Category: asides

Jake Adelstein, writing for Boing Boing, sits down with three Yakuza to evaluate the Playstation game Yakuza 3. A fascinating read and well laid out page.And, it turns out that the game is fairly accurate in detailing the life of the yakuza. M: I like the fact that you power up by eating real food.…

David Neustein on the role of architecture in Inception. It is no surprise that we react so enthusiastically to Inception ’s frenzied scenes of demolition and detonation. It is also why the film’s protagonists seek to burrow down further and further into the dream realm: each dream-within-a-dream is less tethered to the waking world. In…

Alan Moore on Super Heroes in an interview at The Quietus: I’m interested in the superhero in real life, but not the comic book version. I’ve had some distancing thoughts about them recently. I’ve come to the conclusion that what superheroes might be — in their current incarnation, at least — is a symbol of…

Al Baxter, tight-head prop for the Australian Rugby team and architect has a blog. Al graduated from Sydney University in the year ahead of me and has been playing for the Wallabies for the last seven years. So far there are a number of rugby related posts and one on his twin pursuits of sport…

Sam Jacobs reviews Sex and the City 2 for Icon: Manhattan has been SATC’s leading character, but SATC 2 kills it off halfway through. Like OMA, SATC ups its skirts and leaves Manhattan for the Gulf. Like many an architect, Samantha exclaims: “Two years of bad business and this bullshit economy – I’m done! I…

I will be speaking at Adelaide University on August 4th as part of their 2010 Speaker Series. I hope to see you there!