Square Peg

 

This ad was released in 1998. I was 16. It's aged well.

Rough Loop

This scene terrified me when I was little. The idea that your attempts to kill something are making it stronger is pretty unsettling. It seems to resonate a little with the current war on terror..

Déjà vu?

Have you seen this house before? I'd swear I have.

Maybe because it looks a bit American to me? Some kind of media memory?

Atoms For Peace

There is a very utopian feel to the IAEA logo.

Feels out of place in these uncertain times.

Content and Delivery

Plan B talks sense at TED and the disproportionate funding of the Olympics gets ticked off nicely in his Ill Manors video.

$50

Haggling at the Pawnshop
Trading Places at MOVIECLIPS.com

Up and Down in 400 seconds

Solid Fuel Orchestra.

Modernity

The life of the modern jet pilots tends to be most unexpectedly lonely. . . . foreign countries are places to reach accurately and to leave on time. Distance is a raw material to work with.

Mr John Pearson writing in the Sunday Times, 4 Feb 1962.

Jolly Good

That painter is going to have some funny coloured spittle at the end of his working day.

Classics

Some common aspect ratios

1.333:1 (4:3) Old television & computer monitor standard

1.41:1 Lichtenberg ratio 1:√2 ~1:1.4142, ISO 216paper sizes (A4)

1.5:1 (3:2) Classic 35 mm film

1.6:1 (8:5) (Credit cards are 85.6 × 54 mm which is ~1.59:1)

1.618:1 The golden ratio

1.667:1 (5:3) A common European widescreen standard

1.778:1 (16:9) HD video standard

1.85:1 A common US widescreen cinema standard

2.39:1 A current widescreen cinema standard

Friday Treat

Fighting Crime, Protecting People

They're parked on a double yellow.