right. In fact, it couldn’t be said better! Over the last few years we’ve all been trained to entrust a large number of companies and organizations with a lot [...]
OMG! It’s almost November… and again, it’s a very busy time with so many things to do – and that is a very bad thing, since I really, really would love to do another NaNoWriMo. It’s been four years now since I’ve been a NaNo Winner, and I’d love to repeat that feat. In case [...]
James Lileks got “100 Movie Pack Mystery Classics” for his birthday and what else to do than blog the movies, one at a time. The first three movie reviews are up on his site, and judging from them this could be a very long two years for James, but a very entertaining 100 weeks for [...]