The Film Festival is coming to Wellington for the next three weeks, and there are seven films I particularly want to see. Accompanied by snippets from the festival program reviews, and trailers from youtube, they are the following:

Sukiyaki Western Django

“Imagine El Topo remade by Suzuki Seijun, and you might have something like this East-meets-West, pop art-meets-psych, guns-and-swords fusion that Miike makes weirder by having his Japanese cast speak in phonetically delivered English with subtitles! The icing on the cake? A Tarantino cameo”.

Ben X

“A galvanizing portrait of autism and its profound impact on both the autistic person and their families and community, Ben X boldly melds virtual reality with live-action vérité style and docudrama to create what may be a new film grammar”. (more…)

I’ve been reading Carolyn Snyder’s “Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces“. It is a very thorough newcomer’s introduction to this simple yet effective user research technique.

Over the last year or so I’ve become quite interested in prototyping techniques in general - from flash and PowerPoint to even spaces like Second Life as prototyping environments - but I think paper prototyping stands out as something quite special. (more…)