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Archive for November, 2007
Pabst Blue Ribbon Water
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
As I was on the ICE from Frankfurt to Hamburg this gentleman pulled out a Pabst Blue Ribbon bottled water. He had just returned from a two week vacation in China where he had bought the water.
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iPod Touch
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
When the iPhone made its debut I was delighted by its utter simplicity and intuitiveness. The innovative touch interface combined with Apple’s experience in hard and software made it the item to have. Alas, being in Germany I was not privy to getting one when they came out. While visiting my family this summer I did have a chance to check it out at the local Apple store but decided to wait it out. Good thing I did as the iPod Touch came out a bit later and I had my sister pick one up. With the dollar at an all time low against the Euro it was worth the $399 or €250.
So, the device itself is most definitely the best iPod ever. And after a jailbreak all the applications on the iPhone can be used on the iPod. Google Maps is a delight to use as well as the Nintendo emulator. It’s so intuitive, Ellis is able to even use it.
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Ridley Scott on Blade Runner
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Wired interviews Ridley Scott on his direction of Blade Runner. On physical vs. digital:
I think less is more. When you see an explosion where no one could have survived that explosion, and the person is still running, then it’s bullshit. And that’s frequently why they’re just not as good, you know. Whereas when you’ve got to do it physically, you’ve got to be careful — like really careful. And it’s different. With digital the painting book is unlimited, and there are advantages and disadvantages, you know. The world in, say, Lord of the Rings would have been nothing like as impressive as that 30 years ago, as it is today where he can literally do anything. Although I must say Star Wars was one of the first — the one that George [Lucas] directed is still, honestly, the best by far. There was the beginning of some interesting digital thinking in that one. [Stanley] Kubrick really showed the way with 2001: [A Space Odyssey], where he had some very simple variations and versions of digital work. It was not digital so much as computer-driven shots. And that was [Douglas] Trumbull. Trumbull was working with Stanley. They got through that pretty magnificently. That was the first of the really great science fictions, where I went, “Wow, that works.” Everything up to that one, I always felt, was a bit too much fantasy and not enough reality.
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