31 Aug 2010, 8:48 AM

Tags: black and white, Camargue, film, Leica

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Photography Let mrr be your tigrr

Camargue, France. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

28 Aug 2010, 2:58 PM

Tags: black and white, Bucharest, film, Leica, quotations

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Photography Imperial and forlorn like King Michael saying goodbye to Communist Romania

Bucharest. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

I found the title in a Leonard Cohen's novel from 1966. Here is the paragraph—you'll see why it stuck.

The telephones kept their steady black, the one stable shape in the shifting gloom. They hung there like carved masks, black, gleaming, smooth as the toes of kissed stone R.C. saints. We were sucking each other's fingers, slightly frightened now, like children pulling at lollipops during the car chase. And then one of the telephones rang! It rang just once. I am always startled when a pay phone rings. It is so imperial and forlorn, like the best poem of a minor poet, like King Michael saying goodbye to Communist Romania, like a message in a floating bottle which begins: If anyone finds this, know that —

—Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers.

26 Aug 2010, 8:10 AM

Tags: black and white, Bucharest, film, Leica

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Photography Let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie

Old building, Bucharest. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

21 Aug 2010, 2:32 PM

Tags: black and white, Dubai, film, Leica

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Photography Metropolis features special effects and set designs that still impress modern audiences II

Dubai. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

You might also want to take a look at the previous episode from the "Metropolis features special effects and set designs that still impress modern audiences" series.

18 Aug 2010, 10:18 AM

Tags: black and white, film, Leica, Singapore

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Photography Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmares into dreams

Singapore. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

15 Aug 2010, 4:53 PM

Tags: Angkor, black and white, Cambodia, film, Leica

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Photography Moving cross the borders of my secret life

Angkor, Cambodia. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

12 Aug 2010, 10:06 AM

Tags: black and white, Bucharest, film, Leica

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Photography You're asking me for Inception—I hope you do understand the gravity of that request

Street, Bucharest. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

9 Aug 2010, 9:27 AM

Tags: Angkor, black and white, Cambodia, film, Leica

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Photography Fortune comes in threes

Angkor temple, Cambodia. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

5 Aug 2010, 9:53 AM

Tags: Bangkok, black and white, film, Leica

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Photography Metropolis features special effects and set designs that still impress modern audiences

Street, Bangkok. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

2 Aug 2010, 9:19 AM

Tags: Angkor, black and white, Cambodia, film, Leica

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Photography There was a time when I knew everything

Near Angkor Wat, Cambodia. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

28 Jul 2010, 6:31 PM

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Travel According to legend he was a soldier

Store, Firenze. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

Sebastian, St. |siˈbas ch ən|
(late 3rd century), Roman martyr. According to legend he was a soldier who was shot by archers on the orders of Diocletian. When he recovered, he confronted the emperor and was then clubbed to death.

18 Jul 2010, 3:21 PM

Tags: black and white, Bucharest, film, Leica

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Photography You're gonna be gone before you get found

Street, Bucharest. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

14 Jul 2010, 4:41 PM

Tags: black and white, film, Leica, Monte Carlo

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Photography And birds came too, and wept for Snow White: first an owl, then a raven, and last a dove

Monte Carlo. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

7 Jul 2010, 9:53 AM

Tags: black and white, Camargue, film, Leica

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Photography Seven-thirty become eight and by then it was autumn

Camargue, France. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

4 Jul 2010, 1:51 PM

Tags: Brandient, humor, iPhone, video

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Life Brandient Bike Day

Brandient office, Bucharest. © Cristian Kit Paul. Click here or on the image to play video.

4 Jul 2010, 1:51 PM

Tags: applause, Brandient, Bucharest, business, iPhone, shopping

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Life Ciclissimo

My friend George Pop, Brandient alumni, and my Brandient partner Cristi Petre started a new venture: Ciclissimo, the best place in Bucharest for buying (and maintaining)—mainly, but not only—premium folding bikes: the British design icon Brompton and the likes, seven days a week.

Ciclissimo, Aviatorilor 13, București. © Cristian ·Kit· Paul. Click here or on the image to enlarge.

After buying no less than six bicycles from Ciclissimo (delivery and unpacking four of them being featured in Brandient Bike Day movie) I am in a position to both admire their enthusiasm and recommend them wholeheartedly.

Pay them a visit (right near Aviatorilor Square) and try some bikes on the dedicated lanes in front of the store—or follow Ciclissimo on Facebook.

Brandient 101

101 graphic identities created by Brandient between 2002 and 2010;
Bilingual edition in English and Romanian;
224 pages, hardcover, full color.

Buy: Brandient 101 on-line.

Marginalia

Notes and Streams

Star Wars as a silent movie

Join me and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.

Via Chishbak.

Leica and Hermès

Patrick Thomas, the head of the French luxury goods group Hermès is on the Board of Directors of Leica Camera.
Hermès has a 49% stake in the Japanese subsidiary of Leica.

Via LR.

Mac users, open Dictionary app and search "haiku" in Thesaurus

Enjoy.

We don’t wear suits

We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.

—One of Jobs’ deputies answer to an AT&T representative suggesting that the Apple CEO wear a suit to meet with AT&T’s board of directors, Wired.

Via DF.

New Flickr photo page

We will be rolling out the fresh features to the entire Flickr audience in the coming weeks, but why wait? The new photo experience is available for signed-in members to preview now. To opt-in, visit any photo page and follow the directions on top of the image.

—Josh Nguyen, A New Photo Experience: Your Photos, Happier on Flickr Blog.

Took them years to add a 'view on black' option — well, better late than never.

Hosed

Nokia’s CEO calls his new head of mobile devices, Anssi Vanjoki: 'Anssi, we’re hosed.'

A “science fiction” piece from Jean-Louis Gassée.

Via DF.

If you ever get close to a human

Computers and robots are doing things considered human a while ago.

And chimpanzees are doing things considered um, very, very human.

To paraphrase Ms. Goodall’s mentor, Louis Leakey, “Now we must redefine wittiness/dance/sex toys, redefine Man, or accept computers, robots and chimpanzees as human”.

Welcome to Mars, baby

Mars! Yeah, BP, that looks familiar, doesn't it.

Via KN.

Why everything sucks

So that’s why the vast majority of everything on the internet sucks. It’s because most of the people doing it, most of the time, just haven’t put in the hours yet. And most of them never will. So only a small percentage of all the people online will ever be vaguely good at whatever it is they’re doing.

But here’s the thing: I think this is beautiful.

—Derek Powazek, Why Everything Sucks, Why That’s Awesome, and How It’s Changing Us.

iPhone 4, specs, soul

So this is it: iPhone 4.

People comparing lists of specs will say "most of these things have been done before and are not new on the market, why the fuss?"

Short answer: Because state of the art design and unparalleled experience are not specs on a list. They are the very soul at the center of the Apple device. Specs are secondary.

Very short answer: Welcome to the post-specs world.

WWDC 2010 keynote live coverage

Live coverage of Steve Jobs' keynote at the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2010—Monday, June 7th, 10:00 AM in San Francisco (08:00 PM Bucharest time):

What's your favorite source?—leave a comment.

Adobe Digital Viewer

Adobe makes WIRED Reader Application public: Adobe Unveils Digital Viewer for Magazines.

This is kinda rudimentary right now, but could evolve into something great.

The art of app

Well-Placed Pixels — a visual record of beautiful software.

Via DF.

‘This is how Apple rolls’

They take something small, simple, and painstakingly well considered. They ruthlessly cut features to derive the absolute minimum core product they can start with. They polish those features to a shiny intensity.

—John Gruber, This is how Apple rolls.

AAPL > MSFT

Over those past five years, Microsoft’s stock has been largely stagnant: it’s up about 4%. Apple’s stock, meanwhile, is up some 550% over that same time frame.

MG Siegler, Boom, Indeed: Apple Passes Microsoft In Market Cap at TechCrunch.

They'll swap places back and forth for a while, but the trend is solid. Amazing.

Han Solo, carpenter

You may know this already, but Ford had already given up acting after American Graffiti. He kept in touch with George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola as a carpenter. He was working on a portico for Coppola's office when Lucas was casting Star Wars.

—Fred Topel, Harrison Ford FINALLY speaks out about Star Wars at Sci Fi Wire.

Shots

Roll