Kit·Blog Notes

Music video gang culture + middle-class kids + legal access to firearms = consequences beyond repair, as Alpha Dog [severely underrated with 6.7 on IMDB, trailer] demonstrates with nerve and aplomb. See it.

I managed to catch Tarantino’s sleazy new “Death Proof” [8.1 on IMDB] in a Copenhagen theatre (but without the other Grindhouse feature, Robert Rodriguez’s “Planet Terror”). It’s a 70’s-style beautiful, uncompromising piece of pop art, with signature dialogues and probably the greatest car chases in recent film history. If you like Tarantino’s style, don’t fuckin’ miss it.

Old school John McClane meets “Hello, I’m a Mac” in the 4th installment of Die Hard series, “Live Free or Die Hard” [8.4 on IMDB, trailer] and proves extremely difficult to kill with all things regulated by the UN Convention on Conventional Weapons. Saturday night? Buy enough pop corn and see it.

Lovely! This is blind text output from Just Another Foundry’s powerful on-line text generator dubbed Just Another Text Generator — which is definitely not, because this baby knows Romanian word parts!

Diesel leaves audience open-mouthed in Florence with “Liquid Spaces” holographic catwalk show created by the Spanish CGI animation studio Dvein using the amazing technology developed by the Danish multi-media production agency Vizoo. Download the video and have a look. [Via Cool Hunting]

Blog magCulture posts about Romanian “remix culture magazine” Omagiu — one of the ten titles invited to exhibit at Colophon2007.

“Freedom inhibits creativity. There are nothing like restrictions to get you thinking.” More in 10 Steps for Boosting Creativity.

Wikipedia entry: “Mon, also monshō, mondokoro, or kamon, are Japanese family heraldic symbols. Mon refers to any symbol, while kamon and mondokoro refer specifically to family symbols.” Now you know why Japanese symbol-based logos are so beautiful: tradition. [via PingMag]

Today, the seventh day in the seventh month of the seventh year — yesterday night, a bus with 00777 on the license plate.

For the young-hearted, the comics cultured and geek heads, Transformers (now seriously, 8.2 on IMDB?) may be the end of a long wait — for the rest, it’ll be the loudest screeching movie. If you feel like being part of the first category, see it.

iPhone is “like someone assembled the finest orchestra the world, but decided to leave out the trumpets”, says Mike Davidson, (yes, the inventor of sIFR). For one if the best iPhone reviews, read his Letting go of the Trumpets: A Week with the iPhone.

“Akeelah and the Bee” (7.8 on IMDB, trailer may be at times a little pedagogical, but it’s wholehearted and warm. If in the mood for a bit of harmless propaganda, go see it.

28 Weeks Later (7.5 on IMDB, trailer) keywords: Sequel, Infection, Blood Vomiting, Torso Cut In Half, Loss Of Mother, Eye Gouging, Arm Blown Off, Beaten To Death, Cut Into Pieces, Blood Splatter, Shot In The Head, Flamethrower, Exploding Body, Decapitation, Person On Fire, Twist In The End. I left the theatre in the first 28 minutes.

Many of you probably use them, so here’s a blog “dedicated to the proposition that not all notebooks are created equal” — Moleskinerie. [via BW]

Confusing and wonderful, like love, Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep / La Science des rêves (underrated with 7.6 on IMDB, trailer, Wikipedia entry) is the gem of a movie you’ve been waiting to see ever since you were a teenager. Do not miss it!

I laughed until I turned blue reading Scott Adams’ post for today. Read Bull Schadenfreude — highly recommended.

You may be thinking, look, there’s Evan Almighty (kinda Bruce Almighty 2, 6.0 on IMDB, trailer) in cinemas, that might be a nice movie for the weekend. Don’t think that. Avoid.

Why “Arial is little more than a shameless impostor”? Read The Scourge of Arial.

IDEO took seven IDEA awards, four gold, one silver, two bronze, plus four Catalyst prizes at 2007 International Design Excellence Awards. Read about it in BusinessWeek’s Best Product Design Of 2007 (or jump directly to the slide show).

For “the most important facts, articles and resources related to copyright issues, law and blogging” regarding copyright on the web, read Copyright Explained: I May Copy It, Right? Wrong.

Our esteemed Lektor — reputable representative of blogging diaspora — acts like a brand champion (or brand evangelist, if you will) on behalf of brand Copenhagen. Watch the movie, and you’ll understand why. I know I did (1, 2, 3, 4).

If you need explanations apropos what The Simpsons Movie (8.6 on IMDB, trailers) is all about, stay home. Feed the cow, or something. Otherwise you do not afford to miss it.