Category Archives: Amusements and Distractions
Amusements and Distractions
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. Did you manage to see the google doodle celebrating Saul Bass this week? It’s so wonderful! When wrong layouts lead to wrong laughs. The Sydney Film Festival released it’s program. So … Read more
Amusements and Distractions
Amusements and Distractions
Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. The Millions take a look at the art of book reviewing and have put together a three-part list of literary and arts Tumblrs to follow or at least spend some time … Read more
Amusements and Distractions
Amusements and Distractions
Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. The Smithsonian take a look at ‘The Revolutionary effect of the Paperback Book’. Young J.D. Salinger’s letters have been discovered. Read about it at The New York Times. ‘Watch Tilda Swinton … Read more
Amusements and Distractions
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire new trailer. It looks soooooo good. Speaking of, Vulture ask which YA series is the next Hunger Games? Kick off a Michael Chabon book club with his 10 favourite books. (Don’t forget KYD Twitter … Read more
Amusements and Distractions
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. Jurassic Heart dating simulator? Yes, please take a look. Feel free to play. How about a little imaginary time travel with these movie posters reimagined from another time and place. This … Read more
Amusements and Distractions
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. Hello! Hope your holidays were a tasty time. Now, back to it: Some Pixar artists run an independent games company and intend to release their first game – Flyhunter – mid-year. … Read more
Amusements and Distractions
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. ‘A Man Named Bart Simpson Appeared Before a Judge Named Mr Burns’ – yes, somewhere in the real world, that happened this week. ‘The New rules of the Hyper-Social, Data-Driven, Actor-Friendly, … Read more
Amusements and Distractions
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. This site was set up in reaction to the stupid surprise news that Google are abolishing Reader. For a more helpful link, here are five alternative options to Reader too. National … Read more
Amusements and Distractions
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. Let’s start with a lovely letter of note: in 1980, a librarian and her students wrote to Francis Ford Coppola imploring him to adapt The Outsiders. The rest is history. ‘Island … Read more
Amusements and Distractions
Amusements and distractions
Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and generally distracted us. Dreams of Space is a darling site about cool vintage space ephemera. This Russian children’s book from 1970, Bear In Space, is a particularly interesting case. Vulture are hosting a Sitcom … Read more
