Salt, with Angelina Jolie, is pretty much a Bourne movie with the main, tortured hero as a female. And to think, Tom Cruise was once considered for the part.
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Salt
Salt, with Angelina Jolie, is pretty much a Bourne movie with the main, tortured hero as a female. And to think, Tom Cruise was once considered for the part.
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Netflix and creative destruction
Creative destruction is a concept of capitalism, where the business innovations of today, destroy the innovations of yesterday. Netflix is finding out that those red envelopes aren’t enough to keep the lights on forever and is investing heavily in video streaming technologies, lest they become like Kodak. Kodak just misjudged how fast consumers would give…
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Ones and zeros are free
On the plane this weekend, I watched David Hobby’s photo lighting seminar from his Lighting 102 material for Strobist.com. At one point he’s explaining that you don’t have to get the right exposure, and sometimes it takes some fiddling to get the proper combined flash and ambient exposure. You may need to take more than…
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Devour
You Tube’s recommended videos a little, meh? Tosh.0’s videos too random or mean-spirited? Devour is the site to cure your web video ills. Clean design that focuses on the videos. Good videos. Every now and then one will be no longer available. So, have a night with the friends and watch awesome You Tube videos.
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The Passage
Essentially, The Passage is a worthy literary attempt at a post-apocalyptic vampire zombie novel. The premise is solid–mysterious virus developed by the military is tested on random subjects, and then something goes wrong, and the the vampire zombies lay waste to anything with warm blood. Told over the span of a 100 years, Justin Cronin…
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Creativity and divergent thinking as a strategic national asset
Thomas Friedman views immigration and the melting pot that is America as a strategic asset of creation: …America’s most important competitive advantage: the sheer creative energy that comes when you mix all our diverse people and cultures together. We live in an age when the most valuable asset any economy can have is the ability…
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Bookshelf porn
Bookshelves are sexy, like the librarian with trendy glasses: Bookshelf Porn
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Detroit Art City
Economic collapse means you can build a lot for your buck amongst the rubble, especially if you’re an artist in Detroit. But its particular brand of civic and economic decay has also drawn something unexpected: a small but well-publicized movement of artists and other creative types trying to wring something out of the rubble. TED,…
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Play nourishes creativity
In publishing her latest book, Jillian Tamaki says this about the importance of play to the creative spirit: But I do sincerely believe that without personal work and comics, I might go nuts. For the most part, there is little Sense of Play in commercial illustration (there are a few glorious exceptions to this rule).…
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Coordinated camera flashes at a concert
At concerts, the pop of a camera flash is constant. You see it on TV at the Super Bowl or some other event. At a Robbie Williams concert, for a Nikon ad, he called upon the crowd to raise their cameras and take a picture. The result: