Filled under: Action, Adventure, Directors, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | | Trackback Tags: 1, 9, shane ackers, stitchpunks Focus Features sent me all the images and character descriptions for the movie 9. The characters are called Stitchpunks and here is the first one.Voiced by one of the world’s most respected actors, Christopher Plummer, 1 is the Scientist’s first creation. As the elder, he is the self-declared leader of the group. He is clever and sly, but also domineering, quick-tempered, and t

Mohamed Mustagab. Tales from Dayrut. Translated by Humphrey Davies. Cairo and New York: American University in Cairo Press, 2008. 204 pages.Miral Al-Tahawy. Gazelle Tracks. Translated by Anthony Calderbank. Reading, UK: Garnet Publishing, 2008. 94 pages.I. Cities, villages and deserts form the landscapes of the Egyptian literary imagination. The novel, which emerged in Egypt after the Napoleonic conquest in 1798, best expresses the tension between the traditional and the modern through this anxi

It’s time for the 2nd Miami Changemaker Conference on July 18, 2009. This conference is the 2nd in a 3-year series - each one with its own focus. In July, participants and speakers will focus on “Placemaking”: How Local Residents Can Create Better Parks, Beaches, Blocks, and other Public Spaces. Advance registration is $25, with a special $5 registration for parents/caretakers of children 17 and under (requires filling out an application before July 8, space is limited). I moderated a panel

ONE MEANS by which the opposition Democratic Party of Japan promises to finance some of the extravagant spending promises in its platform is to eliminate government waste, fraud, and abuse. That’s plausible on the surface, because waste, fraud, and abuse is the hallmark of governments (and large organizations) everywhere. Even the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has a project team formed to ferret out and eliminate waste in government. A Satonaka work of media art Earlier this month, the

What happens when the quest for eternal life goes horribly wrong? Captain America artist Mitch Breitweiser and new comics writer Patrick Stiles are finding the answer, in their new webcomic The Futurists, which has just opened on their web site, WhoAreTheFuturists.com . The series will come out about 3-4 times a month, Breitweiser says, according to his commitments at Marvel. Here’s a taste, from the first page (bigger image here ): The logline of the story: ” Set in coloni