Author Archives: Kai

Weird Book Room – Abebooks

By Kai | Published: November 25, 2010

The purveyors of weird and wonderful books, Abebooks, have put on the Weird Book Room. Well worth a browse, a christmas gift for everyone to be found here, with intriguing titles like these: 101 More Uses for a Dead Cat 50 Ways to Use Feminine Hygiene Products in a Manly Manner Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English [...]

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Testing International Relations Theory

By Kai | Published: July 21, 2010

Following a number of enlightening blog posts on what international relations (IR) theory has to say on the matter of zombies and zombie attacks (e.g. 1, 2, 3) Daniel Drezner (Professor of International Politics, Tufts University) has now got a feature in Foreign Policy titled “Night of the living Wonks” which is worth reading for [...]

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David Kassan – iPad art

By Kai | Published: July 7, 2010

time lapse of new york artist David Kassan painting a portrait with ‘brushes’ on the iPad. check the video – time lapse of just the on-screen action starts at 6’22 min – well worth a look! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video David Kassan website

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Putin on HipHop, Graffiti….

By Kai | Published: November 19, 2009

just made me laugh… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Optical Illusion

By Kai | Published: November 11, 2009

couldn’t resist to post this here… just came across it on the derren brown blog whilst doing research, it’s driving me nuts, the picture as well as the research…

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Berlin Wall – 20 years on

By Kai | Published: November 10, 2009

20 years since the wall came down – nice photoessay from the Boston Globe – their photoblog “The Big Picture” is well worth subscribing to (we mentioned it before, twice)

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Knot ohundred watch

By Kai | Published: November 4, 2009

nice new timepiece from knot – has been circulating the web and made appearances on a number of blogs, but here it is again on scrapbook. no idea how much it is, and equally not sure about knot’s claim that the watch: “harmonizes modern uniqueness with the appeal of vintage military masculinity.” cool looking thing, [...]

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Le Tour – Brent Humphreys photography

By Kai | Published: July 17, 2009

Texan editorial photographer Brent Humphreys’ pictures of the Tour are stunning – hefty use of strobes and vibrant colours give his images of the Tour a plasticity and an odd seventies look – matin parr of cycling reportage… i find it hard to select just a couple of images to represent his project here – [...]

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Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe

By Kai | Published: March 26, 2009

Charlie Brooker’s take on the news. The first episode is well worth a look, much in the style of his previous series ‘screenwipe’ (or at least some of the better episodes of that…) – taking an irreverent look at the daily doomsday peddling machine that is the news… (i hate myself for having written that [...]

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New TED Talks

By Kai | Published: February 9, 2009

Recently the 2009 installation of the TED conferences was held in California.  A bunch of new talks are up on their website  – well worth checking, as well as some of the older ones, like this one by David Carson.

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