Mag+ live with Popular Science+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.

Mag+ prototype has teamed up with Popular Science magazine to create a digital magazine app for the iPad. The video above demonstrates how the app works and talks through the thinking behind it. Shame about the lack of search function… that would be most useful.

The video below has a review and demonstration of some other magazine apps (including Popular Science).

(via Magculture) [Popular Science + in iTunes Store]

highly recommended. go get it > ride journal

The Golden Age of Italian Travel Posters is beautiful. Organised by region, featuring 170 posters from 1920-60, as commissioned by the Italian State Tourism Board and Italian State Railways. Click here to look inside

I reckon Postman’s book would go nicely on your reading list with “Everything Bad Is Good For You” by Steven Johnson.

According to The Guardian, it’s set to open the 53rd London Film Festival in October 2009.

Wierdly (tho perhaps a bit predictably?) all the bad guys are English, whislt the good guys (Fox, Badger etc) are all Americans… and whilst the animation and grpahics are getting some heat, I think the Ocean’s Eleven style heist element will update the film for those unfamiliar with the original. Best critical comment on The Guardian,from Victoriatheoldgoth, actually appeals very much to me: 

“Just looks like the Royal Tenenbaums with more facial hair.”

Like, Where The Wild Things Are and Tron, I think this looks pretty damned fine, and confirms any thoughts you might have had about the need for nostaliga and feelgood factor amongst recession-hit cinema goers - just with these examples it’s slightly more sensitively handled than Transformers et al.

How incredibly awesome are these photographs? Apparently the story is that the photographer, Neil Krug (Ladytron, Boards of Canada, Range Life Records), collaborated with supermodel Joni Harbeck and due to overwhelming demand on Flickr they’ve decided to publish a volume of over 200 images as a book. You can buy them as prints on the site.

Check their commercial for the book, being published in late 2009, below:

Directed by Spike Jonze, starring Forest Whitaker and James Gandolfini, and co-written by Dave Eggers, the release of classic children’s book “Where The Wild Things Are” as a film could be perfectly timed to tap into the feelings of nostalgia, family, belonging and childhood that the recession seems to be demanding. I’m sure we’ll post more about Where The Wild Things Are, but for a taster, here’s the trailer, poster and erm set of skate decks.

Is this the geekiest thing we’ve ever posted? Probably. But at least we didnt make it! Mind you, wish that we had – it’s hilarious, if you’ve got any interest in Aeneas or The Classics. Click to read more.

Bibliodyssey is a great resource for images from rare books. For me though, it functions as a source of inspiration – you never know what’s going to be showcased – skeletons, astronomy, flowers, monsters, maps, architecture… check it out..