Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
Shopping online is usually a solitary experience. It’s all between us and our computer. Electronic payments, automated messages, automated delivery, and the goods show up magically at our door (usually when we are not home) without any apparent human intervention. It’s convenient, efficient, anonymous, sterilized, and creepy. But in the world of The Long...
Watch Scott's first stop-motion animation featuring a thirsty bug and a green drink...
In November, I went to Italy to visit my family and I had a chance to meet a couple of times with my old friend Ariela Böhm. Ariela and I went to high school together. The year we graduated from high school we went on a camping trip through North Europe (Germany, Belgium, Denmark,...
A couple of weeks ago I travelled for work. One evening I found myself in the lobby of the hotel reading a free copy of USA Today left on a chair. I started thinking how rarely I read a true paper copy of a newspaper nowadays. Flipping through the pages of the newspaper, I...
Sorry, I could not pass this one. David Pescovitz at BoingBoing.net has published the link to the trailer of the movie adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly. The director is Richard Linklater, the guy who directed Waking Life. From the trailer it seems an awesome sci-fi animation movie. This summer, let’s go...
» Visit the 2006 Google Census Page . In January, I wrote a post on Google Earth in which I complained about the eerie lack of people on the virtual planet. Since then I have been alerted of human sightings on Google Earth. Derek first noticed people in Saint Peter’s Square and...