Chilligavva

Truly, poverty of the heart is what afflicts most of us.  I have never felt that as strongly, until I saw this video. Watching this video has definitely humbled me, and made me take a good strong look at myself.  For those who truly want to help, they help, inspite of all hardships.  For the rest, its a daily littany of whines, goal statements and spelling out of human greed [not wants].  I definitely fall into the second category of greed, rants, and whines. Im thankful to my friend Shakti Shenoy, for this link!  (I always believed that you meet a person for a definite spiritual reason) The video is a program that identifies a Citizen Hero.  The protagonist is a person called Hajabba from a small village off Mangalore, (my home town), called Nyupadpu. Some would dismiss him as just another illiterate fruit seller, but, 47-year-old Hajabba's life is a lesson in inspiration. Hajabba, who built a school to educate over a 100 children in his village near Mangalore, was honoured by Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur after he saw the fruit seller's story on CNN-IBN. Thakur awarded Hajabba ... Continue Reading

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A song from one of my favourite directors. Lovely film, great music with some excellent cinematography. if you haven’t seen this movie, do see it. Preferably on a 70mm screen.

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Just read that the Hindi movie Sunday starring Ajay Devgun is a hash of my favourite telugu movie called "Anukokunda Oka Roju".  I happened to absolutely love Sashank [what an actor!  He is a natural!] and Jagapati Babu's sauve funny style.  But imagining Arshad in Sashank's role and Ajay in JB's is SCARY!  Especially when most north indian flicks are pathetic in treatment.  Not to mention that the cult angle is being replaced by a serial killer angle.  OUCH!  Bubbly heroine Charmi's role is being executed by Ayesha Takia! Oh Oh yeah!SRC: Screen dump from full hyderabadIn my internet trolling, i noticed that Sashank(above poster clip) does not have any web presence.  Being young and of this generation, he ought to get one! Continue Reading

Looks like this week is all about animals. I have just completed a Jungle theme for Chilligavva, which you now see in action. For the curious, the animal icons are based on the Animal Dingbat series, called "Animalia Scissored" from Dafont.com, a font site. I have just come across the work of Jeremy Pettis, a student at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design via Typographica Here is the exciting response about his work: The immediacy and creativity of Pettis'™ work has spread like wildfire through the design blogosphere. My favourites are: the letter C, I like the curviness of the cobra the letter L, I like the mane and tail the letter R , I like the ears Here is what Jeremy said about his inspiration in his interview with Stephen Coles I found these old design annuals called “Modern Publicity. They have some great work from all around the world. I found a few from 1967-78 on Amazon fairly cheap. Collecting old design books can be a very expensive addiction. I love seeing great work from the pre-digital era. It seems ... Continue Reading

I was watching TV when I saw a small news clip about this site. The site is a very netflix like service, where you can rent toys for a small period of time.  On one hand this is really nice, as one can introduce variety without breaking the bank.  On the other hand, we need to address a very common situation in this age group - "Falling in love with a toy and refusing to part with it." I just hope that the business has thought of a contingency in this case.Miti (my son) and I were thinking on these lines a couple of years ago, when he wanted all the cool toys which I just could not afford to buy. We of course thought more on NGO lines where we could run a free toy library based on donor inputs. I just thought, wow how neat and about time too! And for all you neat freaks out there, as per the TV promo, I believe every toy between uses is sanitized and shrinkwrapped in ... Continue Reading