Common People

Never live like common people do...

Happy New Year!

After a great holiday in Hamilton and New Year's in Montreal, I'm glad to be back and at work. Happy 2008 to everyone and make sure that before the days start flying by and the rat-race continues, you take a moment to sit back and reflect on the year that just passed. Christmas and especially New Year's Eve always remind me of how fleeting time can be, and how its my most valuable asset when I have it. I'm going to try to really appreciate the next few days and try to change the pace at which I live my life. It is possible to slow down, and rather than just 'keeping busy' and returning to the status quo this is the time of year to try to gain a new perspective on what it is you do and how you spend your time, and more importantly, your thoughts. There's a reason everyone around the world celebrates the New Year and its worth dwelling on that idea. Well, enough philosophy, back to taking it easy...

Arden & Indiana University

I love the name of this program: The Synthetic Worlds Initiative. Sounds a little scary and Gibson-esque, but also really rad. Their marquee 'world' is Arden based on Shakespeare. The website for the program is rather nice especially for a university.
Arden

Icarus' Ilk

Sometimes people do things that dwarf our everday experiences. These are those people:

NYTimes article on 'Flying People'

Great Media Player

www.jeroenwijering.com

It can play anything!

Graffiti Research

Graffiti Research Lab - kinda geeky and corny, but I can't really blame em. If only they hadn't mentioned "Style Wars" as such an inspiration. That sounds way too try-hard hipstery. Graffiti has been around in YOUR city for at least 20 years now, a movie shouldn't have to tell you that.

A good article from WIRED showing that there's more to it than those cats above. Especially the German subway submergence.

Superawesome

This is probably one of the coolest things I've seen on the web in a long time. There's even a Director Demo version on the web page. Essentially its an application that allows you to analyze and manipulate frames of film in incredibly interesting and beautiful ways.

http://www.recreating-movement.com/