I am a TED Head. I love the lectures at the TED Conference. What began as a small conference in California has grown to a global community, many million strong, focused on exchanging and spreading ideas. If you have seen some of their lectures, please do so, it’s an eye opening experience. Anyone who is […]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
18 Great Film Studio Logo Openings
Great film logo openings
More Faux-Nostalgia
It is very fitting that I saw an article on Boing Boing about a new issue of Steampunk Magazine being released after my last post on the work of Bruce McCall. Nothing says Faux-Nostalgia like Steam Punk; that is the achingly sentimental yearning for a future that never happened. In case you don’t know Steampunk […]
Nostalgia for a Future that Never Happened: The Work of Bruce McCall
Bruce McCall says in this hilarious and very interesting TED presentation that Nostalgia is the most utterly useless human emotion. I don’t totally agree but I see the point. Nostalgia if taken to extreme becomes a mild case of depression and self-deception. The past is never as great or as bad as it seems and […]



