A must see...

While lounging around feeling sorry for myself with a cold on Thursday, I remembered a film that I saw last year, which I will have to put as one of my top films of 2008, despite the fact it was released in 2006. 

The film was 'Kenny' and going by the film poster, or DVD cover, you would normally avoid it like the plague. However, a friend of mine, Kelvin (perhaps the best graphic designer I have ever met?), give it to my housemate, Mark, for his Birthday.  So this was enough of a recommendation to give up an evening... 

It is Brilliant... it is a REAL gem of a film. It has more to say about inclusion/exclusion, clean/dirty, hope/hopelessness and lost/saved, than ten thousand films which claim the same pretension. 

As you can tell, I am really quite a fan!

Best collection of the 44th...

Like most people, I suspect, I've been looking at a LOT of photo's from the Presidential Inauguration... But for just one last look... this is the best collection from the Boston Globe.

What makes it especially good is the international perspective.

beauty and practicality... in a mug

I found this post through Len Sweet's twittering. I really, really like nice design pieces which also deliver really sound functionality. The three I liked most were...

The one below is a good example of functionality without form... I like the idea (really helpful for those who belong to the persecuted minority of sugar takers), but the form is not good enough. 

Form and function

At home in bed with a bad cold, and in one of those places where I don't know what to do with myself!!  Perfect condition to explore the world of twitter and figure out it's usefulness or otherwise. 

Rather than try to make an argument for it myself, go to this link to The New York Times, which nicely covers the pro's and con's, along with a few surprising anecdotes. 

Illness brings out the worst in me, so it's best I'm left alone in my own squalor until it passes - unless you're happy to bug me on twitter.