Renaissance 2.0
Here’s an old drawing I did many moons ago. I called it “Man and Machine”. I think what I was trying to convey is pretty clear. Even as a young man long before this golden age of the Internet and gadget nirvana I wanted to comment on the relationship of Man and technology. I found…
Google Plus continues to grow with over 60 million users after six months and they keep adding new features little by little. One of the most important features that I am hoping to see soon is something called Public Circles. Let me explain why I think this will become important for the future of the…
Here’s an episode of the new version of The Outer Limits which ran again from 1995 to 2002. This one was called “Stream of Consciousness” and aired in 1997. It was truly a prophetic tale as it depicted how dependent the world would be on the Internet which they called The Stream. This was a…
Frank Capra is my favorite movie director of all-time which makes Robert Riskin one of my favorite screenwriters of all-time because he penned most of Capra’s best work for the screen. The best of their films together included: It Happened One Night (1934) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Lost Horizon (1937) You Can’t Take It with You (1938)…
Every once in a while I hear something that grabs my attention no matter what I’m doing. That happened today when I had the TV on in the background on HBO and it played a promo of movies coming up this year and the music just caught my attention. I whipped out my shazam app…
Social networks like Facebook and Google Plus are battling it out right now for supremacy and video chat has become one of the fiercest battlegrounds. Google has taken the lead with its hangout feature which supports up to 10 video participants at the time while Facebook has improved its chat feature by adding video capabilities….
Breaking Glass (1980) is a favorite film starring Hazel O’Connor who wrote and performed all of the original songs. This was like the punk version of Bette Midler’s The Rose which came out around the same time. Both stories were similar in that they followed the rise to fame of a female music artist and…
I’ve always loved Ellen Foley. Most people don’t know the name but once they hear that she sang the female part on Meatloaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” they remember her. Sadly, though, they think she’s the singer that appeared on Meatloaf’s music video for the song but that was Karla Devito who lip synced…
SILENT RUNNING is a wonderful science fiction film that was released 40 years in 1972. It was directed by Douglas Trumbull who was the special visual effects master for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek:The Movie, and other sci-fi classics. This story has Bruce Dern and some others tending…
The future kitchen will have appliances that follow one another like we do on social networks…SmartToasters and Multi-TouchFridges communicate with digital pantries to keep things in stock and even place orders with local grocers. Recipe apps query the DigitalPantry and adjusts the shopping list accordingly. Some of these things are already here but there isn’t…