Mark Coleran is one of those responsible for many of the computer and device interfaces in feature films that cause us to simultaneously groan and say wow. His résumé includes Predator, James Bond, Tomb Raider, Mr and Mrs Smith, The Island, Harry Potter, The Bourne Identity, Blade 2, and a bunch of others.
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Costs of War
As a sin eater, you will be responsible for consuming the evil and sins contained within the corpses of normal decent folk…This position involves going to the house of such a dead person and sitting down to a bread and beer supper served up on the bare chest of the dearly departed.
Dutch farmers tip-toe through the tulips as their landscape is transformed into a spectacular display of colour.
Improbable Research Collection #101: The net, the flea, the duck and its lover
Improbable TV is a web-based series of three-minute videos. It’s all about research that makes people laugh, then makes them think.
I Came Alive by Hercules in NY
These guys are one of my all-time favourite indie bands. They describe themselves as an dance-pop-electro outfit from Melbourne. They’ve also recently released their debut single on iTunes.
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it‘s doing; but most of the time, we aren‘t either.
“...there are in actual fact over a dozen natural water courses flowing through Britain’s capital. Many of them played important role in the development of the city, as the location of mills, the source of drinking water and as open sewers. Most of them have been pushed totally underground, forced into culverts, out of sight and out of mind – even if some of them have left their mark on the city’s topology. This map shows and names some of those lost rivers of London, all tributaries to the Thames.”
BMW GINA Light Visionary Model
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Shift by John Woods Band
Some really interesting photography is starting to appear on GlobalCompassion.com. The aim of the site is to “display photography that reveals life (and stories from life) in people and cultures around the world.”
An ex-Jack Sparrow spills on life at the Magic Kingdom
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