Archive for May, 2007

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Rhapsody in Felt

May 8th, 2007

Muppet Newsflash has the goods on the upcoming Muppet Show Season Two DVD box, set for release in August. One thing the post doesn’t mention is whether the “Muppet Morsels” from the season one box will also be used on this one. I hope so. Pop-up factoids are rare on TV show season sets, and […]

Book Review: Core Memory

May 7th, 2007

I have a strange affinity for wall-sized computers in old movies. Banks of blinking lights and spinning reels of magnetic tape made for nice background scenery, but they’re nothing compared to the real stories behind those early, rare and expensive computers. These pioneering machines are explored in an unexpectedly sumptuous way via Core Memory: A […]

The Year We Made Contact

May 4th, 2007

This trippy animated segment from PBS’s 3-2-1 Contact really wowed me as a kid. I used to watch these every day after school and (geek alert) draw pictures and write about the topics covered. Even after hours I was a good little student, damnit! Interestingly, the initial batch of sixty five 3-2-1 episodes were repeated […]

Mise en Scène

May 2nd, 2007

Been watching a lot of movies lately:
The Best of Youth (2003; DVD) — Not strictly a film but a six-hour Italian miniseries brought to two DVDs. This saga of two brothers’ intertwining lives from the 1960s onward takes a while to get into, but once it gets going one is rewarded with an absorbing story […]

Mold-y Oldies

May 1st, 2007

Nicely photographed vintage plastic items from the collection of Brazilian designer and flickr user Gerson Lessa. Gotta show this to the s.o., curator of PlasticLiving.com. If it was poured into a mold, he loves it.
Via the newly WordPressed Robot Action Boy.

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