Author: imran
Futures Past
An excerpt from Salon’s review of Where’s My Jetpack… Sometimes it feels as if progress itself has actually slowed down, with the 1960s as the climax of a 20th century surge of innovation, and the decades that followed consisting of a weird mix of consolidation, stagnation and rollback. Certainly change in the first half of…
ITP Spring Show 2007
Watch out for the Spring Show of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, beginning tommorow. I asked Raffi if I could come along a few months ago, but unfortunately I couldn’t make it 🙁 However, Mohsin‘s extending his TO+NYC trip by a few days so he can get to the show and also meet Raffi. I’ll have…
Children Of Men
Alfonso Cuarón’s Children Of Men was one of the best films I’ve seen this year…great acting, a poignant and hopeful story, a haunting score and a pair of breathtaking set pieces, shot in a single take. Unlike movies such as Minority Report and Blade Runner, the world inhabited by Cuarón’s characters is realised with much…
The Fragile Army
My favourite loopy band, The Polyphonic Spree, has just put out an 8-minute MP3 mashup of all the tracks from their upcoming album, The Fragile Army…can’t wait until June 10th :d Download it here…
Rob & Ajaz
In the words of my erstwhile CTO from Wanadoo and Orange – ‘Rob. He’s like my Dad!’…indeed, Rob Wilmot & Ajaz Ahmed were my first Freeserve parents…I found this dramatic image of them from a brochure on ‘New Yorkshire‘ 🙂 In recent days, I’ve been reflecting a lot on the various mentors I’ve looked up…
Freeview – An API For Television?
There’s a phrase from Tom Loosemore’s No Program Left Behind at ETech07 that stuck with me… ‘Freeview is a pair of linked APIs he argues, DVB-T broadcast & the metadata (EPG)’. I agree…indeed last October, I started a dialogue with National Grid Wireless and Freeview’s Cary Wakefield and Adrian Mack, with a view to creating…
BA Festival Of Science
I’ve been asked to speak about emerging trends in communication technology at this September’s BA Festival Of Science in York. My segment is one of four ‘debate areas’ along with Nanotech, Assisted Living and Sustainable Building/Production. It’s a ways off, but I think I’ll focus on social media and the intersection of communities, entertainment and…
On the Edge of Blade Runner
Blade Runner is twenty-five years old…Joanna Cassidy’s just finished reshooting a bunch of her scenes…is Ridley Scott planning a new cut of the movie…are we again On the Edge of Blade Runner? Can’t Wait 🙂 UPDATE: I read sometime ago that screenwriter David Peoples, wrote a ‘sidequel’ set in the same world as BladeRunner, starring…
Echoes
Trippy. If I didn’t have to reboot my MacBook from OSX to Windows everytime I wanted to play Binary Zoo’s Echoes, I’d be completely addicted… Echoes is a slick, psychedelic interpretation of Asteroids, with added Binary Zoo powerup craziness. Echoes is to Stardust, what Super Stardust is to Asteroids…though fortunately, it doesn’t make my eyes…
Big Screens
I drive past the Centenary Square Big Screen, in my hometown of Bradford now and again. I’m irritated by the fact that these amazing civic displays are wasted as giant TVs…why not just put a huge remote out for people to fight over! Recently however, the Beeb is welcoming submissions for more interactive pieces…this kinda…