For those who can’t afford the $4400 USD to attend TED, watch or download the TED Talks or add it to your iTunes viaTED Talks Podcast. They will be adding a new one each week, so visit regulary.
Update.
Sir Ken Robinson’s talk about Creativity in Education and Hans Rosling talk about Using data creatively are my favourites out of this batch.
Akina’s creator, Lang will be on tele as part of Noise on screen. Check it out, Episode 2 - 10pm, Tuesday July 4.
KLEFT will be sold at the Semi-Permanent shop in Sydney. Thanks Andrew for having it there and the early copy of the 3 cm thick Semi book, its chock full of inspirational goodness.
Second post about Steve Pavlina.com. His new article is a good read and is pretty much an overview of all the great articles he’s written. 10 ways-to optimise your normal days.
To anyone out there who contacts me via email, I have changed my email address and will no longer be using the ds9r(AINSERTHEATSIGNHERE)ds9r.com one any longer. I’ve had that email for over 6 years and through the course have somehow collected a nice list of companies wanting to sell me everything from v-i-a-g-r-a to genuine Rol-lex watches to people contern about my Citigroup Bank account. Enough is enough. So now I’ve set up a new one.
Its d(INSERTHEATHINGHERE)ds9r.com
Feels weird not getting 30+ spam emails a day and having to go through the process of deleting them.
We were fortunate to have picked two great movies to watch over the weekend at the State Theatre, this was the first opportunity I’ve had to watch something in there and the venue is absolutely beautiful, the walls, the lighting, the ceilings and sculptures.
Perhaps Love was full of supprises, it started off very cheesy and the word love was sung or spoken too many times to reiterate that this movie was about love, but it soon became emersive to watch. It was set as a movie in a movie in a cabaret/circus style in a flash back interwoven between past and present story. Half the film was shot under Chris Doyle, so if you like his lavish colours and sensibility in many of his films for Won Kar-Wai you won’t be dissappointed here. Director Peter Chan talked about the movie afterwards and gave some very insightful information about the movie, one of which, they used a Bollywood choreographer (Farah Khan) to choreograph all the dancing in the movie. Very different for a Hong Kong film.
In 1977, North Korean spies abducted a string of Japanese people and smuggled them back to North Korean for the purpose of teaching intelligence agents how to impersonate the Japanese, they took ordinary people who could show mannerisms that the Koreans did not know how to act like. Abduction - The Megumi Yokota Story is based on this heart wrenching ordeal suffered by the families whose loved one were abducted and specifically the Family of Megumi, the 13 year old who was taken amongst others.
This story is probably unknown to the majority in Australians but its one of the main issues in Japan, going all the way up to the highest levels, affecting diplomatic talks between North Korea and Japan.
As the story unfolds, you are left with dismay and for me, disgust and anger and sadness at what the abductees and the families are going through, their whole life is shattered. This is one of those moving stories that make you look at life in a different light, it makes you appreciate everyone around you and that it can all be taken away just like that.
This really brought back memories about my own experiences of Missingness and of the time I spoke at the Arncliffe Uniting Church meeting families of people who have gone missing and seeing their faith and hope in being reunited with their missing loved ones.
Go Socceroos! What a climax when all hope looked like it was gone. Great game.
These two chaps won’t be two happy when they find themselves between some sandwich slices slicked with butter.
Two reasons why the new Macbook is cool… besides being black.
We checked out the Painting for Joy exhibition at the Japan Foundation in Sydney today. Yoshitomo Nara’s paintings were gorgeous and really stood out above the rest by far. The exhibition is on until the end of June at the JF, on the first floor of Chifley Tower.
Since the soccer world cup is upon us, here’s a designers world cup, T-1 World Cup, 13 countries, 24 designers. Good to see Hamansutra amonst the lot as he was featured in KLEFT recently.
The Sydney Film Festival is on again, I’ve never been in past years so making an effort to go this time around. We’re catching Perhaps Love and Abduction, The Mehumi Yokota Story at the State Theatre next. I’ve never been in the ST to see anything so it should be good, its so grand and ornate in there.
dlog is by