Apologies to all the other brilliant Valentine's e-greetings at someecards, but this is the only one you should need to truly prove your love. [someecards]
How to Say "I Love You More Than My iPhone" [Image Cache]
Wired Magazine Launching iPad Edition By This Summer [Ipad]
We knew it would come and we've seen demos, but at this year's TED conference Wired Magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson confirmed that the publication would hit the iPad this summer. Unfortunately there aren't details regarding digital subscription costs yet.[Wired]
I Am For Space Commerce – But Only In My District
Obama's Move To End Constellation Prompts Industrial Base Questions, Space News
"This is not money-saving. This is having some kind of half-baked scheme that we can commercialize this," said Bishop, whose district is home to ATK Space Systems, the Magna, Utah-based solid-rocket motor manufacturer that is building the first stage of Constellation's Ares 1 rocket and major subsystems for its launch abort system. ATK executives told investors Feb. 4 that canceling Ares 1 would cost the company $650 million in contract backlog."
Here’s What Final Fantasy For iPhone Will Look Like [IPhone Apps]
I'm more excited about Final Fantasy 1 + 2 coming to the iPhone than just about any upcoming iPhone game. It's Final Fantasy! For iPhone!
This is what it looks like in motion. You still have to use the traditional iPhone control scheme of putting your left thumb over 1/6 of the screen, and your right thumb over another 1/6. But still, it's not like this is an action game where you need to see everything on the screen at once. And that's why it'll theoretically transition well to the iPhone, letting you pick up the action whenever you've got a free second, but being able to save/pause when it's your turn at the post office. [Crunchgear]
‘Mapping Futurism’ in Florence (Feb 15-16)
Mapping Futurism
February 15-16, 2010
Florence, Italy
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
PRESS RELEASE
Mapping Futurism
15-16 February 2010, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
At the end of the centenary celebrations marking the publication of the first Futurist Manifesto in 1909, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz is holding an interdisciplinary Study Day with the aim of examining the role of Italian Futurism within the international avant-garde movements.
The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut is furnished with an extensive art-historical library which includes among its holdings on modern and contemporary art in Italy an outstanding special collection of some 500 original publications from the period of Futurism. At the same time the Institute is situated in a historically important centre of Futurism, given that Florentine Futurism firmly opposed the political line represented by the founding father of Futurism, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, in Milan. So Florence is an ideal place in which to examine the question how far the Futurists really could claim to be precursors of the international avant-gardes, as “primitives of a wholly renewed sensibility”, as they called themselves.
Artistic movements such as Futurism, Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism radically opposed the traditional concept of art at the start of the twentieth century. Common to them all was the cultural context of a period of revolution and of groundbreaking discoveries in science, technology, psychology and medicine. They were also united by the ambition to create a new kind of art that would correspond to an image of the modern world. Yet at the same time these movements were national developments, each with its own intellectual background. They sprang from the different political situations in the individual countries.
The aim of the Study Day is critically to examine, from an international perspective, the claim of Futurism to have played a leading role in these movements. That claim was proudly enunciated by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1932, when he said that “the artistic revolution begun by the Futurist movement [.] has created or influenced numerous avant-gardes”. The main focal point is the effect Futurist positions – their reception and influence – had on other art forms. The attempts of Futurism to distance itself from other avant-garde movements will also be analysed.
The evening lecture by Linda Dalrymple Henderson on “Boccioni, Futurism and the Energies of Modernism” will conclude the Study Day with a look at common fields of interest of the artistic avant-gardes at the start of the twentieth century. Apart from new scientific discoveries, her lecture will focus, among other things, on late Victorian ether theory and occult phenomena as sources of energy and inspiration for Futurist artists.
The proceedings of the Study Day will be published in the Florentine journal Semicerchio. Rivista di poesia comaprata in its next issue, which will be dedicated to the impact of the Italian avant-garde in Holland, Poland, France and the USA.
Pro Firenze Futurista – Digital Archive on Futurism in Florence
The Study Day will open with a presentation of the website Pro Firenze Futurista, a project of the Library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz in cooperation with the Biblioteca Marucelliana. The foundation of a Digital Archive on Futurism in Florence will thus be laid and the public provided for the first time with free online access to research materials hitherto difficult to access.
The core of the database will consist of a digitalized text of the complete run of the Florentine journal L’Italia Futurista, which was published in 51 issues between 1916 and 1918 as organ of the so-called ‘Second Florentine Futurism’. This will be supplemented with further documents, such as letters, books, photographs, films and audio-visual materials on individual artists, poets and intellectuals who contributed to the journal and helped to generate the avant-garde development in Florence.
In addition, the website will offer thematic portals in which documents on selected themes will be ready-assembled and made available in bundled form, as for instance on the English poet and artist Mina Loy, who frequented the group of young Florentine Futurists round the journal Lacerba (1913-1915). After her stay in Florence she was acclaimed as an ambassadress of Futurism in the USA, but remains largely unknown in Italy.
With its joint project Pro Firenze Futurista, the Library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut is reinforcing cooperation between Florentine research institutions – the Biblioteca Marucelliana, the Fondazione Primo Conti and the Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieussieux are already partners. In addition the Fondazione Longhi and the pianist and composer Daniele Lombardi have promised their support. Further partners, who would like to contribute to the building up of the Digital Archive, are welcome.
Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: That’s No Fun Edition [Remainders]
In today's Remainders: the unfun. Wait! Don't go. The items themselves are fun! They just involve unfun. We have a no fun WiFi school bus; a no fun eBook from the White House, an unspectacular Samsung smartphone reveal, and more.
Boring Bus
I recently took my first trip on a WiFi-enabled airplane. At first I thought, "How cool! I'll never be bored on a flight again!" But I quickly realized that in-flight WiFi, in some perverse way, made me MORE bored. That special in-the-air-with-nothing-to-do time had been invaded by the regular old routine of checking e-mail and reading through my RSS feeds. So it is with a heavy heart that I read this story about a school district in Arizona that plopped a mobile WiFi router on top of a school bus, effectively turning it into a mobile study hall. And the worst part is the kids are just going along with it. Apparently all of the regular back of the bus mischief has subsided and now the kids just sit and do homework. That's no fun! I remember one time when I was on a school bus a weird kid put SIX FRUIT ROLL UPS in his mouth at one time and nearly suffocated himself in the process. If we're entering an age in which WiFi is the replacement for adolescent fruit roll up shenanigans, count me out. [CrunchGear]
Boring eBook
For the first time, this year's Economic Report of the President will be made available as a free eBook. They have versions prepared for Nooks and Kindles and will offer an ePub version for the Sony Reader and other devices that get down with ePub. I applaud the effort, but I imagine that I'd have such a hard time concentrating on this to begin with that it would take approximately one E-Ink page refresh for me to give up completely. [Engadget]
Boring Reveal
Oh Samsung. You tried to keep your new Bada smartphone under wraps until MWC. You were so close. But then you went ahead and put up this gigantic billboard mere days before the event. Sure, the ad doesn't reveal much about the Wave's specs—just that it has a camera and a full touchscreen—but talk about fudging your big unveiling. [Unwired View]
Boring Sergey
TED curator Chris Anderson brought Google's Sergey Brin on stage for an unplanned Q&A about his company's recent cyber-beef with China. Wired made note of Brin's statement that he was remained "optimistic" that Google and China could work something out, and quoted him as saying he thought Google could "really work within the Chinese system." On the whole, it seemed like Sergey might've been backing down from the no-censorship ultimatum his company announced earlier this year. But a quick read through a transcript of the question and answer session reveals that he addressed the ultimatum explicitly—it's still there, just sugarcoated a little bit:
Yes, we've made a statement of intent. That we intend to stop censoring, and you know, if we can do that, within the confines of Chinese policy, we'd love to continue Google.cn and our operations there. And if we cannot, then we'll do as much as we can but we don't want to run a service that's politically censored. I'm not talking about things like porn and gambling and things like that. Political censorship.
So, no, Google's not backing down. Just being diplomatic. [Wired]
Travolta plays Terrorist Fighting Machine in "From Paris With Love"
LR WEEKEND MOVIE REVIEW
From Paris With Love
by Dan Sheill
John Travolta as a brash, foul-mouthed, terrorist-fighting machine equals Eric Dondero’s wet dream. That pretty much sums up From Paris With Love, a fantastic, and fairly original action flick starring John Travolta as the maverick CIA agent Charlie Wax, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers who plays James Reece, a young up and coming assistant at the US Embassy in Paris who gets more than he bargains for in an unexpected promotion from his boss, Ambassador Bennington (played by Richard Durden). On the same night that Reece’s girlfriend proposes to him, Bennington calls up the young officer for a special assignment which involves getting Wax past customs at the airport.
Wax is introduced to the audience as a mile a minute, almost sociopath type personality, determined to get his prized energy drinks past customs by openly insulting the French security there for hating America, and having to have had their asses bailed out of two world wars. Turns out the energy drinks are actually Wax’s favorite guns which propel him into ass kicking action which turns city of Paris upside down. By expropriating a vase full of cocaine from a Chinese restaurant, Wax begins lead Reece on a wild goose chase, which starts as an effort to catch a high profile drug dealer, but ends with the drug revenue leading directly back to Pakistani terror cell.
The movie has several priceless scenes, including one where Reece’s fiance` catches him and Wax together with a prostitute in an elevator. Throughout the movie, Reece cannot fathom that his special lady would ever cross him. But as it turns out, she in fact is working with the Pakistani’s and has manipulated young Reece into a love affair which she uses to gain access to an African Aids Summit where the US Secretary of State was going to visit. The movie comes down to a final scene where the girlfriend reveals herself to be a suicide bomber, and Reece is forced to shoot the woman he loves in the head in order to save the lives of innocent civilians.
I definitely recommend this movie.
Editor's Note - Attorney Dan Sheill is a transplanted Michigander who now lives in Texas. He serves on the Republican Liberty Caucus National Committee, and still runs the Michigan RLC.
LooptWorks Wetsuit Sleeves Make Perfect Gift for Surfing Laptops [Laptops]
It's not hard to find a neoprene laptop sleeve, but few are made from the discarded remnants of an actual wetsuit factory like LooptWorks' cases (starting at $30). Authentic shark bites and pee stains not included. [LooptWorks via Treehugger]
What the Hell Is Going on Here? [Image Cache]
Someone in our virtual bullpen said: "It's a cockpit erection." The truth is harder than that.
The roof of one of the small jets hangars at Dulles International Airport collapsed, pushing the tails of the airplanes down and the cockpits up. Apparently because the structure wasn't able to hold under the massive pressure of the snow accumulated during the storm that took over Washington a few days ago. [Flyer Forums]
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