In 2001, BMW produced a series of five short films for Internet release. They all star English actor Clive Owens (who wasn’t well known in the US back then) and of course, BMW cars.
Back then, you can download high quality, full screen versions. I can only find low res versions now:
Ambush – directed by John Frankenheimer Chosen – directed by Ang Lee (does anyone has this?) The Follow – with Adriana Lima, Mickey Rourke and Forest Whitaker, directed by Wong Kar-wai Star – with Madonna, directed by Guy Ritchie Powder Keg – directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
The success of these films prompted BMW to produce 3 more in 2002:
Hostage – directed by John Woo Ticker – with Don Cheadle, directed by Joe Carnahan Beat The Devil – with James Brown, Gary Oldman and Marilyn Manson, directed by Tony Scott.
If you haven’t seen them, they’re worth the looksee. Thanks to Coolio’s Blog for bringing this blast from the past.
The ancient Banaue rice terraces in the Philippines are being destroyed. By giant worms.
Cut into near-vertical slopes by the Ifugao people of northern Luzon, the water-filled levels curve around the hills’ maze-like contours, their waters reflecting the pale green of freshly-planted rice stalks. But since the arrival of the olang, as the worms are known to the locals, terraces have been collapsing at an ever-increasing rate.
The worms can reach 18 inches in length and half an inch in diameter and are believed to have moved to the terraces as their original forest habitat was destroyed.
Scott Huettel and colleagues at Duke University discovered that people use different areas of their brain when deciding things that are ambiguous and things that are risky.
"We were able to see individual differences in brain activation depending on the person’s preferences or aversions to risk and ambiguity," said Scott Huettel, Ph.D., lead author and a neuroscientist with the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center at Duke University. "People who preferred ambiguity had increased activation in the prefrontal cortex, and people who preferred risk had increased activation in the parietal cortex. This opens up the possibility that there are specific neural mechanisms for different forms of economic decision making, which is a very exciting idea."
Posted by Alex in Fashion on March 5, 2006 at 10:05 am
That’s right – that’s a sweater made from handspun labrador hair, made by Patty Lee.
Chiengora (pronounced she-an-gora) is the name people are using for dog hair. Chien is French for dog and gora is from angora, the fiber the hair most closely resembles. Dog hair is now considered a luxury fiber along with mohair and cashmere (goat hair), and angora (Rabbit hair).
Checkout other clothes Patty made from dog hair: Link (via Look at This)
Snoozed through your regular alarm clock? You This alarm clock pops up four puzzle pieces and won’t turn off until you put it back together. Turns out, even this simple puzzle is enough to wake your brain up.
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