Chris Curtis

Dark days.

First Omar. Now Snoop.

It's brutal out there. You're killing me with this season. But it's the best thing on TV period.

If you don't have a clue what all this is about, click here.

'The carnage, the blown-up bodies I saw ... Why? What was this for?'

Articles about Iraq are everywhere these days, and it's generally accepted that things are looking pretty bleak. However this piece in today's Guardian is especially powerful and well worth reading. Not an easy read, but important.

Slate

Like a lot of people I use the BBC website for news but increasingly I enjoying Slate, an online news magazine with a slight hint of humour. The articles are constantly being updated and ask some good questions. I never thought I'd like an online magazine, but this one is worth visiting daily.

100 x 100

Embody notes this photographic project by Michael Wolf looking at 100 rooms each 100 square foot in size in Hong Kong.

David Blaine rip off

I don't tend to spend hours on YouTube, but every now and again something comes along that really makes me laugh. This is one of them:

What??!

Like something that should have been somewhere in 'Lost', this photo caught my eye in today's papers. It's a 9 foot wild pig hunted by an 11 year old boy in Alabama. Just imagine walking in the wooods and meeting this thing on the path?!

Posting

Posting has been a little irregular recently, but the need to write, mingled with guilt for not doing so, has reached critical mass and so I'm back to the keyboard. Hopefully the next few weeks will be a little more condusive to writing and reflecting. Tomorrow I'm off the the LICC schools conference to speak on 'faith outside the classroom' and talk about some of the projects we've developed at LCET. Should be fun.

Cool

A friend sent me these photos of lorries apinted to give a 3D effect. Cool.

Shelter campaign

The year or so on the Tube in London has seen the advert of digital adverts as you go up or down the escalators....essentially a bunch of poster shaped TV's. The new Shelter camaign is the first I've seen to really take advantage of the unique context and opportunities it presents by having children pushing at the screens as though they were windows. The effect as you go past one after another is very powerful...and it's an important campaign in any case. You can get more info about what Shelter are doing here.

iPod killer?