Links 11/09/10

• Great time capture video of Tokyo by Samuel Cockedey called inter // states with a good tunes by Paul Frankland

inter // states from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo.

• I said I would keep an eye on this whilst out in India, but it seems that India's $35 Android tablet is reportedly on track for a January launch.
• “Although climate change could still have devastating effects for much of the world, some regions stand to benefit immensely. Canada, Scandinavia, and even Greenland could all become economic powerhouses, making "The New North" a very attractive destination.”
• M. Night Shyamalan's career (as a film by M. Night Shyamalan). I quite like some of his concepts, jut don’t think they’re always executed as well as they could be. I review of ‘The Missing,’ said it had Shyamalan undertones - which I take as a compliment.
• Third film this week. “Singer-songwriter Kirby Krackle has just released this wistful little video, illustrated by Damon O'Keefe, about how the zombie apocalypse is kind of a bummer.”

Spanking comments

Well the writer's event with Alan Campbell was cancelled, so if you want to find out more about him you'll have to give his blog a go at http://anurbanfantasy.blogspot.com/index.html.

As the weather was atrocious we headed to the cinema to watch '28 Weeks Later', which was okay but personally not as good as the first movie. I'm sure the director was attempting to emulate the zombie horror movies of the early 60s that made reference to and commented on Vietnam. This film attempted to sum up America's war in Iraq in similar way, but came over as just a little bit hard handed. That said, great scenes of London being fire bombed. Lady H particularly liked seeing City Airport and the Docklands being levelled as she has had to spend so much time there with work.

Also went to see an The Curse of the Cat People from 1944, which was dreamy and strange and had some absolutely hilarious dialogue (that just wouldn't get past the pc brigade now), about a child being given a spanking for the first time.

Not many cats in it though.