Check out my post on Iran in SearchViews – there are two revolutions happening now. One is in Iran (hopefully) and the other is in news media.
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Film News: David Carradine Found Dead in Bangkok
Saturday, June 6, 2009
David Carradine, the eternally zenlike star of Kung Fu on TV and recepient of one of wunderdirector Quentin Tarantino’s late-career comebacks in Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 was found hanged today in his Bangkok hotel room. It’s not clear at this time if the death is a suicide. Carradine was a scion of one [...]
Twitter: Re-Tweet Tuesday
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
In the spirit of Follow Fridays my compadres and I, @mcancino @hanana, @brooklahn, @amandaburke and @EstherLily have started RTTuesday – where we re-tweet some of our favorite posts from the last week.
The idea is to take advantage of one of Twitter’s best functions – link and information sharing – while also highlighting some great people [...]
Car Design: Bangle Dangles
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Chris Bangle, BMW’s controversial chief designer, has announced his retirement from the company and indeed the entire auto industry. While this is understandable considering the scarcity of good jobs in the autoverse right now, Bangle is simultaneously one of the most loathed and influential modern car designers.
2007 7 Series
The American born Bangle’s “flame surfacing” design [...]
Movie Review: Aronofsky’s The Wrestler Grapples with Rourke’s Past
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Mickey Rourke’s face – puffed, spongy, semi-mobile, is like a relief map of failure in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, a sports drama that struggles semi-successfully to transcend it’s genre. To the degree that it succeeds Rourke, Marisa Tomei, and Aronofsky deserve the credit for sharply grounding the film in reality. Likewise, it’s shortcomings are again [...]