Sin City

June 10, 2005 | Movies

I went to see Sin City yesterday. I’ve never been a fan of comic books or graphic novels but this looked really nice, and being a sucker for anything that tries to be different, had to give it a try.

The film is styled very closely to it’s source, pretty much everything is in black and white (mainly black) with the very occasional splash of vibrant colour. Apart from the actors and a few props pretty much everything in the film was made inside a computer and it turned out very nicely indeed. Robert Rodriguez, the director, has said that the film was a ‘translation rather than an adaptation’ of the original graphic novels by Frank Miller. The film was storyboarded using panels from the books and a number of the scenes match the

A new member of the family

June 5, 2005 | General

Last weekend my parents got home from a hard day at work (they own a pet shop) and with them brought a new member of the family. We now have a pet dog.

He’s not the first dog we’ve had, and is far from the only pet we’ve got in the house. Currently there are 3 cats, 3 tortoises, 2 rabbits, and 3 aviaries full of various types of bird (budgie, cockatiel, quail and a few different types of parakeet). Now we’ve got Skip to add to the collection.

At the moment he’s a bit of a git, eating anything and everything, and basically ignoring everything you tell him to do or, more importantly, not to do. He’s a puppy though so we’ll let him off for now.

The cat’s aren’t too fond of him, two just about tolerate him (one of them fights back) but the youngest has hardly been …

Phallic Logo Awards

June 4, 2005 | Links

Look away if you’re easily offended; it’s perfectly safe for work and actually not very offensive at all (in my opinion) - but I figured I should give some sort of warning.

There is something very Freudian about these logo designs. The funny (worrying ?) thing is they were probably designed with the best of intentions. I’m not sure whether to be more concerned about the people that designed the logos or the people who thought they looked like winkies.

A stolen meme

June 2, 2005 | General

It was my birthday last month (April) and my parents bought me a very cool mp3 player. It has only been on sale since the 20th of May so this week it finally arrived.

I decided not to get an iPod because… well… everyone’s got one. So I asked for, what I thought, looked like a better option.

The Sony HD5 (the name isn’t as catchy as the iPods) has a replacable, rechargable battery that lasts up to 30 hours which is considerably longer than an iPod’s. It can also be used as a portable hard drive (don’t know if that’s possible with an iPod or not?) which is very handy.

Another cool thing is that that the remote control ear phones that I got with my portable cd player work with the mp3 player, so I don’t have to keep getting the thing out just to change track/ …

Vintage Products

June 1, 2005 | Links

A photoshop contest where current products were made to look old (vintage).

The Gameboy Advance SP and wooden Xbox are particularly cool