Not so recently time ago, and from times to times, I have noticed there are some people reading and sometimes making this words worth something. I have also noticed I am more keen to burst several posts on this blog , depends mainly on the current mindset.
Control, was some DivX movie I holded on this hard-drive for a long time, never had any urge to check it out. Yesterday, I did.
First thing I thought at Sam Riley first shot was “I have seen this face somewhere”. Sam Riley, portrays the lead vocalist on the infamous Joy Division, since the very early days before joining the band through all the roller-coaster of emotions and final mental drain, eventually leading him to be found hanging at his own kitchen room. Her wife found him dead. He was only 23.
The turning point on the story happens when Ian tries to build some sanity back to his life and does that inspirational look, with a cigarette hanging from his mouth, to his old room, at his parents house. This is when it flashed: I had seen this Sam Riley image somewhere else.
Ian, worst dichotomy is a fucking cross-road of love. On the one-hand his young wife, whispering a life of plenitude and dreadfulness, begging for support and care; on the other, the charm of an independent and open-minded woman, working at the Belgian embassy and spreading optimistic vibes and ferhormones around. Ian played limbo for a while, going from side to side but eventually succumbed to his own polanskian fate.
There are very few things in life I like more to do than movies. More that drugs, beer and even ice-cream. If I recall correctly, for more than one summer at the tender age of 12 to 14, I have spent most of my days devouring movies. I perfectly remember to visit my local video-club and have to visit some other because there was nothing else worth for me rent there. No guys, there was no torrents back then.
So because of this, that and more, I recommend you to buy salty popcorns and delight yourself with this black-and-white photographic masterpiece.
The future of mobile phones, or “smartphones” as they are still distinguished today, will be to connecting you to the world.
The mobile phone brings the three missing contextual parts to the “world wide web”: identity, connections and location.
A mobile phone is the supreme form of identification because, except in rare occasions, it is intrinsic to only one person. It is not easily shared or lent away. Some say, and I agree, the mobile phone will replacing the three basic stuff you always have in your pockets (women do not apply): ID, Money and Keys.
Nokia, for example, starteded to work closely with VISA in order to bring you the possibility to connect your mobile phone with the banking systems. In the other end, if you pay more attention to the available payment methods in your favororite restaurant you might find a RFID Cards reader already available use the most recent RFID Credit Cards. Things are rapidly binding together. As soon as this tecnhology becomes mainstream other types of interaction will pop-up like paying for traveling or forgeting about promotional coupons and other company fidelization offers.
The mobile phone also knows everything about your connections, it owns your most complete and detailed contact list. It also knows who are the people you are more connected to: the people you most often SMS or spend more time calling. It can also knows who is your girlfriend (or girlfriends) and work colleagues, the same way Gmail smartly suggests you to buy flowers on S. Valentines day when you are reading your lover’s email. You will be able to connect and sync information to existing Social Applications as Facebook, LinkedIn.
With geo-location capabilities, the phone will know where you work during the week and your favorite restaurant on Saturday evenings and rainy Sundays. It will help you with your jogging tracks and getting lost in Amadora, Lisbon with Google Maps.
Will rank your Google searches according to your location, as you do not want to know about available bars in Madrid if you are with Minna in Helsinki and guide you home safely avoiding car traffic.
In the end, the ultimate business case, goes like this: Cristina, your boss, sets up a meeting with you at 9.30am and updates your calendar with it. As usual you oversleep, and wake up by your mobile phone event notification, informing you about your upcoming meeting with Cristina. Calculating weather, traffic and available transports you get your itinerary suggested and Cristina gets notified you will arrive later, at 10.00am, so she can plan accordingly. By the end of meeting you check your mobile phone and check your best friend, Luis is only 2 blocks away at your favorite restaurant and you drop to have lunch with him, just to realize he is cheating on you with Minna.
Everybody has a dream… I would would like to write for living. Writing is a powerful medium. It is the best way of narrowing the gap between two people’s brains. The writer can carefully choose its words before deploy them in paper, still allowing the readers imagination to make his words fly around his own imagination. Oral speech is difficult, you’re often misunderstood and your thoughts challenged back and forth by the listener. Writing is deploying deep thoughts in paper.
I also would like to have a Porshe… but that’s not really a achievement.
São já 1500 milhões de euros os fundos do Quadro de Referência Estratégico Nacional (QREN) des-tinados ao Norte que foram des-viados para “projectos totalmente localizados em Lisboa”. A denúncia foi feita, esta sexta-feira, por Rui Rio.
Since one year ago, just before or after arriving UK, I have religiously followed TED talks just before sleeping.
AFAIK, TED is the major source of quality content I have seen on the internet… I am glad that TED decided to unleashed all this precious knowledge they have built along the year in their conferences.
It reaches the unbelieving on those “ancient” videos, from 2006 and before, still remain very, very actual.
Even the techies… and I can mention the MS touch table* its Photosynth** concept.
Well, off I go, without forgetting to mention the obvious…I have brought all my blog stuff under this new roof that I hope you enjoy and send some feedback.
* I had the pleasure of playing around with one of this tables in a PHP conference in London, where a bunch of companies where exhibiting.
** I also had the pleasure of playing around with it and it is a great concept but still lacks some matureness and fastness…
Some say, and I agree, the mobile phone will replacing the three basic stuff you always have in your pockets (women do not apply): ID, Money and Keys.