Posts Tagged books
Movie Trailer: The Road
Based on Cormac McCarthy‘s post-apocalyptic book of the same name, The Road follows Viggo Mortensen as he traverses a ruined earth with his son, struggling to preserve the goodness in the boy as he keeps him alive in an almost-dead world gone mad.
The Road is out later this month, and also stars Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall. I’ve not read the book, but based on the strength of the trailer and on McCarthy’s previous No Country For Old Men, I’ll definitely aim to catch this during its cinematic run.
Source: Spill.com.
Find your new favourite band with Music-Map
More often than not, the success of a website will hinge on its apparent simplicity, no matter how complex the engine that drives it.
Case in point, the frankly incredible Music-Map, a website which will take a band or musical artist and return a cloud of associated and similar acts. From there, you can either start over with a new band, or click on one of the orbiting options in order to follow the links between, say, Bob Marley and Mindless Self Indulgence.
Created as part of the Gnod artificial intelligence project by Marek Gibney, the system has already been adapted to map films, books and even people.