kenyan sci-fi.

This is a sci-fi short film directed by a woman in kenya. takes place after water shortages have fucked up the world. Showing at sundance right now and I really wish I could go see it.  looks fucking cool

check this

Designers Unearth Apple Tablet Prototypes — From 1983

• By Priya Ganapati  
• January 22, 2010  |  
• 6:50 pm  |  
• Categories: Notebooks

Here’s a blast from the past: In the early 1980s, an industrial design firm helped create some early prototypes of tablets for a young Steve Jobs.

The tablet was called “Bashful,” in reference to the dwarf in the fairy tale Snow White. Bashful was created alongside the Apple IIe as an extension of the Snow White industrial-design language that Apple used from 1984 to 1990.

Now Frog Design, the firm that created those mock-ups, has unearthed some photos from its archives that show what the tablet might have looked like more than 25 years ago. With Apple expected to unveil its long-awaited tablet device on Wednesday, it seems like a good time to bring these photos out of the archives, Frog Design’s people thought.

There are none of the sleek contours that characterize Apple’s products today. But you can still see the emphasis on ease-of-use and a slim profile (relatively speaking, anyway). And it shows how long Jobs has been mulling the idea of bringing a tablet to market.

Variations of the Bashful tablet included one with an attached keyboard and one with a floppy-disk drive and a handle for portability. Some of the tablet prototypes included a stylus. And one concept even had an attached phone.

Frog Design also helped create the Apple IIc, the fourth in the wildly popular Apple II line of personal computers.

The Bashfuls never made it to market, and the prototypes are probably still in the hidden, underground storage vaults of Apple or Frog Design.

Take a look at more photos of the prototype tablets below.

Photos: Frog Design

Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/apple-tablet-1983#ixzz0dVxtBsQg

stupid me

fortress of el solitudo

song of today

this is a strange one. The Knife got asked to do the music for a danish theatrical interpretation of Charled Darwin's Origin of Species.  I want to find more of this.

Which is better?

Is it better to sit and watch tv, sometimes news or documentaries; or is it better to sit and play a video game?

   I had an argument a number of years ago with a room mate about how watching boxing is technically the same as watching two cartoon characters fight.   He was saying that the difference between the two is that one is fake and the other is real; therefore the real one is better, partially due to the spontaneous and unpredictability of it.  I was saying that those perceptions are just relative.
  My point was that all we as individuals sitting in the room together were particles of light shot onto our retina by way of the tv.  Therefore, no matter what we are watching it is technically the same as any other thing we will or have watched.  Be it animated or recorded the subject matter was combat between two humanoid shapes.  The unpredictability was proved moot when it was shown that neither of us knew what was going to happen next on either show.  As far as the act being created by the interaction between two humans, that is also proved moot as a manner of differentiation; flesh coming into contact with a material creating the excitement (gloves punching on face, pencil pushed on paper).   I even went so far as to say that the central figures in both programs wore costumes to make the difference between them more obvious and to help the viewer tell the difference between them; I also said that the environment in which the contest was being held was illuminated by bright and occasionally colored and flashing lights.  Shit is all relative; people like to deny that fact and are comforted by the unproven idea that perception is constant between all of us.
     Needless to say, nobody bought it.

Until we have the weird crab/mini-disc things from the movie "Strange Days" (mid 90's; Raph Fiennes, Julliete Lewis) there is no way we will ever be able to perceive the world another person sees it.  

We don't see objects, our retina translates the particles of light it pics up.  Who's to say that my eyes translate those particles the same way as yours.  To switch over to the ears, check out how the sound a rooster makes is vastly different between languages over the world. i.e. Spanish=Ki-Kiri-Ki; English=Cock-e-doodle-do.  Now a rooster doesn't really sound like either of those, it's just that our ears heard it differently and translated it from sound perception to a phoenitic(sic) translation.

Some might find this interesting, while others might find this inane and boring.  All I can say is, same words read in the same manner off the same source, from the same mind; just translated and perceived differently.  It's all relative



 

Back to the stars

So yeah, it's sad, but I'm watching revenge of the sith for the second time today.  It's been on and I've been cleaning, if I played music right now I'd want to go out do something more exciting.  Who cares though, the thing I wanted to share and laugh about is how Padme and Anakin say they can't tell anyone they're married; in reality what they would be saying is "we can't tell anyone we're fucking".  The next funny thing is that when the two of them were fucking he either forgot to wrap up/ had a leak, or she missed a dose; because they are both pretty surprised that she is knocked up.  For two people trying to keep their relationship secret you'd think they'd be on top of the ball when it came to birth control.

Time to go clean a sink