Crossroads

Textual Landscapes: Book-Cut Storytelling Evolved

Mashing-up paper, text, moving images, and the voice of the narrator, a commercial featuring Maurice Gee takes book-cut storytelling to a whole different level.

Orwell, Huxley und Corporate Politics: Stalinismus als strukturelle Metapher

Wie läßt sich eine Rhetorik rechtfertigen, die historischen Massenmord als Metapher einsetzt für politische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklungen?

Pig Stories, Dog Stories, Our Stories

Every relationship is a story that does something in the world, and there is a lot that lives on in these stories, and lives on with these stories in our minds.

Bowen Technique: The Latest in Quack

In order to evaluate the efficacy of Bowenwork, it is recommended not to use magnets for 5–7 days after a session.

Mashup Culture: The Amazing Aliens Rap

Both Robocop and T2:Judgment Day are terrific movies I’ve watched a kazillion times. But Aliens, for me that’s in a whole different ballpark.

Yet Another Reason Why I Love PZ Myers (And Might Have to Marry Him Once Hussein al-Obama Has Instituted Mandatory Cephalopolygamy)

… in the Islamic Republic of America.

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Reality Out There!

Science builds models and tests them against what’s out there. And then we all tell stories about how that worked out.

Inauguration Day. What a Day!

How we got our country back: Meet Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. America is coming to their senses, and I hope Israel will join in too.

Digitale Darmentwicklung

Cute little Japanese ad for a camera from Takara Tomi which, well, can produce its printed photographs itself.

Airstrip One

Could a new, virulent brand of totalitarianism have already emerged in the West? And how will we fare with the 44th President of the United States?

A One-Picture-Story of Anger and Sadness

A photograph taken by David Friedman: “Please Let My Son Marry” in New York after the antigay marriage in Arizona and Florida had passed, and California next.

Heroes@Home

Steve Schofield’s photo series “Land of the Free” about American popular fandom culture in the UK: fanboys and fangirls pictured in their natural environment.