I’m watching Sigur Rós’ Heima right now — a documentary film about their free 2006 Iceland tour. It is a great DVD for everybody who likes Sigur Rós or Iceland.
Last year, in the endless magic hour of the Icelandic summer, Sigur Rós played a series of concerts around their homeland. Combining both the biggest and [...]
A Scanner Darkly — the movie adaption of Philip K. Dick’s great novel.
What does a scanner see? I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner … see into me — into us — clearly or darkly? (Bob Arctor, A Scanner Darkly)
Great dystopian novel and fantastic movie adoption. [...]
Read Article »Visiting Iceland this summer was wonderful. Seeing the impressive landscape lets you understand the origins of Sigur Rós’s music. Listening to their music while driving on Icelandic roads is just perfect.
On November 5th Sigur Rós is planning to release the documentary Heima (at home) about their 2006 tour on Iceland. Watching the trailer makes me [...]
PingMag — the Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” — talked to Joe Nishizawa who took pictures of Japan’s giant underground installations1:
A enormous underground tunnel that runs through 40metres under the Hibiya Junction Tokyo or an underground dome that lies 500metres below deep in the mountains of Gunma…? In Japan unimaginably large spaces underneath [...]
Though I’ve never been a fan of Star Wars this is very amusing. The people at blinkenlights.nl still operate their ASCII art version of Star Wars after more than four and a half years. (Nearly an eternity for the internet.)
Start your favorite telnet client and connect to towel.blinkenlights.nl (use Apple’s Terminal.app, Microsoft’s cmd.exe and Linux [...]
Apple likes to think different. And so they did in 1984 while introducing the Macintosh.
Apple not only hired Ridley Scott after he finished filming “Blade Runner” to produce the famous 1984 commercial but Apple also bought the whole 39 pages of Newsweek’s advertisement space in late 1984 to introduce the Macintosh.
A funny thing happens [...]
Das Festival
… gab es 2002 zum dritten Mal. immergutrocken.de verrät einiges über die Geschichte des Festivals und deshalb möchte ich mich nicht mit trockenen Daten aufhalten (Faulheit? Nein!) und nur soviel sagen:
Dieses Jahr (31.05. & 01.06.) gab es 4000 Besucher auf dem Festival. Die Karten (20€ + VVK) wurden limitiert, obwohl noch einige Leute mehr [...]