October 2010

Starbucks Digital Network froths Content at the Cafe

October 29, 2010

Remember when cafes were limned with disheveled books and the scattered innards of newspapers, all free-for-the-taking? Cafes have long been a haven for browsers of both of the literary and digital sort, which has not been lost on Starbucks. Now you can get your media and caffeine fix at the same time, thanks to the [...]

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iPad Typewriter

October 28, 2010
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If you came of age during the Reagan regime as I had, chances are your Cold War-inspired paranoia thawed a bit when exposed to the retro-future climes of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. The quasi-familiarity of the film’s lo-fi hi-tech (retrofitted typewriter keyboards, magnifying lenses over tiny cathode ray tube screens) made somehow quaint an otherwise dystopian [...]

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Daedalus vs. FutureBot | Yonkoma & Fumetti Experiment

October 26, 2010

Screenwriting guru Sid Field is known for his autocratic adherence to the proverbial three-act structure but few beyond manga artists employ the even more demanding 4-cell Yonkoma structure for visually-driven narrative. Like many Japanese art forms (like, um, haiku and, er, sushi), Yonkoma puts an emphasis on economy. Behold, the four basic concepts (liberally adapted [...]

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Yeah We Know | Still in the Dome

October 20, 2010

Sonoma State University students trapped in a 2 year experiment… in a dome. Thety started a band to raise enough money through sales of their music and merch to buy out their contracts.

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