Issue 04 - Vol 01 - April 2012

Cerebral Interviews attempts to capture the pop culture zeitgeist throughout the month. Published at the end of every month. 12 newsletters in 2012. No more, no less.

I was hoping to get more done for this edition, however I’m in the process of relocating countries, so this one is a bit of a short one.

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Khaled Abou Alfa
April 2012

App of the Month

Figure by Propellerheads is easily one of the coolest looking apps you’ll find for the iPhone. You now have a drum machine in your pocket.

Art

Fascinating work by Gabriel Moreno - damn you and your talented left hand.

Comics

The 2012 Eisner Awards nominations are out. The clear winners are Daredevil and Tale of Sand (which deserves the amount of attention it’s gotten). Craig Thomson’s Habibi got a couple of nods as well. However for those that didn’t get nominated but should have been, there is this list.

Great sneek peek into the DC Comics offices.

Robot 6 has a comprehensive (and the most exhaustive) preview of the upcoming Watchmen event. I am torn about this. I respect Alan Moore so much, but the talent involved is so great that I can’t help but want to see what’s going on. Part of me wishes that these same creators went and did something else. This wasn’t really necessary.

One of my favourite graphic designers (Rhian Hughes), redesigns on one my favourite comic company logos, Valiant. Such amazing early 90s summer memories from stories by that company. I will say that I love the old logo too much, but if ever there was a clever way to keep the old but update it.

Football

Against all odd, Chelsea made it through past Barcelona into the final of the Champions League.

Funniest Website of the Month

Texts from Dog

Gadgets

This keyboard from Logitech is probably the single greatest accessory for an iPad

One of the slickest and smartest wall clocks, now comes as a wrist watch (or will come soon).

Formula 1

Nico Rosberg wins his first grand prix, after 111 attempts. One of the best drivers to never have won a GP has now removed that monkey of his back.

Movies

Pixar finally creates a new property in Brave. The latest trailer looks fantastic, and recaptures that Pixar magic.

Music

Smashing Pumpkin’s 7th studio album will be released this summer, Oceania.

Technology

Google Multitask video made me laugh (note the date it was posted).

Google Drive is finally a reality. Not that I care too much since I’m completely taken by Dropbox.

Brett has compiled a comprehensive table of all the available iOS text editors. I own most of these.

Google Glass was finally unveiled by Google X (the skunkworks section of Google). It’s an interesting concept, and it’s definitely pushing things in a completely different direction and as others have mentioned it’s fun to see Google throwing interesting stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks.