Popcorn, Chewing gum, peanuts & bubblegum – but this ain’t no drive-in
A dark August evening in Cape Town; the city is wet and everyone is scrambling to get to their Happy Hour. The date is Tuesday the 21st; it’s the fourth instalment of Short & Sweet. Aside from the unforgiving weather outside, it had been a tough week for film; Tony Scott had just tragically passed...
JOSEPH KONY: WORLD’S WORST WAR CRIMINAL OR MEDIA SENSATION?
Kony 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.’ This is the description under the Kony 2012 YouTube video, which has received more than 75 000 000 views in...
Wikipedia: down for the count
The 18th of January 2012: Wikipedia is down for 24hrs. The site’s servers have not crashed, there are no technical problems. Instead, Wikipedia has shut down in order to protest the United States government, more specifically the ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’that lies before the United States Congress, waiting to be passed. ...
FACEBOOK TO TEAM UP WITH SPOTIFY
No more constant flipping between iTunes and Facebook! There’s been a lot of talk on the web lately about Facebook teaming up with Swedish DRM-based music streaming service Spotify. Facebook will be a hub for sharing and listening to music in the same way that photos and videos are shared on the social network. ...
