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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 [...]
Wednesday 09 November, 2011
Branded in Cinema
Anyone who has (dared to) watch Ra.One will have experienced the lengthy tribute to all the partnering brands which occurs before the movie commences and runs for a good 10 minutes. And as the movie begins to roll, you will find those brands come up in some scene or the other. Strategic product placement in [...]
Monday 10 October, 2011
The Lies We All Speak
While most truths have us wishing that we get hit by a bout of memory loss, Justin Barber, a freelance artist from the United States, manages to reveal some substantial truths, in achingly witty ways. He has designed a series of posters that portray the little lies and excuses we give ourselves (or others) about [...]
Friday 07 October, 2011
Why I Love Steve Jobs So Much
I have never owned an Apple product in my life. While the iPhone has always fascinated me, I have never had the overwhelming urge to buy it, simply because I am not a smartphone person at all. I have barely worked on the iMac even. I do not follow Steve Jobs/Apple on Twitter or Facebook. [...]
Thursday 29 September, 2011
Don Draper pitches the new Facebook Timeline
In an awesome video mashup by technology strategist Eric Leist, Mad Men’s Don Draper pitches the idea for the new Facebook Timeline, a nostalgia filled social network that “lets us travel the way a child travels — round and round, and back home again to a place where we know we are loved.” In the [...]
Monday 26 September, 2011
The kitteh every kitteh wants to be
No pants. No shirt. Just a sword, a hat and a pair of boots. That’s all it takes to make one badass kitty. And it looks like he’s gonna get his own movie after all. After swashbuckling his way through three Shrek movies and many other specials, Antonio Banderas’ lovable yet deadly Puss in Boots [...]
Tuesday 06 September, 2011
Shoot the boss
Do you hate your boss? Long for the day when someone hands you an AK-47 and lets you perforate the slave driver? Well, Lawrence Costner got his chance at pulling the trigger on his boss as part of a company promo video. Trent Kimbell, CEO of the armoured vehicle company Texas Armoring Corporation shows how [...]
Wednesday 08 June, 2011
What’s your social worth?
My last post was about discovering your social connections that make up your total social aggregate. Now, it’s time to see how much it’s worth. Find out the true value of you social connections at The Social List. An analysis of your individual social networks or a combination of them, gives you your online standing [...]
Thursday 02 June, 2011
Exhibit A – You.
You are what you click. What you like. What you tweet. Who you follow. Where you check-in. Whose friend request you accept. Who you unfriend. And why. The web today has filtered into our daily lives. Cheezeburger loving lolcats and spell-check defying 133t speak have become commonplace. Suddenly, your standing among your peers is defined [...]
Tuesday 31 May, 2011
A digital love story in an analog world
Do androids dream of electric sheep? Philip K. Dick first asked this question in 1968. Whether Blade Runner answered this question or not, is still an open debate. But it did open up a big question. Can artificial intelligence be counted among sentient beings? They can think, but can they feel? They have brains, but [...]
