20.08.2006
I finally had a chance to see Three Times by director Hou Hsia Hsien. It is an amazingly beautiful movie. It's not exactly an action movie, as a matter of fact not much happens, but because of that small gestures become loaded with meaning. The final shot of the first episode is simply magnificent. Period.
17.08.2006
The Musée du Quai Branly is a typical French grand museum. The Musée du Quai Branly is BIG and like the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay it is probably best to visit it twice rather than trying to see everything on one visit. After Africa and Oceania I was too saturated to take in much of Asia and the Americas.
06.08.2006
If a novel idea or product is successful, others will copy it. This is what happens in business, but also in science and the arts. When a new field of scientific inquiry is opened up, - the science of networks, string theory, social cognitive neuroscience -, scientists and PhD students flock there, because the chances of breakthroughs and getting an article published (profits in science) are still high. Thus there is a drive towards homogeneity and monoculture in capitalism.
The Financial Times Weekend Magazine invited the creators of Logicomix, to do a short tribute to Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Logicomix, a graphic novel about mathematics and logic, is a pure delight.
A Hamlet for the 21st century.
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