I gave it some thought, about 20 seconds worth of it. A 4th generation of that thing might well be laying on my coffee table, waiting for when I feel like reading some RSS feeds, watching some soup.io TV or checking what’s left in my fridge. That’s when I’m a. rich enough to own a coffee table and not rent it with the flat, b. rich enough to splash on a coffee table dedicated Apple device. And that might never happen.

As I’m now fond of illustrating everything, I looked through some related visuals and decided this one fits impossibly well

I hope the author doesn’t mind me reposting it here (usually apologizing later is easier than asking permission up front in instances like this). You should check out the rest of his tumblr and his portfolio, a very elegant affair, so good it can be forgiven for small fonts.

Who cares any way! The grander scheme of things came knocking on our doors. There’s much sadder news in the pipe. JD Salinger has died and from purely egoistic point of view this means the hope of any new book from him is gone for ever. I’m also pretty uptight about the possibility of Catcher in the Rye film getting to be done soon, as the rights usually go flying once the author is no more holding onto them. At the present time I can’t really conceive of a screenwriter + director combination that could make a good job out of this… (any ideas?)

In other obituaries, MiraMax is no more. Fore those of you who have been hiding in a cinematographic cave, MiraMax was the film studio founded by the Weinstein brothers, which pretty much brought us Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith (more in the wikipedia article). Whatever its drawbacks it has induced a new quality into Hollywood film making and, perhaps even more importantly, made a lot of people feel that you can want to be a film maker and get away with it. It also gave the world Pulp Fiction and everybody knows that is priceless.

Oh, the irony – MiraMax is closed by Disney, who bought it nearly 17 years ago for $70 million. This is not the day indie film died, but an era is definitely over. With the Avatar taking most of the major film awards this year one can’t help but wonder where is this circus going… Let this be a motivation for the up and coming indie film makers – if we don’t get there fast enoug, we might one day wake up with our faces painted blue and an obligatory Celine Dion song stuck in our heads. If that doesn’t scare the shit out of you I don’t know what will.

The Winsteins have apparently said that they will be aiming at reclaiming the name.

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