http://www.paulmiller.org Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:03:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Long Now Foundation fans might be interested to know that co-founder Stewart Brand is doing a talk at the ICA about his new book - Whole Earth Discipline on the 30th January. Do come along. The meetup group will also be hanging out in the cafe for a couple of ... http://www.paulmiller.org/stewart-brand-at-the-ica/ Just amazing. I've always been a sucker for 'animations' but this makes you realise quite how powerful computer generated techniques have become. There is apparently no 'real' footage in this film. The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. (via Alfie) http://www.paulmiller.org/the-third-the-seventh/ Films Moon - Duncan Jones's debut is just stunning. I've watched it again on DVD now and there are so many clever bits you don't notice first time around. Also best original soundtrack for quite some time by Stourbridge's finest Clint Mansell. It's been adopted as favourite coding music at Everything ... http://www.paulmiller.org/my-favourite-things-from-2009/ About this time last year I went on a little day-trip to Birmingham with my friend Steven Johnson. It was grey and miserable and we had to go and buy umbrellas from Boots to keep dry. It was a fantastic day though. We were on the trail of Joseph Priestly ... http://www.paulmiller.org/the-invention-of-air-rainy-days-and-optimism/ It's been a while since I blogged about what we're up to at School of Everything. I'll try to do it a bit more often over the next few months because there's lots going on. The very cool thing that we've just launched is School of Everything Gifts so instead ... http://www.paulmiller.org/better-than-socks-school-of-everything-gifts/ I put this idea into the 4iP call for ideas but they turned it down (maybe because I'm supposed to be running one of their portfolio investments ;-) ) so I thought I'd just put it out there to see if anybody was interested in taking it on or helping ... http://www.paulmiller.org/opening-up-an-idea-partystarterorg/ Bathtub V from Keith Loutit on Vimeo. Hat tip to Ben Hammersley. http://www.paulmiller.org/small-is-beautiful-2/ Except Interesting. Roo Reynolds has done a nice little write-up. http://www.paulmiller.org/all-conferences-are-basically-rubbish/ http://www.paulmiller.org/youve-gotta-love-lego-geeks/ Great little film (which took a lot of work I imagine) by Chris Searson. Rush Hour London from Chris Searson on Vimeo. http://www.paulmiller.org/london-fast-and-slow/