musings

Ice Lens Photography. Totally stunning images, particularly the last few, taken through a lens made entirely of ice.

Check out this video for Wonderland, the brand new track from Sol Seppy (former Sparklehorse member Sophie Michalitsianos). If the rest of the new album is as good as this song it’ll be one of the best releases of the year.

To quote an old friend, “Weak sauce.” Ratner’s a hack. The writing and dialogue suck. The Last Stand? I certainly hope so.

This infinitely recursive photo-mosaic is the most incredible time sink. Go there. Hate me for eating your free time later.

I rented The Constant Gardener today, and it’s excellent. Clocking in at 2 hours, it’s a long and somewhat slowly paced film, but it’s never boring. The film juggles romance, suspense and sociopolitical commentary deftly, and is particularly successful at the latter. In a nutshell, the movie exposes the corruption in western government and big pharm, and how the two collaborate to exploit the third world. I found the film desperately sad, but I think it’s worth seeing. Ralph Fiennes won the BAFTA for Best Actor, and Rachel Weisz won both the BAFTA for Best Actress and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. I hold little stock in the Oscars, but both of them deserved the awards. Strong, moving performances by both main characters, a horrifying and sad story, and absolutely beautiful cinematography (shot in Nairobi, Kenya) make this one of my favourite movies of the year.

Los 80’s is a list of links to 80’s videos on YouTube.  There are some real gems in there!

I’m back from E3, and I’m tired.

This is it, the last day of E3. I’ve one more meeting to go and then it’s the end of it for me. I’ve not really seen all that much this year – too busy – but I’ve managed to meet up with a lot of old friends, and this all the meetings thus far have been really positive. Meeting up with the (mostly ex-)Square crew was really great – I hadn’t seen most of them since 2000. Damn, my meeting’s in a few minutes, gotta run.

Well, I’m off to LA to go to E3. It’s totally business – all about the dog-and-pony show. To tell you the truth, if it weren’t for the fact that I’m going to be seeing so many of my old friends, I’d be totally dreading this trip. Don’t expect much in the way of E3 coverage from me ; the gaming sites and the gadget sites will have that jazz all covered way better than I could anyway.