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You’ve got to have a look at these posters created for the Canadian Filmmaker’s Festival. The ones for 2007 and 2006 take well known, canonical movie culture images and adapt them to inject a Canadian culture vibe. Some of them are rather subtle and the whole series is impressively well done right down to the typography along the bottom of the layouts. The Toronto International Film Festival should...
Last night was X08 in Toronto. Held at CiRCA, the event showcased software by Microsoft Game Studios as well as fourteen third party developers.These included Ubisoft, EA, Disney Interactive Studios, and a whole bunch of others.
There were some great titles on display including all the anticipated blockbusters looming over this holiday season. Call of Duty 5: World at war was looking really stunning, The latest...
Pecay over at BibliOdessy has collected a few examples of satirical maps from the first World War. They function as political cartoons diagramming both geographic conditions and sentiment regarding various regions. You don’t see many such maps produced anymore but their charm is undeniable as they anthropomorphise various countries giving them personality and character, illustrating how they all...
This just in: Microsoft Photosynth is finally out of beta and has gone public. It’s something which has loads of potential and is pretty exciting. It’s also something which words can’t do justice for. Just try it out for yourself if you have a lot of images to organize or navigate...
If you go to Beijing for the Olympics you can see some really expensive architecture. You can also find some cheap knockoffs – something China is infamous for.
As with retail, the architectural knockoffs can be just as amusing. Perhaps they don’t recreate the original faithfully but they give you something for the effort, even if a kind of commentary on the value of the original.
Of course these...
Posted by Raj Patel on Aug 24th, 2008 | 0 comments
Poser Posters
Posted by Raj Patel on Aug 22nd, 2008 | 6 comments
X08 Toronto
Posted by Raj Patel on Aug 22nd, 2008 | 0 comments
Maptoons
Posted by Raj Patel on Aug 21st, 2008 | 2 comments
Photosynth rising
Posted by Raj Patel on Aug 20th, 2008 | 0 comments
Good enough for retail
Hi, I'm Raj Patel. Nice to meet you. I'm a writer, photographer, film producer, avid reader, gamer, architect, programmer, artist, community manager, and general nerd.
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