links for 2007-05-13
- BLDGBLOG: Tokyo Revelation “radioactive and decomposing cityscapes of post-apocalyptic Tokyo” Reminiscent of that old series of images of abandoned nuclear power stations. (tags: photography ruins tokyo futurism)
- De Mol sinks fangs into Dracula | Business | Money | Telegraph “Hammer Horror Group, the cult film production company, has been acquired by a consortium led by John de Mol, the Dutch media billionaire who revolutionised TV worldwide with Big Brother.” (tags: hammer horror)
- IGN: Hammer Horror Returns “Brit horror studio Hammer Film Productions, best known for the Quatermass franchise and a string of ’50s and ’60s flicks that featured the likes of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy, is being brought back from the dead by producer John De Mol.” (tags: hammer horror)
- Boing Boing: Japanese and Americans read faces differently “After seeing the difference between American and Japanese emoticons, it dawned on me that the faces looked exactly like typical American and Japanese smiles,” (tags: smileys visiref socioaesthetics aesthetics sociology)