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Parisian underground cinema. Seriously underground:
Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement. [...]

Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

3-D chocolate printer made of Lego:
We've developed a print head that will print 5mm 'pixels' of the consumable. It basically acts as a pump. Its a medium sized lego gear (driven by a worm gear attached to the motor) with four axels that repeatedly squeaze and release a pipe attached to a funnel that holds the consumables. a half-rotation of this wheel yeilds a blob.

Monkey saves Indian democracy from other monkeys:
Mangal, a langur, has been hired by the Delhi Election Commission to rid its premises near Kashmiri Gate of nearly 60 monkeys which have been creating a nuisance there since the Assembly polls last year.

The monkeys had been terrorising visitors and officers at the commission office for over three months now. Their particular favourite was the Form 6, which is filled when one is applying for a voter’s identity card. The monkeys would snatch the forms from applicants before tearing them. Other files and papers have also been destroyed by the monkeys.

Real-time Worldcon blogging — I wish I’d known about this at the con! Hey, I think I know the back of that head.
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I’m a bit annoyed over this article about Sarnath Banerjee’s Corridor, “India’s first graphic novel”. I suspect they mean “India’s first graphic novel that isn’t about magical heroes or some other lowbrow subject matter”; I have a hard time believing that India has no comics industry.
Banerjee grew up on Bengali literature and thinks of Kolkata as an eccentric city that ignited his comic instincts. “It’s only in Kolkata that you can find a clerk in a government office whose life’s dream is to crack an unsolved math theorem, or become a collector of fountain pens,” he laughs.

Right. It’s not like there might be a famous example from some other country of, say, a patent clerk who solved a difficult scientific problem.
My eyebrows perked a bit when I noticed the Penguin bug on the cover.
When it came to finding a publisher for Corridor, Banerjee realised how a door-to-door salesman feels. “I hunted for almost two years; Penguin was the only one that shared my vision,” remembers Banerjee.

Did he consider asking a comics publisher? On the other hand, maybe Penguin is giving him real money. But I note that he has to come up with a special word for himself to avoid being considered one of those satirizing cartoonists.

Despite all this, I’m also annoyed that I can’t find out if it’s going to be published in the US.
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Really, how many of you could keep yourselves out of a restaurant that had a sign in the window saying “SENSATIONAL FRANKIE!”? I figured maybe they had a Sinatra impersonator. No, a frankie is an Indian foodstuff, a thin potato pancake wrapped around filling. I had a medium-spicy cheese frankie, and it was pretty tasty.

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