Jean-Claude Van Damme is a guilty pleasure of those of us who grew up thinking that Terminator 2 was more violence than one could possibly handle.
Read more at Time Magazine
But the man has gone from weakness to weakness. Until now, with a new project called JCVD, which in a turn as surreal as Brett […]
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Sian and I were at the SANG (South African National Gallery for those who never did Art at high school) this weekend, getting a good dose of culture, after walking around in the Gardens.
I’ll keep my rant on why museums and galleries funded by taxpayers money should be open to the public for free for […]
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I was looking at WW2 propaganda posters from the USA, after checking out the following post on YOU THE DESIGNER.
Its got to get you wondering about the impregnation of the German helmet in the psyche of the Allies.
I mean this poster doesn’t say ‘U.S. Government’ to me - rather some sleeper campaign from Hollywood. […]
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Google’s blog is highlighting today the importance of World Book Day and The Literacy Project.
Its shocking to think that 1 in 5 adults is illiterate. But as I reminded someone at a party on Saturday night, even if the WHOLE world was literate, a world without books is useless. And Google is doing good […]
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I’ve just watched an interesting amalgam of conspiracy theories, in the form of the pseudo-documentary “Zeitgeist: The Movie” (Not to be confused with American Zeitgeist).
I’m not going to go into length about the movie now, I’m sure I’ll have something to say about it in the future. But it did get me to thinking […]
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Something awesome to take a look at is a webtoy called Viscosity:
http://windowseat.ca/viscosity
Proof that some exciting stuff is coming out of the guys at Microsoft’s Live Labs
It was developed by Jeff Weir of Live Labs. It’s in PHP and Flash. So much for Microsofties being closed off to outside tech.
Bookmark to:
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In a Post-James Frey world, the author who wrote the former-Oprah-Book-Club supposedly autobiographical novel “A Million Little Pieces”, book editors need to be truly careful about what they believe from their supposedly raw writers of autobiograhy. The New York Times today is looking at another case of made up street violence and troubled childhood, “Love […]
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Today I downloaded the new Jack Johnson album, Sleep through the static. If you are a fan of Johnson’s music (and if you walk around any shop on the planet, it would seem you would be exposed to his album, In Between Dreams) then you won’t be disappointed. Since its the first album he’s […]
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Annie Taylor is speaking on ThoughtLeader about the Internet as a sensory organ. I couldn’t agree more, the Internet has an interminable ability to shift our senses and augment our perceptions.
But if that is the case, and it is, should South Africa consider its Internet (and particularly access) the equivalent of a prosthetic. Are […]
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There is nothing like a late night game of scrabble to create and forge new words in the furnace of competition.
Erin McKean, the popular dictionary evangelist would be proud of my friends and I as we had lengthy discussions on the truth and usability of words such as ‘liminal’ and ‘helixliar’ (Turns out ‘liminal’, […]
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There is an amazing artist based in Cape Town, by the name of Gavin Rain (this sounds like a ’stage name’ - but so what).
His paintings, which could be described as neo-pointilism, were at the Veo gallery in Cape Town a couple of weeks ago.
He explores portraiture, and uses a very printily […]
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I’m as self centred as the next person. And now Electronic Arts has given me (and others) a web site for me to create an incredibly realistic avatar for the web and any other digital properties (especially EA games).
It’s called Virtual Me, and it can be found here.
I’ve long been impressed by the […]
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Just come home from the cinema, and enjoyed a really surprising film from Hollywood in the cinema verite style: Cloverfield.
The acting is poor, but pretty unnecessary considering. It is an amazing experiment in presenting a film in a way not dissimilar to the way we now experience news through YouTube, CNN’s iReport et al. […]
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Sadly few may know this, but the Internet, and more accurately the World Wide Web was created as a tool for sharing ideas between academics. In an age when the Internet is more likely to help you pay your bills, check out your team’s latest results, and ogle the latest celebrity gossip and pics (as […]
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It’s raining (and storming and thundering) in Cape Town as I write, a lovely respite from the scorching heat of today. Maybe it’s just my evolutionary nature to like the rain, but like a good pseudo-northern-European the cold seems to make me more productive, 320 years of African breeding be damned (yep, the Huguenots […]
Filed under: Art, Business, Decision Theory, Ideas, work by Andrew la Grange
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