We saw Michael Haneke’s film Cache the other night. It is definitely the type of movie that lingers in your head for days after viewing it leaving more questions than answers in its wake.
Focussing on the deception and guilt that arises when the past of a well known TV intellectual comes back to haunt him, the movie takes for its backdrop the current unsettled divide between Paris’ rich and poor giving the viewer a subtle but threatening sense that the tensions could boil over at any moment. Hanneke takes …

I was recently interviewed for a short piece in the Globe & Mail by Nicholas Dinka on the importance of having a good logo. You can read my rather harsh take on some recent Canadian logo design here.

Lisa Rochon of the Globe & Mail has just finished her Seven Wonders series for the newspaper with a focus on architecture “both historic and modern … but only if the works are still intact and accessible to visitors.” It is a great list, but one which immediately had me searching the net for more images and information on the celebrated structures.
So after reading Rochon’s choices and her rationale behind each one, check out these links for further insight into what makes these seven so wonderful:
1. Casa de Barragan, …

I would suspect that there are few people out there who would proudly post the entire laundry list of their Google search queries on any given day. Sometimes the wee midnight hours can inspire some twisted cyber journeys. Being on the receiving end of such quests can be quite amusing. I use tracksy to check this site’s traffic records and every so often I get a very enlightening glimpse into the stranger habits of some of my visitors. For example, I take great pride in the fact that broome:ideas and …

I hate to admit that I wasn’t a huge fan of Sin City. It was a visually stunning and oh-so-cool piece of cinema to be sure. But I lament the moment when post-modern irony became synonymous with gratuitous ultra-violence and storyline fell sway to pure style. I love a good and bloody castration scene as much as anyone, but I want it to lead somewhere further than another good and bloody castration scene.
So perhaps I am setting myself up for a similar end with Christian Volckman’s Renaissance. But with …

It seems Jeroen Witvliet has been busy with a new series called Text and more panels added to his Pan-orama series. Enjoy.
For more info, check out my interview with Jeroen here.

Sometimes it really does pay to look in the complete opposite direction to find what you are looking for. Case in point: after a solid half day of typing in search queries like “mathematical models” and “processing genetic animations”, I took a break and followed a link from 3 Quarks Daily to Seed Magazine to read an article about Science and the Simpsons. In doing so, I discovered this flash experiment called Phylotaxis by Jonathan Harris, which is pretty much exactly what I was searching for in …