Archive for February, 2009
marine one helicopter scandal?
Who knew?
Via War and Piece comes a Huffington Post article about some apparent hanky-panky surrounding the awarding of a contract to build 28 new Presidential helicopters to an Italian aerospace firm:
“Obama Confronts a Choice on Copters” read this week’s New York Times . The President soon “will have to decide whether to proceed with some [...]
Digital Cinema by a dilettante
It’s not a pretty time to be a digital cinema camera manufacturer. There’s a crisis in the economy, film and tv production are down, reality television is supplanting dramatic content at an alarming rate.
And then there are the sensor wars.
In one corner, we have Panavision. Panavision probably needs no introduction to even casual [...]
new york
A while ago I announced that I was going to move to New York, and put up a surprisingly (to me) honest assessment of what that involved, practically and emotionally.
Now that I’ve been here for nearly 9 months, I want to start reflecting on that decision. Needs to be done.
I miss proper Mexican food. I [...]
the nerd in me approves of this
I’m not really a trek guy, but I can definitely see the appeal here. Beyond the boobs, I mean.
via kate klonick’s twitter
Design wankery
Via BoingBoingGadgets comes the supposed pitch book for the new Pepsi logo. Having worked in design firms, this all looks very familiar…
This 6MB PDF that is purported to be the pitch used by design group Arnell to sell executives at Pepsi on a new logo design is perhaps the most brilliant example of puffed up design faffery I’ve ever [...]
fincher speaks
I’m old enough to remember when there was only one photograph of David Fincher on the internet, and maybe one interview. Now he’s everywhere. Via Defamer, here’s a transcript of a talk he gave at a BFI Screening in England somewhere, where he gets surprisingly frank about lots of interesting stuff.
My favorite bits:
MS: Talking of fist-fights, we’re [...]
Finally a funny President
Intentionally funny, I mean:
–The President’s great unreleased lines: “I’m a casual admirer of Abraham Lincoln. … [He should have seen] my inaugural: He never drew crowds like that. … [To Senator Lieberman] No hard feelings because of the election. My door is always open. Feel free to drop by ANY SATURDAY AFTERNOON. … [To Gov. [...]