Kit·Blog Notes

The Last King of Scotland: from jolly to appalling. Man, can Mr. Whitaker act! See it. Blood Diamond: don’t miss the day DiCaprio grows from a Shirley Temple cutie pie into a real actor. See it.

Brandient Top 50 Most Valuable Romanian Brands for BusinessWeek now available for download as PDF in English and Romanian.

Peruse Steve Jobs’ landmark Thoughts on Music essay and John Gruber’s notes on the subject matter.

Has the world forgot how to watch musicals (myself included)? How to write them (Hollywood included)? Or is Dreamgirls a bit too much for a broadwayless Europe? I don’t know. If passionate about music, see it.

Read about the themes of interest to me: design vs. advertising, branding vs. logos, Brandient and role models in my latest interview taken by Ana Militaru for IQads. [in Romanian]

RoBlogFest 2007 lists of nominations for your perusal. A collection of nominees’ feeds in OPML format is available for your RSS aggregators (quit your job and get ready to take in about 15000 unread posts including duplicates).

Voting is open now at RoBlogFest 2007 until March 1st. Go support your favorite blogs in the poll, but make sure you read the rules first. [in Romanian]

Highly praised and way overrated on both IMDB (7.8/10) and Rotten Tomatoes (82%), Little Children is an oddly paced letdown. See it if in need for something mellow or craving for a dose of Winslet.

Italy’s new logo and slogan — “Italy leaves its mark” — to promote tourism was designed by Landor Italy. As it always happens with this things, people automatically vociferate.

Best daily strip I’ve found in a long while: Wulffmorgenthaler. I cannot stop browsing through hundreds of archive items.