Weekly links
February 12th, 2007
- Paper Optimus Prime. Cut-out, fold, glue, save Earth.
- I can’t resist it. Charlie Booker, with a wink, flames the latest Apple commercials and Macs in general. Brilliant.
The ads are adapted from a near-identical American campaign - the only difference is the use of Mitchell and Webb. They are a logical choice in one sense (everyone likes them), but a curious choice in another, since they are best known for the television series Peep Show - probably the best sitcom of the past five years - in which Mitchell plays a repressed, neurotic underdog, and Webb plays a selfish, self-regarding poseur. So when you see the ads, you think, “PCs are a bit rubbish yet ultimately lovable, whereas Macs are just smug, preening tossers.” In other words, it is a devastatingly accurate campaign.
- Beatbox cookery - just brilliant. Thanks, Mike.
- Nice reading of Pan’s Labyrinth at Wired, an excellent Spanish language movie set in Franco’s Spain, that I saw at the end of last year. Interesting to read that the director, Guillermo Del Toro, sees the fantasy world of the heroine as existing objectively within the movie (read the comments).
- Robotperson loves embroidery graf.