Showing posts with label Language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Language. Show all posts

5.21.2011

"Your World of Text" like Beautiful Internet/Human Trainwreck


In that...

1. It is veritably, absolutely not good for you to watch.
2. You cannot look away.

9.11.2010

La Planète Sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet (1973)

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A movie whose English subtitles are worth hunting down (as opposed to trusting a dub). The animated La Planète Sauvage concerns an intensely psychedelic future world where humans, known as Oms (a pun on hommes, men), are kept as pets or hunted like pests. Their masters, the gigantic Traags (those blue guys), never forget what they learn, live for centuries (one Traag season is 5 years) and have the ability to influence their surroundings through meditation- wickedly trippy meditation.

Like this.
An Om narrator, named Terr, is orphaned as an infant when his mother is killed by Traag youths. Terr grows up alongside his doting Traag owner and eventually learns French from her. Benefitting from the knowledge of his mind-blowingly colorful and melty captors, Terr is able to escape to and ingratiate himself with a society of wild humans. A series of bizzare creatures dreamed up for Terr's journey reinforces the film's feral whimsy.

11.22.2009

Visuwords

I have been looking for something like this for years: a reliable and visually appealing graphical dictionary. I am all about visualizing information and this is a must for like-minded writers, bloggers, teachers, and otherwise uncategorized language enthusiasts. At once a thesaurus and dictionary, Visuwords presents information around a word (synonym, antonym, derivation, related words) in an interface that is both direct and colorful. Like the charts about molecular and subatomic structure in your high school chemistry lab, there is a key provided that explains the relations between nodes. The most brilliant thing about it is that double clicking the nodes expands the cluster further, creating potentially giant semantic webs. Eyes peeled for a 3D version (or other languages!)