This may be too much to bear if you’re counting the minutes until the iPad is available in the UK…
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The Sound Of Her Wings…
I’m re-reading Neil Gaiman‘s “Sandman” series at the moment (The Absolute editions are beautiful things, if pricey). This page, showing Death on her rounds, is one of my favourites from any comic ever; so simple and so effective…
At last! Exactly what I was hoping for from the iPad…
Ever since the iPad was announced I’ve been hoping someone would make exactly this app for it…
Guess who’s back?
Apologies if you’ve visited this site over the last couple of weeks and found something other than the Brain here; I let my domain subscription lapse and crazy things happened as a consequence. I’m back now, though, so stop crying.
It’s been a while since I wrote anything here (or anywhere, actually) because I’ve been directing New Tricks, which, like any directing job, involves getting up at 5am and trying to bend 60-something people to my will every day. This leaves very little time/energy for writing.
I’m now in the edit (or would be if some raging pov hadn’t smashed my car window yesterday looking for my non-existent satnav) and have a few weeks of relative calm before I saddle up to direct the last two New Tricks eps of the series. Somewhere within this brief window I also have to re-draft my script for one of those episodes. It’s all go. It’a all money. I’ll not complain (except about the car window, FFS!)
So, what have you been up to? Actually, don’t bother, let’s not pretend I care. Some good things have come into the world or at least come to my attention while I’ve been gone from here, so I thought I should pass them on…
Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 album is absurdly good. Buy it immediately (along with the first two if you don’t already have them). Here’s a clip…
While we’re looking at music videos, I’m surely not the first person to commend the new Gorillaz track to your kind attention. YouTube won’t allow it to be embedded so here’s the link…
While looking up that link, I stumbled across a show called Archer. I may be late to this particular party, but it looked pretty damn good to me. Does anyone know anything about this? Am I hopelessly out of touch? Here’s episode one… (again, no embedding allowed)
All of the above should be enjoyed via the new Bowers and Wilkins P5 headphones which are are about the best looking thing you can clamp to your head.
Another recent release worthy of note is the new House Industries font: Eames Century Modern which is a thing of great beauty, created in tribute to the designers Ray and Charles Eames.
Finally, on the subject of Charles and Ray (husband and wife, incidentally, not brothers as is often assumed) here is 20 seconds of furniture porn featuring one of the most desirable objects in the world. I really really really want one…
Right, I’m starting my day. I need to update some photos on SmugMug soon and there may be a piece here on Eames in the next few days, now I’m in the mood, but for the moment: Begone.
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Tagged Archer, Bowers and Wilkins, Eames, Gorillaz, house industries, Jay-Z
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BumpTop is here at last…
Back in 2007 I was blown away by this video…
It’s been a long wait but finally, after nearly three years, it’s here (and it’s free!)…
BumpTop Mac: Reinventing your Mac desktop.
Enjoy. I’m off to fling folders around…
It’s not the pirates…
Last night’s trip to the local Vue cinema:
£10.25 per ticket, which couldn’t be purchased at the ticket office because that was closed, so had to be bought from the concessions stand and therefore involved a lot of angry people missing the start of their movies because they were queuing behind people who were buying tubs of popcorn…
…But not hot dogs, because they’d run out of hot dogs by 7.40pm on a Thursday night.
Usually the projection at the Vue cinemas is woeful (out of focus, out of rack etc) but this was a digital projection, so they couldn’t fuck it up…
…Oh, except that the projector was a little weaker than it should have been given its distance from the screen…
…Although the weakness of the image could be attributed to the fact that the cinema refuses to bring the house lights all the way down at the start of the movie for “health and safety reasons”. There was therefore a mis-aligned spotlight shining onto the right hand side of the screen for THREE HOURS.
Before the movie started, we were treated to several stern lectures and warnings about film piracy. Apparently it’s a crime to be taken very seriously because it’s destroying the entertainment industry.
Is. It. Fuck.
Cinema exhibition is dying because the big cinema exhibitors are greedy, arrogant, incompetent shitstains who care more about flogging snacks than showing movies and who have been butt-raping the public too hard and too long.
Last night’s outing cost about £30 (double that if we’d needed a babysitter).
Regardless of the quality of the movie, the quality of the cinema experience was shit.
The Blu-Ray will be out in a couple of months and will cost £15. I can watch it at home whenever, with whoever and as often as I want.
Cinema (the place, not the form) is indeed dead. But it wasn’t killed by pirates, it was fucked to death by fat sweaty middle-aged white men who weren’t smart enough to keep one of the simplest business models in the world ticking over.
R.I. fucking P.
Some thoughts for Monday…
These are worth a few minutes of your time…
Now go start the week.