Thursday, February 10, 2011

Thight Cramps When Driving

Il Re Ratto a Ebook Lab Italia

Apparently my request for accreditation to Ebook Lab Italy is successful: Friday, March 3 and then go to Rimini to attend the second day of meetings dedicated to the magical world of digital books, a world where people launches ducks and balloons and nothing is as it seems .

The program is very rich and varied. The first two meetings of the morning will be devoted to business models for digital newspapers and magazines and for the school: especially noteworthy the second, held by Sanford Forte, Director of Flat World Knowledge , a company that deals with creating an online catalog of textbooks edited by qualified teachers and authoritative, constantly updated and distributed for free online with a Creative Commons license. A very ambitious project.

After the coffee break, here is the highlight of the day: Libroshima: Chronicles of the eBook after , Carraronan conference held by the Duke himself! The question we ask everyone is: wearing his infamous Pickelhaube ? What they say no, but the hope is the last to die. I will update in real time, with lots of images in real time.

In the rest of the morning we go into the "physicality" of the eBook product, with two conferences on the typeface of tradition and the digital revolution and layout and gestalt of the eBook. Understand? Gestalt, not jerking off!

Campari and white wine,
one of my favorite appetizers
at 13.40 will follow with great interest the intervention of Maria Cecilia Averame of Quintadicopertina , fledgling publishing house digital which has already cut its small market share, who will discuss prospects for a just and self-publishers.

follow lectures and workshops on topics varied, from new opportunities offered by the standard 3 to ePub device coming next, highly anticipated and essential to drink at the end of the day.

In short, the ideas were not lacking: The opportunities dall'ebook intrigue and fascinate me, I hope the conference proves to be an opportunity for real and constructive analysis. The premises and promises are good, we'll see if they are maintained: to hear from these pages for a detailed guide of the day.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Self Clean Oven Lots Of Smoke

Il ratto si è rattizzato

Let the rats come to me!
Yes, you know how it goes, I periodically Corinth and in these parts does not happen much.
not that has not eaten anything eh, indeed.
I shot three nominees: with Toy Story 3 and Inception , having long ago, we boh up to five or eight? Here, I know what I miss the Coen. And Black Swan and, I believe, The Social Network .
sure I'll see True Grit, even if it's a remake, and you know how I feel about it. But what the heck, the Coens are the Coens always.
But back to three.

127 Hours has a fundamental problem: and Boyle from first to last shot, too patinato e sopra le righe per lasciare qualcosa allo spettatore. Beninteso, buon film eh, avercene così: ma insomma, oltre a ciò che si vede c'è poco. E poi c'è una scena che mi ha dato il voltastomaco: considerati gli ettolitri di sangue e le tonnellate di budella che mi sono sorbito in questi anni, beh, chi l'avrebbe detto? Comunque guardatelo eh, quantomeno per vedere come un regista capace riesca ad avvincere lo spettatore ambientando un'ora e mezza di film in una sola, microscopica location. Vero senor Cortés?
Winter's Bone è meraviglioso. Davvero, non c'è una cosa, una sola, che non funzioni. Siamo agli antipodi rispetto al film di Boyle: qui tutto è sussurrato, profondo, viscerale. Come direbbe il buon Elvezio ( qui la sua recensione, abbondante ed esaustiva come sempre): perturbante. Non credo avrà grande fortuna al botteghino, a meno che non vinca la statuetta. Shame on you se vi lascerete sfuggire uno dei migliori film degli ultimi anni.
The King's Speech sta nel mezzo. Un mezzo very english . Misurato ed elegante, ma non per questo superficiale e scontato, il film di Tom Hooper (al suo secondo lungometraggio dopo l'ottimo The Damned United ) si gioca tutto sull'interpretazione di un Colin Firth in stato di grazia. E' il classico film da Oscar, nell'accezione più positiva del termine.

Nelle ultime due settimane ho letto poco e male.
Ho attaccato e mollato subito 1977 di Peace: semplicemente, non era il suo momento. E' lì che aspetta.
Ho finalmente affrontato Leiber con Nostra signora delle tenebre . Sì, mi è piaciuto. Lo ammetto, mi ha un po' deluso: visto il consenso unanime (anzi, l'entusiastica riverenza) che riscuote tra gli aficionados, beh, mi sarei aspettato qualcosina di più. Forse è troppo raffinato e intellettuale per i miei rozzi gusti da ratto.
Sto leggendo Mentre morivo , ma lo sto facendo nel modo, anzi, nei tempi sbagliati: la sera a letto. E io la sera a letto sono capace di abbioccarmi in 5 minuti netti. Pessima scelta davvero: il romanzo di Faulkner other well deserves attention. So yes, on weekends I sit back and start over.

I am planning an upgrade of the old post Ok, the price is right? , to take stock of the (depressing) the market situation of the eBook in Italy. As you'll notice, the supply begins to be acceptable in terms of numbers, but the average price of the eBook is obscenely high and the competition between the stores at the moment is pure utopia.
In short, there is little to be happy, even though we are just beginning and the situation will improve. There is already a little bit interesting.
I hope to go to Rimini for Ebook Lab Italy, at least for a Day: Friday, 4 will also take the Duke!

you'll notice that the Tana changed its face. I do not know if I like or if they remain so long. What do you think?

Oh, I almost forgot: it seems that it will rain Sunday. It will not stop more: they are coming ...