Busy week on this end, but time for some tomato sauce:
- A piece in today's Times about a variety of solar power that doesn't use photovoltaics, but instead heating a vessel to generate steam via a mirror array. I've seen this system in use before, although I wasn't aware it produced better overage than an array of traditional panels.
- Tartan USA has some new Blu-ray announcements, apart from Oldboy: A Tale of Two Sisters (which I was not a fan of, sadly), Lady Vengeance (YES), and Chan-wook Park's as-yet-unreleased I'm A Cyborg But That's OK, which from what I've heard sounds like a dud to me but I'm going to check it out regardless.
- Ebert has a fine piece on the Russian film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, now on DVD.
- Amazing bits of animation that use movie dialogue and typography. [NSFW]
- Watchmen main actors now have a great set of images.
- One of my favorite and perennially-underrated SF movies of all time, The Quiet Earth, is getting a re-release domestically.
More when I steal it, as always.
Hey Serdar,
Been reading you for a long time but never managed to comment. Good to have you back and writing, and belated congrats on the book.
"I'm a Cyborg but That's Okay" is a failure, but it's like watching a clown plummet to his doom in a flaming, psychedelic zeppelin, leaving the nagging suspicion that it was always part of his act.
Make sense? Me neither.
That is the best analogy I've heard all year so far. Thank you.