Tue 25 Dec 2007
Movie: Angela, directed by Luc Besson
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I’m a big fan of The Big Blue, The Fifth Element and The Professional, so when I spotted this Luc Besson film, Angela, in the video store, I had to borrow it.
This film blends classic black and white cinema with Parisian streets, a six foot blonde, a guy down on his luck, and a loan-shark-wanting-to-collect. To this, add a fantasy element. Very cool and touching on more than one occasion. I had fun watching this, which made it the perfect Boxing Day film. 
Run Time: 90 minutes
Rated: M
Director: Luc Besson
The folks at Digg have created ‘Digg Labs’, a place to explore new tools that allow users to consider the popularity of peer-reviewed content. The tools are all based on visualisation techniques and provide a real-time feed with news stories from third party sites around the world. Just watching the headlines show themselves in visually innovative ways is incredible. In the sea of information that is the web, tools such as these are helping people sort and decide upon the type of stories they wish to read. 
It’s been a long time since I saw something as creative as this that made me laugh out loud. This is a disturbing vision of what might happen in the event a freak of nature or mad-scientist experiment goes wrong and spontaneously generates artificial intelligence.
Wow….this is the coolest website, I just had to share it with you. It’s for an advertising agency, Red Interactive. When you arrive on the site, you’re prompted as to whether you’ve been there before, and a gnarly character in the bottom left of the screen explains that you can choose an avatar to represent you on the site while you’re there. When you pick your character, then connect, you suddenly see all these other people wandering around an idealic scene. Use your cursor to go up and, hey bingo, you can fly through the star studded sky. Just…a…great…site!
This movie is a hoot! Comedy or Tragedy, you never know right until the end. With lots of in jokes for writers and questions too - like, if you’re writing third person omniscient and your main character starts to hear the voice of the narrator, is it still omniscient? - it’s a great watch. Thoroughly recommend it. The Age gives it two stars and to that I say…bah humbug!
This interactive Conflict Map charts significant battles between 1899 to 2000. I’ve used this idea in a new speculative fiction story I’m working on at Clarion South called ‘Home Wars’.