Objectified trailer

 

 

 

 

Here is the trailer of “OBJECTIFIED”- a documentary film by Gary Hustwit.

The documentary looks amazing, a must watch for industrial designers in particular.

They say “It’s déjà vu all over again! We’re pleased to announce that Objectified will have its World Premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival (the same place Helvetica premiered at two years ago), March 13th to 21st. SxSW has established itself as one the best film festivals going, and we’re proud to be part of it again. Director Gary Hustwit and several of the film’s cast members will be on hand for post-screening Q&As and a special panel discussion at the Interactive Festival the day after the film’s premiere. Stay tuned for more info, and we’ll also be announcing special preview screenings in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and London very soon”

Porn for the blind

I was surfing through some blogs yesterday night when i came across this article. It immediately caught my attention and forced me to think for a while. Thats been said, the blind are deprived of several of life’s pleasures (and horrors too, for that matter) but hey, should they be deprived of porn too, something that we all enjoy, even if we won’t cough up to it. No sir, they shouldn’t be, and that’s why we have plethora of audio erotica available in the market. What about the real porn though – the one’s that are available on websites for all to see (and admire, or criticize)?

 

Porn for the Blind is a non-profit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States which offers sexual stimuli for blind people over the internet. Created in 2005, it has become a fast-growing phenomenon, providing an otherwise unavailable service for millions of people. The service operates through the medium of a website, Pornfortheblind.org, composed of a white background with a list of links to mp3 sound clips of pornographic content contributed by volunteers(and their are quite a lot of them). 

Can it be categorized as a social service? Quite controversial, but i think fair enough.

Passing by..

Bill Gates and the president of General Motors were having lunch. Gates boasted of the innovations his company had made. “If GM had kept up with technology the way Microsoft has, we’d all be driving $25 cars that get 1,000 m.p.g.” 
“I suppose that’s true,” the GM exec agreed. “But would you really want your car to crash twice a day?”