Two days to go before the end of 2009 and now I discover that it was the international year of astronomy. Bloody hell.
Anyway, these beautiful posters were exquisitely crafted for the fun of it by Simon Page and eventually adopted by International Astronomical Union and UNESCO for their promotional work.
When someone says “fax it to me,” I always feel like I’m being punk’d. A fax machine is nothing more than a printer, scanner and an obsolete analog mode that work together to waste time, money, paper and electricity.
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Beautiful macro video shot with a Lumix GH1, backed up by an excellent Clint Mansell track.
This Lord of the Rings Facebook parody is probably a bit funnier than the Star Wars one, only because of the language.
So which came first, the advertising idea or the editing technique? Does it matter?
Really?
A good behind-the-scenes report from Wired on the demise of Duke Nukem Forever. One of the many lessons that can be drawn from the whole story is that ideas make money and not the other way around.
In the last year or so, with a growing baby who is so much fun to be with, going to the movies has been a rare event. So nowadays, I find myself watching a lot of movies on HBO.
That’s how I caught Wanted. It was one of those movies that I wanted to watch on the big screen but never found the time to. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov, who also did Nightwatch and Daywatch, Wanted is quite a visual spectacle (and I am including Angelina Jolie in that). A dead-end office worker who turns into a deadly assasin, James McAvoy’s Wesley Gibson realises he can bend bullets like Beckham. It was a fun movie, though I thought James McAvoy’s baby-faced assasin look could have been grunged-up a bit.
A great cover of an old classic by Florence + The Machine, and a very distracting video, I must say.
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