OK, I admit I just wanted to write that. But the movie actually looks pretty good! Here’s hoping for a film festival showing in Mumbai…or a torrent.
Urban Typhoon is a participatory urban planning workshop on the future of the Koliwada region of Dharavi, Mumbai’s staggeringly large and impossibly dense million-resident slum.
The objective is to produce creative alternatives for the future of a neighborhood threatened by a redevelopment plan of the government as well as a multimedia testimony to the unique [...]
Shai Agassi is an entrepreneur who has struck a multi-million dollar deal with Renault/Nissan and the Israeli government to bring electric cars to Israel (and eventually the world…) through his startup Better Place.
Pete Leyden from the New Politics Institute outlines Agassi’s transformative vision and announces that Agassi will be speaking at an upcoming NPI [...]
February 29, 2008 – 12:16 am
Posters from the 1972 blaxploitation classic. They just don’t make ‘em like they used to.
RIP Curtis.
February 13, 2008 – 12:17 am
Peter Kareiva, chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy, has an article in Science that builds on an idea which biologist Dan Janzen outlined several years ago in a Long Now talk entitled “It’s All Gardening.” Janzen’s talk centered on the unusefulness of the concept of wilderness as geography free of human influence and argued for [...]
February 2, 2008 – 12:25 am
Post-rock reviews are usually my brother’s territory, but I thought I would get into the act. I decided to check out This Will Destroy You because I thought their new album cover was hilarious, and I saw they were making t-shirts of it for people who pre-ordered the album. But then I started listening and [...]
February 2, 2008 – 12:09 am
Am I the only one who didn’t know that Alex Chilton of Big Star — of the excellent “The Ballad of El Goodo” and “Thirteen” — came to fame as the 16-year-old singer of this AM Gold classic?
Seriously? “The Letter,” by The Box Tops?
I had no idea. That 60s song and Big Star’s stuff occupy [...]
February 1, 2008 – 10:28 pm
This is so soothing, I love it:
For diehards, the original.
via copy,right?
February 1, 2008 – 10:16 am
Nice map from Dopplr showing all the cities their users visited over the last year, plus some stats on most popular flights, etc.
I’m just waiting for my Dopplr profile to be subpoenaed when the world passes global per capita carbon emissions cap legislation. All my airplane flights over the years, meticulously detailed with dates, [...]
