Fans of the “Lord of the Rings” films will be pleased to hear that “The Hobbit”, the prequel to LOTR, is in the works, again to be directed by Peter Jackson. Apparently he wants to give it the same feel as the rest of the movies so there will be considerable original cast overlap with the others. Don’t get too excited just yet though, we won’t be seeing any of it for a good few years!
N.B. Having updated the comments in around 8000 lines of php code today I never want to see another /** * */ ever again!
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Found a fascinating link off Slashdot today about the state of the Chernobyl “dead zone” 18 odd years from the disaster - the pictures of the ghost town’s are particularly haunting with all the signs of everyday life cut short still very much in evidence. Its strangely reminds me of the world described in “Day of the Triffids” and seen in “28 Days Later”. Take a look at the site here, and for more info on the disaster see here.
This weekend looks like it’ll be dominated with SEG related stuff for me - I’ll be writing up a fair bit of documentation and working on a big poster to advertise the project for the trade fair in just over a week. Anythings better than AI though!
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Its been pretty busy the last week or so with deadlines a plenty and always something needing to be looked into, primarily being the SEG project which is nearing the end of implementation, and looking pretty good if I do say so myself! I would post a link but until the official deadline its still all shrouded in secrecy. Unfortunately most of the snow from the weekend is now gone leaving behind some very icy pavements 
I saw another great Japanese film a couple of days ago called Kairo (or Pulse to you and me!). Its another psychological thriller with deeply philosophical and profound messages lurking under the surface of its modern approach to the genre.
Kairo is based around two parallel stories: the strange events taking place among the employees of a Tokyo plant sales company, and similar happenings in the life of a young economics student, Kawashima Ryosuke and a computer scientist Karasawa Harue (who makes CS look a lot more fun that it really is!).
From what I gleamed from the fairly heavy plot ghosts/spirits (call them what you like) are somehow crossing over to the ‘real’ work, using electrical equipment as conduits for their transport. They begin feeding off peoples sense of loneliness and isolation and slowly the population mysteriously dwindles until only the principle characters are left. Eventually both parties join up under pretty tragic circumstances and things come to a climax.
Kairo is a pretty amazing piece of work: its cinematography is so dark, surreal and murky it makes your eyes hurt; potent and resonant imagery that weighs heavy on the mind long after seeing it; no shocks, but instead deep, dead chills that make the viewer have to consider the central philosophy of the film and fear for the future. All in all an awesome, totally essential film.
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