Godzilla plays Tetris: Self Contained by Michael Johansson. (via Drive-by Blogging)

Mad Men set photos. Someone really ought to do a gallery of ‘laptops from the future’ in stages and film sets. Previously. (via Boing Boing)

I can’t explain why I like this. Suddently I hope someone would actually write a Tumblr client for the Atari 2600 as they did a Twitter client for the ZX Spectrum. I actually had a 2600 when I was a kid, a few year after I had my Spectrum. It rocked my world despite the much poorer graphics and sound (if such a thing is possible), because the games loaded instantly.

My fastest machine ever. (via Topherchris)

Pictures for Sad Children’s art show. (via Inky)

Up to a point, John. These things matter as long as you don’t pretend your tastes are achievements. Any idiot with a bank account can buy Criterion Collection DVDs at the local Fnac or, even better, a book containing select quotes from the French New Wave… (via Filmquotes)

Robert Overweg’s The End of the Virtual World is a collection of virtual worlds’ ends (Half Life 2’s, in this image). It’s funny to think that once upon a time people believed Earth had boundaries like this - which it doesn’t, right?

Right?! (via Daily Meh)

Sets of Mexican soap operas. I admire the ingenuity that goes into designing a set that must last the shooting of 10.000 episodes while being flexibile enough to allow for multiple light and blocking situations. On the other hand, look at that colonnade. Just look at it. It’s the wrongest thing I’ve seen all day. (via Dailymeh)

I usually don’t like it when people ask me questions such as “Who’s your favourite film director?”, or “Who’s your favourite writer?”, or “What’s your favourite band?”. I usually respond by barking some kind of “Meh.” meaning “I am an adult person capable of liking multiple authors and artists at the same time - and being a person, not a robot, means my love and respect are not quantifiable”.

However, if you ask me who’s my favourite movie star, my answer is robot-like prompt:
Cate Blanchett.

So allow me to indulge myself and put up this picture. No further comments. (via Pedro Quintas)

In the last few months I’ve been spending my evenings co-directing the local theatre group Sem Palco (i.e., ‘stageless’) along with my friend Sérgio from way back in film school.

We started without a stageplay or a fixed goal in mind, our objective was to perform research on the theme of current technologies’ impact on human behaviour, devising a performance as we went along (think of ‘open source stagecraft’ and you get the general idea). Anyway, come next Friday we’ll finally present some of our work, in the form of the one-hour performance piece Peer-to-Peer. If you’re from Porto or nearby, pay us a visit!

We have a very limited number of seats so be sure to place your reservation early! The contacts are here.

What different colors mean in different cultures.