PingMag is a blog about design. Based in Tokyo, it tends to emphasize design in Japan, but the blog defines design pretty broadly, and ranges across a broad spectrum of subjects. That broad spectrum, and the surprises in it, are all part of the fun of reading PingMag. Read the rest of this entry »
I just finished reading the third issue of A Public Space. I haven’t read the first two issues, but if the one I read is any indication, this is a great new literary journal. Read the rest of this entry »
Wholphin is a quarterly DVD magazine that presents unusual short films and videos. I had been hearing about this magazine for a while when I finally got around to checking out issue number 3 - and it is really good!
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Simplicity: The Art of Complexity is the catalog of the 2006 Ars Electronica festival. Just as cool as, or maybe cooler than, Burning Man, Ars Electronica is worth checking out. See their site (linked above) to get an idea of what they’re all about. Read the rest of this entry »
Are you wearing blue jeans right now? Do you know where they were made? More importantly, what do you know about the lives of the people who made them?
China Blue shows a small part of those lives. The main person in this documentary is Little Jasmine, a 17 year old girl who has left her family in Sichuan to work in a factory in Guangzhou (a two-day train ride away in south-eastern China) so that she can make money to send home to help her family. Read the rest of this entry »
The author of Indexed, Jessica Hagy, creates humorous and insightful charts on 4″x5″ index cards that are unique.
My favorite card looks at the connections between Magic, Food, Money, Love, and Sleep.
Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers by Michael Berry is comprised of interviews with contemporary Chinese directors.
These interviews give a good deal of insight into the world of contemporary Chinese film and some of the more notable directors working in it.This book goes beyond the Fifth Generation directors, and includes directors working in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Read the rest of this entry »
Most of us give presentations of one sort or another - sometimes we’re giving presentations without even realizing it. Something as basic as a job interview can be as much a presentation as giving a speech or teaching a class. With a little learning and thought, we can do better at each of these tasks - and have more fun at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »
Like other film-producing regions that aren’t in the mainstream of cultural consciousness, Arabic films are hard to find (and find out about). Arab Film Distribution makes it easier to find out about Arabic cinema. Read the rest of this entry »
Here are some links for useful online XMLHttpRequest information:
From the Apple Developer Connection, the article Dynamic HTML and XML: The XMLHttpRequest Object gives a quick overview of the topic.
From Microsoft’s Microsoft Developer Network, there’s a description of how MS handles IXMLHTTPRequest”>IXMLHTTPRequest. For fun, view the source of this page - it uses nested framesets! (please don’t flame me for pointing that out)