time books

a couple of time books, well worth a read if not directly about architecture or film:
Time a Users Guide by Stefan Klein, pub penguin is very readable about different kinds of time, personal or objective. has also a good bibliography.
Time by Eva Hoffman, pub Profile Books, is more psychological and has chapters on time and the mind, time and the body etc. I found it fascinating but some of it is hard going - it is best to start with the chapter called time in our time, which is more general.
william

Lovely drawings from Jorin Devoigt

http://jorindevoigt.com/blog/?cat=20

Kit

ROBOTS FOR 2010

CNC Hexapod

http://www.hexapodrobot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=12&start=20

Boston Dynamics Big Dog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQlZtCi7IQ&feature=related

good bookmarks for 2010

http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/

http://www.pixelsumo.com/

http://hlt.media.mit.edu/projects.html

http://www.thishappened.org/

survey

and another excellent joe king
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p00575sw
w

animate projects

and another site for some recent video
http://www.animateprojects.org/home
w

viral

For a variety of online videos including Panic Attack with mix of actual footage and models + the wiping out of chunks of montevideo http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/nov/13/lady-gaga-monster-nokia-grizzly-bear-allison-schulnik
w

BFI indpendents

There is currently an intriguing programme of independent films at the BFI
http://www.bfi.org.uk/bulletins/southbank/20100112afv/20100112afv.html
william

Sea Change

For a short documentary by Rosie Pedlow and Joe King, http://www.jerwoodmovingimage.org/standaloneFinalistsPlayer.asp?id=20&height=480&width=698 no special effects but quietly elegant.
william

Essays on non-fiction film ed Charles Warren pub Wesleyan

This book has a series of interesting essays on a variety of documentary and fiction films and film makers, including Cgris Marker, Tarkovsky, Godard, but also early documentary film makers, US independents etc, Sometimes a bit hit and miss but I found much informative and particularly enjoyed the last essay by Susan Howe.
William