If you look in the side bar of this site you will find a widget called “What am I doing?”. In this my twitter updates show up. But what is Twitter you might think. Well, it’s something called micro blogging, but that is really a term that makes about as much sense as the later Nietzsche… [...]
Archive for the ‘New media’ Category
Why are Smileys not in the history books?
Posted in Humanities, New media, books, writing, tagged writing, typography, books, history, communication, smiley, parchment, cuniform, hieroglyph, blog, dilemma on September 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I recently began a course in the history of handwritten texts, and I must say it has made me think a lot about communication.
Throughout history we are inclined to think that we as a race have evolved into more and more advanced creatures, which in turn has led to more and more advanced communication. We [...]
Elephants Dream
Posted in Movies, New media, Streaming, apps, tagged blender, elephants dream, big buck bunny, open movie on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Due to “public demand” I have decided to post Elephants Dream here too. It is not as good looking as Big Buck Bunny, however it is interesting in many ways. Partly because of the open ended and rather mind bending story. The visual do take you on a journey through the mind. The other reason [...]
Big Buck Bunny
Posted in Movies, New media, Philosophy, Streaming, Tech, tagged blender, open source, 3d, animation, pixar, elephants dream, big buck bunny, floss, weekly on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Blender is an Open Source 3D animation program with a lot of promise. But perhaps the most intressting thing about it that there is also an Open Source based moviemaking community around it. They have previously released Elephants Dream which was OK, but nothing special. However, the look and feel of this movie, Big Buck [...]
The Twilit Theatre presents: Horror Express (1973)
Posted in Horror, Legends, Monsters, Movies, New media, Streaming, web 2.0, tagged Movies, cinema, christopher lee, peter cushing, hammer horror, archive.org on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
In a continuing theme of testing different things with wordpress, I decided to take VodPod for a spin. This is because, while I do like the blogging system that is wordpress, I find it extremely annoying that you can’t post Flash nor JavaScript. To a certain extent this is alleviated by VodPod. It’s a service [...]
Linotype FontExplorer X
Posted in Humanities, New media, Philosophy, Tech, apps, mac, web 2.0, writing, tagged atm, font, fontexplorer, fontfetishist, linotype, mac, typography on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
People who are into design and layout tend to be FF; Font Fetishists. As such it after a while tends to get difficult to keep track of all the fonts. And even thought Mac OS X handles fonts in a better way than the good old classic Mac System, there is still room for improvement.
So [...]













