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“Most laptops are like SUVs. You’re using most of the energy to move the car, not the person.”
Negroponte at AAAS (from Wired.com)
French/Peruvian clothes company Misericordia policies: ”The hourly rate salary of Misericordia’s workers is 35% higher the Peruvian minimum salary. Each employee receives a 15 months income (11 months of salary, 1 month of paid-vacation, 2 months of bonus and 1 month due to their future retirement and benefits of a health insurance. often based on the Peruvian minimum salary. The main objective of Misericordia is also to support each employee in his personal development by offering him some help beyond the financial part. Misericordia refuses to differentiate the salaries among men and women. Vacation maternities and paternities are set up. It should be underlined here that often in Peru , the young mothers are alone to raise their children and their situation is often very tough. Overtime is recovered by days off, in order not to overload the timetable of each worker and keep him close to his family.”
This time in a trailer for the movie Enchanted. Another (probably) horrid creation from Disney, but still…it got hair style.
This is something I need to do. Besides rabbits, this must be one of the most interesting things I’ve come across for some time.
Continue reading ‘Tracing a weird hairdo.’
On my quest to find movie discussions or analysis containing the subject “white space” or “negative space” I stumbled over the blog Lost in Negative Space. On this site I found plenty of interesting articles, but one in particular caught my eye: a wonderful little piece on… Rabbits!
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Got a small gift from my wife two weeks ago. It was a torn page from a book in a small frame.
Seems it’s a rather popular animal, and my perfect little specimen (with friends) can be found here.
The Tarsier never goes out of style, and it seems rabbits also have a similar tendency to stick. The Playboy Bunny is getting a bit too old and reeks of aging males moulded minds, but new additions to the ever growing family of bunnies is waiting in the background eager to take over.
First out in this modernized line of salad devouring mammals are the rabbits made famous by Angry Alien Productions. The creator Jennifer Shiman lets bunnies re-enact movies in 30 (!) seconds and she has to this date created over 25 short films parodying everything from Casablanca to The Ring.
Second addition: France (and Vincent Gallo) has always had a special relationship to bunnies. And until recently this relationship has been a purely national fetish. But now it seems the French take on “the rabbit of the future” is taking over the world. Developed by Violet, it’s called Nabaztag and it’s really cute. Nabaztag is the Armenian word for “rabbit”, but the Armenian connection ends there (except that one of Violet’s brilliant founders, Rafi Haladjian, is Armenian, born in Lebanon). This rabbit is wirelessly connected to the Internet and can provide it’s owners with plenty of information through Violet’s services. It can, for example, (in a more or less subtle way) notify when friends and relatives sends e-mail or connects to Google Talk. What’s interesting with this little critter is that it uses an open API. So if you are comfortable with and interested in the PHP/bunnies connection you should get your own bunny and start hacking away.
Third: If you feel rabbits are all to rare in your life you should seriously consider buying the soon to be released, new iteration of Ubisoft popular franchise: Rayman Raving Rabbids. You will definitely not be disappointed. It’s full of rabbits (or Rabbids). And it’s probably one really good excuse (of many) to buy the Nintendo WII.
Fourth addition: And we must never forget our dear rabbit friend in Donnie Darko.
6 October Update!
A recent, fifth, addition has arrived: Many of Strange Kiss’ wonderful creations are rabbits (or rabbitish). I especially like the Suicidal Bunnies!
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