8 months ago
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Would you like a croissant with your expresso Hemmingway?
It sure elicits a WOW. And is surely another feather in Google's innovator cap.
But I asked myself these.
Why would I want to print an e-book?
Wouldn't it go against the whole principle of it?
Yes, yes I do agree, one would want to carry a book along to places far removed from civilisation and broadband. I, for one, love reading on beaches and in trains.
But isn't that why someone spent millions of dollars and hours to invent the e-book reader for?
Yes, yes, yes, I know the feel, the smell and the character of the written word on paper is something else. One can't cozy up in front of a warm fire with a e-book reader.
But what about the paper you save? If everyone goes about printing their e-books to read it, would every story end with the death of a tree? And would something like this Expresso Book Machine mean genocide for trees?
Is buying a book today a blatant display of our disregard for the scantily clad Mother Nature?
When we are consuming so much of our entertainment and information off backlit screens today, do we really need a bookshelf?
Just questions that I asked myself.
Quite like the one about why does one need that warm fire to read the book?
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Beer shots
Shoot your friends dead drunk with the Beer Blaster. And if you're one of those suicidal drunks, just point it to your own mouth and pull the trigger. Available without a cooling period on thinkgeek for just 22.99. Ammunition not included.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Luv Deluxe - Cinnamon Chasers
Cinnamon Chasers - Luv Deluxe (Official Music Video) from Saman Keshavarz on Vimeo.
Just because you change your pov, does the world follow suit?
Album: A Million Miles From Home
Modus Records / Koch Entertainment
Directed by: Saman Keshavarz
Thursday, September 17, 2009
A beautiful shade of green
While being eco-friendly surely contributed to making the planet a prettier place, but for the longest time being environmentally conscious meant being aesthetically unconscious.
The non-vogue jute bags that would only be seen on the vegetable market runways. That too in the hands of your domestic help. The ugly solar panels that seem to fit better into your socially environmental conversations, but never on the roof of your Spanish cottage in the middle of New Friends' Colony (maybe if they were called El Solar Panels). Or electric cars in which you can go about saving the planet at a snail's pace. And look like one too. (actually this one makes sense, since traffic crawls anyways these days).
Not any more. Fortunately.
Designers. Companies. Artists. Are all climbing onto the green bandwagon. Creatively, commercially, at times even conscientiously. But whatever they're in it for doesn't matter, as long as there's something in it for the planet. Do I care if protecting the ice-caps makes someone a millionaire? I would give them my green thumbs up.
Slowly, but steadily, green is becoming the in-colour. In red, blue, pink and whatever-is-the-shade-of-the-season.
A Philadelphia company has developed solar panels shaped like clay roof tiles. Called Solé Power Tiles, (just realised, it sounds Spanish as well) it'll give your green home a quaint touch. Or the jute bag that announced that it's not a plastic bag and went from being an environment statement to a fashion one.
Even electric cars promise to go from 40-140km/hr in the next two years. And look just as fast as well. Courtesy Renault & Audi.
And with designers making it to exhibitions with their environment bit, the future does look quite pretty indeed. For instance this rain barrel by Bas van der Veer that makes it easy for you to harvest rain water. Symbolically, and very aptly called, 'A drop of water'
While the environment has always been a cause. Today it needs to become a trend to find more followers. And efforts like these are small steps towards just that. Which is why we need social influencers to join the designers, companies and artists on that band-wagon. For starters, Hollywood and Bollywood.
With one look from under his cowboy hat, with a cigarette glowing in one corner of his mouth, Client Eastwood single-handedly rode up the share price of Stetsuns by 3 points. And brought down the age of smokers by about 6 years.
Closer home, Shah Rukh Khan wandered through the Italian country-side with a backpack slung over his shoulder in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, and suddenly the youth of Delhi was backpacking their way from Sarojini Nagar to Connaught Place with it.
Why can't the movies set this tribe of apes onto something more environmentally responsible? It could be that jute bag if nothing else.
The non-vogue jute bags that would only be seen on the vegetable market runways. That too in the hands of your domestic help. The ugly solar panels that seem to fit better into your socially environmental conversations, but never on the roof of your Spanish cottage in the middle of New Friends' Colony (maybe if they were called El Solar Panels). Or electric cars in which you can go about saving the planet at a snail's pace. And look like one too. (actually this one makes sense, since traffic crawls anyways these days).
Not any more. Fortunately.
Designers. Companies. Artists. Are all climbing onto the green bandwagon. Creatively, commercially, at times even conscientiously. But whatever they're in it for doesn't matter, as long as there's something in it for the planet. Do I care if protecting the ice-caps makes someone a millionaire? I would give them my green thumbs up.
Slowly, but steadily, green is becoming the in-colour. In red, blue, pink and whatever-is-the-shade-of-the-season.
A Philadelphia company has developed solar panels shaped like clay roof tiles. Called Solé Power Tiles, (just realised, it sounds Spanish as well) it'll give your green home a quaint touch. Or the jute bag that announced that it's not a plastic bag and went from being an environment statement to a fashion one.
Even electric cars promise to go from 40-140km/hr in the next two years. And look just as fast as well. Courtesy Renault & Audi.
And with designers making it to exhibitions with their environment bit, the future does look quite pretty indeed. For instance this rain barrel by Bas van der Veer that makes it easy for you to harvest rain water. Symbolically, and very aptly called, 'A drop of water'
While the environment has always been a cause. Today it needs to become a trend to find more followers. And efforts like these are small steps towards just that. Which is why we need social influencers to join the designers, companies and artists on that band-wagon. For starters, Hollywood and Bollywood.
With one look from under his cowboy hat, with a cigarette glowing in one corner of his mouth, Client Eastwood single-handedly rode up the share price of Stetsuns by 3 points. And brought down the age of smokers by about 6 years.
Closer home, Shah Rukh Khan wandered through the Italian country-side with a backpack slung over his shoulder in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, and suddenly the youth of Delhi was backpacking their way from Sarojini Nagar to Connaught Place with it.
Why can't the movies set this tribe of apes onto something more environmentally responsible? It could be that jute bag if nothing else.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Nearness
It's the same ol' domino effect that we have seen in many youtube videos and created, recreated and further recreated by many ads. Just that in this one there is no touching involved.
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