Ricardo Pinto's Blog, page 9
September 1, 2011
learning Persian…
learning Farsi (Persian) while I wait for a visa to Iran...
August 6, 2011
the empty buddhas…
I suggest that the empty niches in Bamiyan hold far more potent representations of the Buddha than the dynamited buddhas ever were...
July 30, 2011
naked books…
my conviction that ebooks provide a more honest and direct connection between an author and his reader...
June 30, 2011
ebooks – a superior aesthetic?
my contention that ebooks may be superior aesthetically to paper books...
June 28, 2011
life and art in one gear…
the relationship between pace and depth...
June 24, 2011
the retreat from reality…
how our technologies of representation may dethrone reality...
June 9, 2011
tablets and the cloud…
a review of the new iPad that opens into a general riff on the coming invisibility of computing and the turning of our data into a ghostly extension of ourselves...
May 31, 2011
buying it…
why I believe that in using "do you buy it" we are betraying ourselves...
May 20, 2011
Neil Gaiman's Dr Who…
why I admired Neil Gaiman's Dr Who episode...
May 17, 2011
on a broad front…
a much belated progress report...
