South Africa’s First On-line Book

Andy Hadfield at Techleader at posted about an on-line collaboration between some of South Africa’s best bloggers in order to create a book which glorifies this great country we live in, A Piece of Significance.The content of the book is a positive viewpoint on South Africa, amidst the many sad tales and general negativity about the country.

See Darren’s (the one who started the initiative) Post which covers all the Chapters.

Contents

Introduction
1. The new South Africa – is it real?
2. Is SA rich or poor?
3. What the world thinks of South Africa and what our global opportunities are
4. The importance of each individual’s contribution collectively
5. SA Inc and the business of doing business in SA
6. The beauty and grandeur that surrounds us
7. The importance of technology in SA’s global emergence
8. Building brand South Africa
9. Making the most of SA’s creative talents and abilities
10. Innovate for a better South Africa
11. The role of the younger generation in SA, and what we need to do to support them
12. Connecting South Africa – Communities that transcend technology
13. We are African – the role of collaboration in South Africa’s growth

Image above copyright Darren Gorton 2008. Content copyright of the respective authors and indicated on the relevant posts.
: South African, Blogging, Books, On-line book

Creative Design: Read at Work

A very creative campaign from Clemenso BBDO, an Auckland based Advertising agency, for the New Zealand Book Council is the launch of the site Read at Work. What this flash site does is mask your entire screen as a Windows Desktop and fill it with folders of faux Powerpoint presentations (which actually look like real work documents! but are works of literature by some of literatures greats such as Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Wilde and Emily Dickinson.

So for those who would like to do a little reading at work but don’t feel comfortable kicking back with a paperback, here’s the site for you to do just that… Read at Work.

P.S. The Windows desktop might arouse more suspicion if you work on a Mac :P

: Read at Work, Creative, New Zealand, Clemenso, BBDO, Books

Chuck Palahniuk’s “Choke” and “Lullaby” to hit Cinema!

Chuck’s fiction is one of my favourites, he has this twisted look at the world based on some of the worst things human beings get up to and forces you to re-evaluate your take on humanity and also take a long hard look at yourself. I can’t wait to see these when they come out. I loved David Fincher’s direction of Chuck’s first novel “Fight Club” (It’s on my best-movies-of-all-time list). I love the visuals on the poster for “Choke” too. Classic.

Here’s the trailer…

Also… Lullaby

and the spectacularly eerie trailer for it…

I just love this Dark, Eerie stuff :)

Link: Screenhead

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Mr. Potatohead does Clockwork Orange

Alex : There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.

I wonder if this little toy will give kids nightmares? Awesome movie, Awesome story, Classic Book, Really Weird Looking Potato.

link

Sometimes I wake up screaming, too.

This is from Tom Horacek’s new book “All We Ever Do Is Talk About Wood.”

The Vancouver artist’s first book, it’s a collection of single panel gags that seem to act as a celebration of pain, suffering, and life’s slow march to the grave. But the bitterness is sweetened by Horacek’s too-cute renderings. His round-headed characters not only evoke images of Charles Schulz’s Charlie Brown, but also the Peanuts-creator’s philosophy that “happiness isn’t funny.”

An eclectic concoction, making the serious seem comical and vice-versa. Poking holes in our comfort zones so we re-assess reality. This is the type of humour I like, Dark and Deep. Interesting.

Technorati Tags: Tom Horacek, Vacnouver, Book, Dark, Deep

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