2012 August The Archives
Wednesday 29 August, 2012
Spotlight: In conversation with Warsha Easwar
Dark nimbus clouds gathered over Bandra as I rushed to Candies for a meeting. One quite unlike any other I’ve ever had to be a part of. I was to meet Warsha Easwar a.k.a. Warshhh, a young aspiring singer with an overwhelmingly sweet voice and a ear for music. Having a niche in jazz, blues [...]
Tuesday 28 August, 2012
Enlightened pickup lines
Getting hit on by guys can be a bit putting off for women. But what about getting hitting on by historical figures and geniuses? Here are a series of re-imagined pick-up lines of history’s most noble and famous blokes. Via CollegeHumour
Monday 27 August, 2012
Silver and Light
Before photography could see its modern day SLR avatar, it existed in some very elementary methods, one of them being the collodion process. A rather inconvenient form used in the 1850s, it required the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes. This required the use of [...]
Thursday 23 August, 2012
Fus Ro Dah, dah dah dah
RPG gamers, rejoice! Here are two really gorgeous ladies playing a medley of the Skyrim and Morrowmind themes. On their harps. Known as The Harp Twins, Camille and Kennerly Kitt are identical twins who perform pop, rock and contemporary music on their electric harps. Besides musicians, the sisters are also actors, models, Tae Kwon Do instructors [...]
Tuesday 21 August, 2012
Remembering Tony Scott
Yesterday, the world learned of the tragic demise of Hollywood director Tony Scott. The director of 16 films including Top Gun and Enemy Of the State, Tony studied to be a painter before joining his older brother Ridley’s successful production company. After earning his stripes directing commercials, Tony got his big break with his first [...]
Tuesday 14 August, 2012
Embrace the remix
I’ve always believed that ideas never exist in a vacuum, that they germinate from other ideas and concepts. Creativity fuels creativity, as seen in a lot of what goes up on art communities like DeviantArt. Unfortunately, copyright laws tend to misrepresent how creative works are perceived, and that often becomes a bag of trouble for [...]
Monday 13 August, 2012
Movie cities as 2020 Olympics venues
So the 2012 Olympics have been quite interesting and rewarding, especially for London and Team GB. So as this one concludes, we’ve already started looking ahead. Even beyond Rio 2016, to 2020. With a futuristic date like this, the Olympics deserve a city that’s appropriately way-out. Fortunately the movies already have fantastic examples of cities [...]
Friday 10 August, 2012
Sight: a sci-fi short film
The future of technology and user interface is augmented reality, if concepts like Google’s Project Glass are anything to go by. Images, directions and information all placed before your eyes, a bit like the Iron Man suit interface. Follow directions through in-ear speakers, take pictures by just blinking your eyes, all seem like extensions of [...]
Thursday 09 August, 2012
A message to the Martian voyagers
A few months before his demise in 1996, Carl Sagan, the famed astrophysicist and astronomer known for his famous TV series and book ‘Cosmos’, recorded a poignant message for future Martian wanderers. It’s a message that attempts to understand why we’ve put so much effort, so much passion and so much intelligence into sending a [...]
Thursday 09 August, 2012
Photoception!
Remember Inception? That movie about a dream within a dream within a dream within a… These guys tried the same thing, only with photos. It’s kinda hard to explain, so we’ll let you see it for yourself. And since it would be criminal not to make a video of this, please hit play. via BuzzFeed
