Archive for November, 2008

Daytum

Posted on: November 13th, 2008 by Dante No Comments

daytum

I happened to stumble upon an amazing site that is currently in development called daytum.com. It was created by information designer Nicholas Felton and interactive designer Ryan Case to be used as a social dashboard, but it is actually more of a personal tool that can be shared, or accessed from anywhere. The main function of the site is counting. It can help keep track of anything you can think of and highly customizable in that respect, but the beauty is in it’s simple display of the information. I can already feel myself becoming addicted to my own data (just imagine what a years worth of data can look like). I can imagine it will take extreme discipline to keep it up. Check out my Daytum!

Let The Right One In

Posted on: November 7th, 2008 by Dante No Comments

Over Halloween weekend I happen to see the Swedish movie “Let The Right One In” directed by Tomas Alfredson. It is probably one of my favorite movies of 2008 because it is so haunting yet realistic for a vampire movie. The story is centered around the relationship of a 12 year old boy, Oskar, and seemingly 12 year old girl, Eli, who moves in next door with her father. The feel of the movie and relationships of the characters leaves you thinking about the film long after you have left the theater. This quality is what makes movies so amazing, and one that can leave such a lasting impression is very well done. I don’t want to spoil it by giving a synopsis of the plot, but I definitely recommend seeing it.