“The thesis in hiring me has to be that we can make a stable organization that is just as risky and cutting edge artistically as it’s always been. You don’t need a chaotic organization in order to produce cutting-edge, experimental, daring, dangerous work.”
Tag: 06.08.08
Reinventing The Idea Of Cities
“In both China and the Persian Gulf, cities comparable in size to New York have sprouted up almost overnight. Built at phenomenal speeds, these generic or instant cities, as they have been called, have no recognizable center, no single identity. It is sometimes hard to think of them as cities at all.”
Computer Games You Control With Thoughts
“A new headset system picks up electrical activity from the brain, as well as from facial muscles and other spots, and translates it into on-screen commands. This lets players vanquish villains not with a click, but with a thought.”
MGM – A Studio That Used To Be (And Now?)
“Despite its enduring legacy as one of Hollywood’s most legendary movie studios — and a seemingly stubborn refusal to disappear — MGM hasn’t fit the profile of a full-fledged production company in years.”
Our Cities The Way We Imagined Them In Movies
“For much of the past century, the job of imagining the worst possible outcomes of their good intentions — of assessing the radically dystopian implications of urban progress — has fallen to film directors and production designers. They invent the city of the future not as a model but as a cautionary tale; and their future is the only future we know firsthand.”