we’ve been away for quite a while, now we’re tired like hell (but feeling fine), and gotta get back on track.
replies and similar stuff… soon, I hope. please bear w/ me. thank you.
Filed under: task manager, temp
június 24, 2009 • 10:14 pm 0
proba?
you see, the url of this blog is “proba.~”, and “proba” meant and means, in this context, “a test run”, “giving a try to blogging and the wordpress engine”… or something like that. it’s been going on for… like… 2,5 years? quite a long test run, isn’t it. :)
now i’m considering closing up shop here – and starting over somewhere else.
yet, those who know me to a certain degree know that this is _not_ a promise or anything to be taken seriously, not until i’ve actually done the thing and moved away to a new blog, which will either be more thematic / professional (in some fields) or not.
i’m just letting you know that i’m considering things. :)
Filed under: feel, task manager
június 18, 2009 • 4:02 pm 3
Two images without comment
The Italian poster for Tarantino’s upcoming movie:
…and the box art of Unreal Tournament III, from a while ago:
Filed under: graphics
június 11, 2009 • 1:59 pm 0
deTerminator (a quote from an email)
>> (…) and it pinpoints one my biggest problems with the movie, namely “That is, stuff happens because it’s supposed to happen, not because anybody makes any choices.” (…)
strange, but i don’t really have a problem with that – not in this context. whether there’s free will is an ages old debate, and the series could be seen as an illustration of that, humans desperately fighting for the free will idea against a mechanistic (!), deterministic world personalized by skynet. (heh, skynet, the DEterminator…)
in other stories taking away the choices from the characters is a highly risky, boredom and frustration inducing approach, but here it somehow seems to fit. maybe it’s about sarah connor being wrong all the way: there’s fate, and just fate – you’re just a cog in the great machine and nothing you ever do can go against the machine. everything’s happening according to plan, even the mistakes and the apparently random events. you may fool yourself into believing otherwise… but even that’s how it should be.
quite bleak, it is – yet you can view the terminator series from this pov too.
were i the writer / designer of the series i’d play on this in the sequels to come (if there’s gonna be any.) i’d reveal that skynet made its “mistakes” on purpose (not killing john and kyle -> skynet knows that without kyle traveling back in time its own existence would not be possible and so on), that skynet was established by a future human / demihuman / ai / et intelligence or government capable of time travel for its own purposes etc. (it would be quite amazing to see an official terminator – matrix mashup too, where the time-travel thing could be solved blatantly easily.)
okay, i’ll stop rambling, sorry. :)
Filed under: quote, science fiction, video
június 8, 2009 • 2:58 pm 2
Cover design practice / tribute to Gibson
description/credits/larger version? click here. hope you like it. :)
Filed under: book cover design, graphics, link, science fiction, typography
