June 26, 2009
The below video is a parkour (also known as urban flow or free running ( think of the beginning of casino royale)) video shot in Sao Paulo, and if this isn’t public space and architectural hacking I don’t what is( save for actually taking power tools to the infrastructure).
SAMPARKOUR from Wiland Pinsdorf on Vimeo.
Guys like this make me jealous of how i move around the world i live in.
June 2, 2009
Just when I thought star wars really was exhausted of anything good (minus the clone wars cartoon naturally), this video (below) is released. I don’t much care for online games, but the video is brilliant if only for a short film, and prelude to things. Why didn’t the films (the prequels (still hate that word)) have this kinda action choreography?
(Right! the video won’t embed, so please go to this link. Thank you very much) Star Wars: Old Republic Trailer
April 9, 2009
I have been meaning to post these for a few days but I have been busy, and now I notice that Boing Boing have another post up about the new police posters turning up around Britain. Boing Boing’s previous posts are here and here . The reason I am posting about this is because the posters seem so poorly designed. The big words on the posters are the words you really don’t want to pay attention to. If you do, they come across as very authoritarian and scary. However, what you have to pay attention to is the small print. These posters are part of the police’s attempt to become more transparent in society. Take for example the poster below.
The large text of this poster is scary, like everybody it is addressing is guilty of something. However, the small text is the bottom is the one to read. It says ” The Police now pledge to keep you informed on how they’re tackling neighbourhood crime. To find out more go to directgov.gov.uk/policingpledge or text PLEDGE to 66101″. Below this text is the title “The Policing Pledge”. Therefore, the poster is not meant to be part of the anti-terror posters that have crept in to the UK (here ,and here for fun remixes of the posters , noticed how all the links are to Boing Boing?)
The point I am trying to make is that this is the police is trying to make itself more personable and transparent yet they seem to be hiding the meaningful information behind intimidating wording and fonting. If you don’t spend the time reading the posters top to bottom, then you won’t get the message, which in advertising is a major problem i would think.
How about another poster to illustrate my point:
Here the text underneath reads ” The police pledge to listen and respond to residents’ concerns about neighbourhood crime, To find out more go to directgov.gov.uk/policingpledge or text PLEDGE to 66101″. Again the big, bold type and words don’t help matters, and you have to spend time stopping and reading the small print.
Oh I should add that I am in Sheffield as are these posters.
March 18, 2009
Now this interview you have to watch. It has Neil Gaiman and Stephen Colbert are on top form, and the interview serves as some of the best press for any book I have seen to date.Watch.
January 30, 2009
October 13, 2008
From Boing Boing Gadgets:
This is what Elmo is for. Infomercia has long bred these genetically mutated chimpanzees, first as passive, cackling tickle sponges, and now — in their third, in-bred generation — as prancing, joke-telling, hugging nightmare gobins with thyroidically bulging eyes.
Rest of post here
For the post to make sense, it might be wise to read this one
September 1, 2008
July 20, 2008
What is the end result of practicing magic? Is it a type of spirituality?
The mystics all seem to want to go straight to the Godhead; the magicians tend to be more curious. They want to explore all of the other aspects of the universe. For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It’s like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat. And then you can turn that idea into a film, a book, a painting, a piece of music, something that other people can experience. That in itself is stunning. And I suppose this is one of the reasons I got into magic, because I was tired of ducking that question that people always ask writers, which is, ”Where do you get your ideas from?” (My Italics)
from an interview with writer Alan Moore here
Alan Moore is famous for his comics book series V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell as well as Swamp Thing, among others.
May 30, 2008
I man has alleged that he has real footage of an alien running around, but we have to wait till Friday (today for most of the world 
for it to be released as a documentary.
I love this bit thought (from the second link):
“I have equipment that will test to see if that shot was recorded originally on that tape, which it was,” he said.
However, Hofmann said there’s no way for him to know whether or not the little gray alien, which was videotaped peeping through a window, is the real thing.
But Hofmann thinks it is.
“The chances are that we are not alone,” he said. “That’s the conclusion I’ve come to.”
May 5, 2008
Yes it’s real
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