Over lunch I started to mull over movie depictions of the intranet. I like the idea of film as a sort collective unconsciousness.  There’s quite a few films where some sort of computer network and database is central to the narrative, but I can only think of one where an intranet is central to the...

Thanks to Dazed Magazine for pointing out this most enjoyable Alice mashup by Fagottron. The music video for my song ‘Alice’, an electronic piece of which 90% is composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film ‘Alice In Wonderland’. Enjoy: Technorati Tags: Alice,...

It’s a little known fact that I used buy comics from the same market stall in Northampton’s Market Square, that Alan Moore bought his. Of more note, it’s going to be a little more interesting to see how social media gets used here following on from the example set by X-Men Technorati...

Over at Degenerasian, blogger Tracy sardonically remarks that she might get an A+ in porn studies. Background to this is Annanova reporting that the Mass Communications Department at Providence University in Taiwan is running a course in studying porn movies. I note this as I used to lecture on film and...

Almost beyond belief that daydreaming should be pathologised, yet Boing Boing picks up a thread from Consciousness and Cognition of a report about a woman who cannot stop daydreaming. Her doctors can find nothing wrong with her, yet prescribe her 50 mg/day of fluvoxamine but are unable to dream up, define...

Back when I lectured on film, I always wanted to run a course on Animation and Postgate would have been top of my list of the best. Rest in peace, fond memories…If you’re American this is what he’s all about, one of the British masters of animation and...

A recent report from Forrester on Virtual Worlds asks  ”Will Unified Communications Make Virtual Worlds Relevant To Business?” and provides a hedged answer of ‘Yes, But It Won’t Be Overnight‘. The backdrop to the report is a joint venture between IBM and Forterra Systems called...

Two films seen recently have kept me thinking, for more than usual.  The first was Blade Runner (Final Cut) on the giant BFI IMAX screen at the back of Waterloo. This was something of a visual treat, even though the seat was a little bit too much of a crick-in-the-neck type affair. Rough notes, thoughts...