I never had a passion for comics, cartoons or animation in general. Luckily my curiosity keeps me on the edge and pushes me continuously to challenge my artistic taste buds. So in this case it did not kill the cat!
Last weekend we finally had the chance to watch the French animated film “Persepolis”. The film is based on Marjane Satrapi‘s graphical self biography with the same name. I heard a lot of positive reviews about the book and the film and in this particular case it does deserve every bit of acclaim it received, that’s of course according to Mac and me. The film received numerous awards and has been translated to many language (I wonder if Arabic was one of them?! naaaaaaahhh….difficult to do if you have God and Carl Marx in the same scene!) Read the rest of this entry »
As anybody who follows international politics knows by now, the Sweden Democrats (whose only democratic thing is the name, being the party a spin-off of the neo-nazi movement) have for the first time in history gone over the 4% threshold, a fact that allows them to sit in the Swedish riksdag.
On the election night (SVT1 live coverage of the event), Jimmie Åkesson (the party leader) claimed that SD “are not against immigrants, but against broken immigration laws”. Not that anybody really believed him, but it is good to know that some of his fellow neonazis proved him wrong in a matter of hours.
“Line the immigrants here on the film up against the wall and put a bullet between the eyes, then put them in a bag, stick a stamp on them and send them back to where they come from,” the Sweden Democrat candidate for Trelleborg in southern Sweden wrote on her Facebook page, according to the local Trelleborgs Allehanda daily.
On the other hand, there are rumors the other parties in the parliament are working out new rules for the parliament commissions, with the specific aim to exclude the SD from taking part into the work of them. Let’s hope they will manage to keep them at bay.
Isao Hashimoto works as curator in a Japanese museum. He is not famous, but a few years back, he made a short film showing the location of nuclear detonation on the planet, in the years 1945 to 1998, that became famous enough for me to find it.
The clip is lengthy and – quite frankly – a bit repetitive, but it serves well the purpose of illustrating the idiocy of the human race. Some data and observations that is easy to extrapolate from watching the film: Read the rest of this entry »
Swedes aren’t really known for their sense of humour, yet sometimes they amaze me. Taken from this article:
When Malmö launched its Malmö Festival around 20 years ago, local daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet printed up t-shirts that said: “If you have seen Malmö, you have seen the world.”
Soon after, neighbouring Lund launched its riposte: “If you have seen Lund, you don’t need to see Malmö.”
I know the two cities very little but my vote – I must admit – goes for Lund.
Well, a couple of days ago TED released the latest talk from Hans Rosling… Another great one, both content-wise and for the way it is delivered. Enjoy!
A powerful ad relies on a blend many factors: a compelling message, an original concept, the ability to shoot and cut a film, the capacity to telling a story, originality, conciseness… just to name a few. A powerful ad -- at least to me -- is a form of art on its own.
The ad here below was done by the Anderson M Studio for the Te Kaunihera Pukapuka o Aotearoa (yes, I know… I could have used the English name for it… but would you have clicked the link, then?) who states:
Like no other human activity reading opens up our imagination. It enables us to understand those around us. It allows us to project the future and reach back into the past. Reading can entertain, challenge and educate. We believe that reading can transform people’s lives. Our mission is to inspire more New Zealanders to read more.
In my opinion, the only shortcoming of the ad are its sound effects: too many, too heavy, too loud… (it makes difficult to follow the narrating voice) but other than that, I find the ad to be awesome!
A few days ago, when the Obama administration forced BP to set up an escrow account for speeding up the process of refunding residents of the the gulf region that are affected by the spill, it made world news what Carl-Henric Svanberg said during the press conference.
Of course -- for as evil as one can imagine BP top management to be -- the intended meaning of the expression was not derogatory. The expression itself was a translation slip from the expression “den lilla människan” which a commenter on the New York Times explains much better of how I could do: Read the rest of this entry »
The video “suggests” that Guillaume reaches the bottom of the hole, which is not the case (being the world record about half the depth of the hole), yet the visual impact of the video is noticeable or -- to say it like one of the commenters -- freaking epic.
Curiosities:
The camerawoman filmed the dive while holding herself the breath (and you think your job was hard?!)
Despite the video being most certainly the result of cutting several different dives, the running time of the entire clip is close to that of real-life free dives of this kind.
Here they come a couple of videos of RC planes that I StubledUpon recently (yes… I miss flying gliders, and I can’t wait for when I will be able to do that again on a regular basis!).
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I never had a passion for comics, cartoons or animation in general. Luckily my curiosity keeps me on the edge and pushes me continuously to challenge my artistic taste buds. So in this case it did not kill the cat!
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