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Modern Times: a short film by London-based art director BC2010 which has totted up over 125,000 hits on Vimeo in the last two weeks.
A mouthwatering, if slightly optimistic, glimpse into a future world of space-craft, intelligent interfaces and transformer-esque workstations that magically materialise from the floor.
And here’s how they made it.
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We’ll see ourselves out.
“When darkness can fall so deeply in different ways it’s important to recall the brighter moments in life and human experience.”
He said from his Palace, being served tea by an arthritic nun while sitting by a crackling fire, the briquettes of which were paid for by the last few poor, old people who still believe this vacuous, aphoristic crap.
Brady Calls For Positive Attitude (Patsy McGarry, Irish Times)
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In Shinchi Maruyama’s photographs, handfuls of water tossed into the air become flowerbeds or perfect cylinders. An amalgam of sculpture, performance, and photography, Mauyama’s work reveals how much beauty can occur in the blink of an eye.
Computer engineer, Jay Maynard, who wears an electroluminescent suit inspired by Tron, was told he was not welcome at screenings of Tron: The Legacy at his local cinema if he came suited up. Cold.
Do they – the geek hatas – know it’s Christmas time at all?
They do Tron Tron Tron they do Tron Tron.
No they don’t.
Tron Guy Banned From Seeing Tron In His Tron Suit (Slash Gear)
Irish Nationwide is to receive €5.4bn in taxpayers’ money. It lost €2.4bn last year after reckless property lending, which took place during Finger’s reign.
A time when he was his own Santa.
And, according to a newly published report, the Nationwide board were his little elves.
“After Mr Fingleton agreed to stay on for a year – after reaching his 70th birthday in January 2008 – he received a 10 per cent increase on his salary and payments of €400,000 and €50,000 to compensate for loss of director’s fees.
“The board wanted him to stay on to lead loan recoveries and to give it time to find his successor. His pay, bonuses, fees and benefits totalled €2.417 million for 2008, up €104,000 over 2007.
The report says Mr Fingleton also received a €1.4 million bonus in 2007, €1 million bonus in 2006 and a €500,000 bonus in 2005.
“In the six years to 31st December 2008 Mr Fingleton’s total package increased from €1.2 million for the year ended 31st December 2003 to €2.4 million,” the report says.
Mr Fingleton enjoyed salary increases of 9.5 per cent a year from 1992 to 2008, and he was entitled to an annual pension of €890,000 based on his final yearly salary of €1.34 million. The report described Mr Fingleton’s €27 million pension fund as “generous”.
Fingleton’s €1 million Bonus Unquestioned – Report (Irish Times)
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The warped kaleidoscope of sound and vision that is the ‘Expectation’ video. Directed by Clemens Habicht in a forest just outside of Paris on a day off during Tame Impala’s European tour, the band spends a day in the autumn wild with a 360° camera and a few flares for company.
