November 2008
1 post
Pie – today and tomorrow →
Alan Woo wrote a program in Processing, which captures each frame of each movie and essentially creates a ‘pie chart’ of the colours contained within each film producing a simplistic and abstracted representation.
These are the pie charts for The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation & Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola.
October 2008
1 post
““It’s no longer a cushy job by any means.”
oh, will this...”
– Stress on the rise as cuts take hold | The Australian
September 2008
2 posts
Default Settings » The Whatever Button →
finally, instead of saying ‘yes’ to everything on the internets, you can say what you really think: ‘whatever’.
Social Networks: The Case for a "Pause" Button |... →
August 2008
3 posts
van morrison: the way young lovers do (1970) at...
“[Semicolons] are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, as quoted in Sex and the semicolon. Possibly the least sexy headline I’ve ever read.
As for the semicolon, I use it and I like it. Semicolons and em dashes are underappreciated.
(via dailymeh)
#101 Being Offended « Stuff White People Like →
i heard this guy interviewed on radio national today. it’s amazing what you can get a book contract for in the us of a. anyhoo, maybe the blog is funny? the interview was…
July 2008
5 posts
Liberation Hurts: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek -... →
Today is the Day →
wil shipley writes about his depression :
I’m always fighting depression. It’s there, waiting for me. Some months I’m great and I function like a normal person, and I think, “Yay, I’m done! Thank goodness that’s over!” Then I’ll have a week so dark that simply taking mail out of the mailbox seems like an epic struggle. And I remember, oh yes,...
June 2008
11 posts
From my mouth to your ear (Sex in The City Review... →
despite my better judgemnet, i went to see the ‘sex in the city movie’. berlant is right about everything in her review… (and i would add: why did they not do more with harry? i love harry!)
“The Happening, is not merely bad. It is an astonishment, so idiotic in...”
– The Movie Review: ‘The Happening’
walter benjamin - the work of art in the age of... →
“Organisers of Australia’s first “Camp for Climate Action” say...”
– Mass protest to block Newcastle coal train line – climate debate to escalate | Camp for Climate Action Australia
“People who spend many hours a day in front of computer screens and televisions,...”
– Are computers changing our brains? | The Australian
The 1,000 greatest films. →
As voted by 1,604 critics, filmmakers, reviewers, scholars and other likely film types.
1 tag
“It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed...”
– The Atlantic Online | July/August 2008 | Is Google Making Us Stupid? | Nicholas Carr
“Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you...”
– Unknown (via milkwasabadchoice)
“That’s the key difference. Obama discovered the acceptable black man, but...”
– When it comes to being president, is sexism the final frontier? | theage.com.au
May 2008
1 post
“Animal activists today held a macabre protest at the Japanese consulate,...”
– Whaling, kangaroo cull, what’s the bloody difference?