"Must Read After My Death"

I just came across this and I cannot wait to see it; this sounds like a truly technologically mediated portrait of every day life...

trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_LQ1xzrsuM&feature=player_embedded

website ttp://www.mustreadaftermydeath.com/MRAMD/home.html

Photographs of Robot in Tokyo by David Guttenfelde

Stunning photographs with a strong sense of uncanny: take a look at the robots in the link below

Robot Invasion Welcomed in Japan By HIROKO TABUCHI http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/robot-invasion-welcomed-in-japan/

image from Metropolis (Fritz Lang)

"Haunted" by Christian Boltanski at Guggenheim

"Haunted" is an exhibition where the artist "employ[s] found photographs to quietly create a mood of loss, commemoration, and ritual." The photographs he uses are taken from a 1931 Viennese Jewish private school. Check the website and the exhibition (if you can)

[image and text from]: http://web.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/exhibition_pages/haunted/#/artist/boltanski

Julian Sheather: Doctors’ religious beliefs and end of life care

Interesting article about religious and ethnic affiliations' influence on end of life care, and also of how media can mis-report informations around this issue.

http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2010/09/03/julian-sheather-doctors-religious-beliefs-and-end-of-life-care/