Archive : Critic

What do you do when you have a salad server, teak from China, a rock legend’s guitar and a plank of wood from London’s Olympic venue. Well you don’t do much but build a sailing boat! A boat which will soon be a part of the London 2012 cultural Olympiad. It has been built by the people behind ‘The Boat Project’, a project which intends to document [...]

There are several things in this world that just doesn’t make any sense, and science continuously churns out products that only add up to this belief. Take for example the case of Wrist Piano which is being spoken about a lot these days. The weird gadget can be worn around your wrist in order to make music, what else! However, the piano comes [...]

Publishers can now prepare to capitalize fortunes with sales of eBooks with tracks and sound effects. According to English information newspaper The Telegraph, using a technology that can calculate the speed with which the reader reads the text, eBooks will play a soundtrack to that specific section of the narrative and add the corresponding sounds [...]

Sarah Jessica Parker stepped onto the red carpet in Moscow for the premiere of her latest film donned in a flowing red gown and cape combo from Giambattista Valli. Fashion statement, or is she in touch with her surroundings? Both, in fact. Red is synonymous with Russia and this could very well be public relations magic to build public sentiment. The [...]

You can say the geek world is divided into two section-those are Star Wars fan and those who are not. The latter group will probably rebuke this cult following by calling it just a fancy work of fiction but here is something that will, for some time, make them feel otherwise.   Here is a set of books that shows the blueprints used for the creation [...]

Multi-media artist Tim Burton features hundreds of his paintings, sculptures, films, and drawings, and is the subject of exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on May 26. Everyone who is interested in pop culture would want to explore his masterminded creative vision, high degree accomplishment and reputation which cannot be hidden from public [...]

People just don’t fail to NOT surprise me. Every frigging day, we get to see the same sexist or ageist turd being shoved down our throats. Sometimes this does not come from the side of the one who writes, but actually from the ones who comment. In fact, I was surprised to see the number of negative comments posted below an article that featured [...]

Next month will be the most exciting month for movie-buffs, film makers, actors and every one related to the world of cinema. The annual 64th Festival de Cannes’ 2011 will be held from May 11 to 22 and this year some of the most famous movie-makers of the world will be screening their movies. The comprehensive official list of movies to be screened [...]

One of the biggest non-fiction television networks in the world, Discovery Communications, has now announced the introduction of a brand new network called, ‘Velocity’ that will cater exclusively to topics for men. Velocity is scheduled to go on-air in the fourth quarter of the year 2011 and this new HD channel will be launched to phase out the [...]

The music industry was the first to be impacted by the technology that made it possible to download music without buying it. They did not know what hit them but have responded with strategies to avoid the loss of revenue and have been working on developing new streams of revenue. The publishing industry is facing the same threat today. Increasing costs [...]