The bird with the Crystal Plumage is a complicated title in English,
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but wonderfully cryptic in Italian. It happens to be Dario Argento’s first title.
A classic thriller, one of the first to develop many of the classic ideas of the serial killer franchise. A murder and a witness who remembers there’s one thing which [...]
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I will never forget The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971!) and its Vincent Price performance. I love Vincent Price, period. And this movie is probably precursor to lots of horror cliches, along with the baroque theme of what variation of the-murdering-scheme-we’re-using-today, recently taken to unprecedented “depths” by the Saw series.
So today I was pretty [...]
Every now and then, in our so called free world, we must talk about censorship. This is a story of media and the freedom of the press, which is put in danger, in the US and elsewhere -in fact, everywhere- not by one government, but by the very world-class companies who govern the distribution of [...]
Great presentation on the Society of Learning (Sociedad del Aprendizaje) on the Prezi canvas. It’s a very well done concept, real multimedia storytelling in action!
It includes a short interview with Manuel Castells, videos on augmented reality, wearable computing, pillow fights in Wall Street, etc. By Cristobal Cobo Romaní (ergonomic.wordpress.com), from aprendizajeinvisible.com (Invisible Learning).
Nice little interview with danah boyd (@zephoria in Twitterland) in The Guardian of Dec. 9, 2009 (People looked at me like I was an alien). In the short pages of the article by Bobbie Johnson, there is space enough to mention three major issues of contemporary networking.
1. Boyd believes there’s no such thing as a [...]