30 December, 2005

Dear Wendy and Munich

Dear Wendy
America's love affair with guns is cleverly satirised in this thought-provoking drama, directed by Thomas Vinterberg and written by Lars von Trier, of Dancer In The Dark. And Billy Elliot's Jamie Bell plays a pacifist in a poor American mining town who established a secret gun-worshipping club, the Dandies.

I'm expecting the film would end with a shocking and tragic climax like Lars von Trier did in Dancer In The Dark and Dogville.

» Dear Wendy

Munich
And another movie I'm interested to watch is Munich, a suspense thriller set in the aftermath of the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Its director is Steven Spielberg.

From Apple Trailer:

This dramatic exploration inspired by true events follows a secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and kill the 11 Palestinians suspected to have planned the Munich attack-and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it.

» Munich

22 December, 2005

FICC Renewal

FICC, a web design office I'm working, revealed its new portfolio site yesterday.

The site focuses on not only visual presentation, but also usability and accessibility - RSS feed, direct links to projects and search function.

» FICC

20 December, 2005

auspicious 4 Relaunched

My portfolio site, auspicious, has been finally relaunched. I have been thinking about a new design for the new site and turned down many designs in the last three months. However, it took just only a few days to come up with the design I adopted.

I'm glad to be able to deliver the new site to you before Christmas. I hope you'll like it. And my office FICC's new site is also scheduled to open soon.

19 December, 2005

EMINEM meets WEFAIL

Eminem collaborates with Wefail, webdesign geniuses for the renewal of his website.

The site is so "Wefail" that anyone can recognise who created it. With Wefail taste, the site is successful in giving a strong impression to visitors.

» EMINEM

7 December, 2005

Nick Robinson's New Newslog

» BBC News | Nick Robinson's Newsblog | The beauty of blogging

Nick Robinson, political journalist, has returned to BBC from ITV News at the end of August. And now he starts blogging at the BBC News website. Thanks to an eye-catching announcement at the news front page, I could know and find his brand-new blog. (I've seen him many many times on the telly, but don't know much about his background and himself. All I know is that he's a political editor and always reports by the Thames or near the Big Ben. You, and me also, can learn more about him here!)

In the 5th of December's entry, he write about what a good weblog (newsblog) is ilke. It is very interesting.

Because "newsblog" gives us a chance to share our views, it is a very different type of media. He write; "I may also invite you to listen, watch or read something that's particularly interested me." He describes broadcasting as the media which you speak to a vast number of people, but you hardly have a conversation with them.

Therefore, he believes that "a good weblog can really change the relationship between author and reader." After this, he keeps writing, stretching this idea to the relationshop between politician and voter. Well, that's another story here.

As one of the today's bloggers, even though I'm not a serious "news" blogger. I bear in mind what is talked here, having seen my blog which haven't got many comments but have got many spam comments... I don't want poker advertising or Viagra. Piss off.

And what surprised me was the fact that he first started writing Newslog in December 2001. Blog? 4 years ago? He was keeping a daily live diary of things in and around Westminster.

Published on this website, it was a continuation of a column we had started during that year's General Election campaign, in a daily article called The Campaign Today.

I naturally stopped doing Newslog when I went to ITV News to be political editor - it was only polite, really - but ever since I returned to the BBC in September, I've been anxious to start blogging again.

This blog is going to be an entertaining and politically-educational blog. He also hopes that, having seen recent British political movements. Well, the next is about the new leader of the Conservative party?