Archive for May, 2008

Web rituals v cyber slavery

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

There’s a fascinating article in Granta about the web habits of highly effective people. Being a literary tome, these people are all journalists, writers and bloggers, which suits me fine.
Novelist A.L. Kennedy says: “I don’t blog or Facebook. If I want to write, I’d rather do it to some kind of definable end.”
Wise words, no [...]

South Park on the true impact of the internet

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

(link via Mark Jones on Filtered Media).

Sunshine in May

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Summer is here early in London. There are green leaves and flowers all over town, we’ve enjoyed beautiful sunshine for days on end, everyone is out enjoying picnics in the park, the pubs are doing a brisk trade in cider and Pimms (one of the quintessentially English signs of summer).
It’s actually unseasonally hot - it’s [...]

Persepolis at the Everyman

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Probably the best movie I’ve seen so far this year is Persepolis. It’s based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi and it’s an autobiographical account of growing up in Tehran and Vienna during the Iranian Revolution.
The movie basically animates Satrapi’s drawings, so it has a very distinctive style and it’s mostly in black and [...]