Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived. Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla.
Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome. There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. The "Chinese Clock" and Selected Five-Element Correspondences. The Daily Pic. Last weekend, I spent seven-plus hours watching all of Warhol’s great “Empire”, which consists of unedited footage of the Empire State Building that he shot in 1964.
My account of the screening appeared in print in today’s New York Times, while all 5,500 words of the minute-by-minute notes that I took at the screening are up at my new Warholiana.com Web site. But for all that looking and thinking and writing, I missed something obvious, pointed out to me over drinks last night by Tom DeKay, former art editor at the Times and now editor-in-chief of ArtInfo.com: The obvious counterpoint to Warhol’s meditation on passing time is Christian Marclay’s superb “Clock”, from 2010, which cuts together 24 hours’ worth of Hollywood images of clocks and watches and all things temporal, so that the collage of times seen on-screen match the real times on a viewer’s watch.
For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit BlakeGopnik.com/archive. Popplet. Japan’s best-selling home appliance brands of 2011. I recently got this interesting set of statistics on home appliance market share, from a survey conducted by GfK Marketing Service Japan.
The data was collected from a database called ACSISS-E that is updated daily based on sales in a representative sample of Japanese electrical superstores. The report named the top three brands in each of 22 categories of home appliance. I will try to find their data on audio-visual equipment, mobile phones, etc to report on later in the week. Note that according to a survey last month, electrical superstores are probably the most popular place to shop for electrical items, not the internet as one might think. Also note that most of the brands below are premium ones; Zojirushi are about middle of the road, and Tiger are cheap. Alexa the Web Information Company. Trendwatching.com: Consumer trends and insights from around the world. Poppletrocks!