So the (now former) President Zelaya of Honduras loved being President so much, he wanted to be President for a second term (Chavez can do it, why can't I?!). The Supreme Court said it was illegal, the army refused to help prepare for the referendum on changing the constitution, etc.
I'm sure that AUTO-MAC is just a drive-thru, but both myself and this guy in the picture, really hope it means that the McDonald's is operated entirely by robots.
Click the images to see a BBC slide-show of the Honduran fast-food coup.
The army arrested Zelaya and took him to Costa Rica. I wish an army would come and take me to Costa Rica.
Mousavi vows to continue prote--OMFG that guy with all the plastic surgery that dangled his baby out his hotel window in between child molestation charges died!
Ahmadinejad, shown on June 25th, 2009, seconds before pressing the large red button that would take Michael Jackson's life.
An undated photo, reportedly showing Iran's Michael Jackson device. The words "Michael Jackson" are clearly legible at the bottom edge of the device in Arabic script.
Not to be outdone by Iran, China reminds the world that not only did they invent gun powder, paper and writing before the rest of the world, they also mastered the art of shaky camera coverage of protesters fighting with police.
This was shot in Shisou City in Hubei Province, China. The protest was sparked by alleged foul play and a government cover-up behind the death of a hotel chef. article >> "Residents in central China protest over death"
A stack of incredible photos from the protests in Iran: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/irans_disputed_election.html
Matt and I started shooting Love Song One and Love Song Two last week. That saying about children and animals being the most difficult actors to work with is not true at all. Pistachio (the cat) has eerily good timing and a very natural (she's never had acting lessons) awareness of how any given shot is framed and how best to flaunt her furry ass in that shot.
Ahmadinejad takes 62% of the vote? Really? Really? With the largest voter turnout ever in Iran. Really?
Despite a ban on public protests, with text messaging disabled across the country to prevent protesters from organizing, people hit the streets in Tehran. And the police hit the people.
BBC footage of the protests getting violent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdO9o5xpmog
Not only did Uniqlo make the underwear I have on right now, but they also created this nifty time-lapse calendar that makes Japan look as though it was built with LEGO and a miniature train set. Click on any one of the videos and the frame turns into a mosaic composed of Uniqlo clothes matching the colour of the oversized pixels. >> Uniqlo Calendar
A CNN correspondent tries to report from Tianamen Square while plain-clothes police officers practice their routine for the Beijing stage production of Singing in the Rain.
Click image to watch the video. It's either incredibly sad or absolutely hilarious.
During Digital Week I was lucky enough to grab a spot in the Centre for Digital Media's Digital Kung Fu workshop/bootcamp. One statement from Digital Kung Fu that stuck in my head, and that several panelists throughout the day repeated again and again in the workshops, was to go out there and take whatever idea you may have--game, start-up, movie, website, whatever--and just try it out. It's so cheap to make a movie or a game or a piece of niche-market software, that there really is no excuse to not trying out an idea to see if it has any traction in the market or if people have fun interacting with it.
That seems like a very straightforward point, but to have it illustrated with multiple examples over the course of the day, from the opening session, to the iPhone app workshop, the pitch session and the VC grilling in the afternoon, was incredibly valuable. Boris Mann, from Bootup Labs, had a particular way of phrasing this concept: Get Shit Done (GSD). And that's the best, simplest way to put it.
Above: Young monks learn Apple style kung fu.
Check out all the photos from the Digital Kung Fu Workshop on the CDM's Flickr.
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