December 31st, 2007 |
I don’t really get into Second Life (the client tends to crash my computer, for one thing), but this video shows what lovely things can be made in it with enough time and ability at manipulating its objects. It’s Van Gogh’s Starry Night recreated in 3D almost from scratch, set to the Don McLean’s [...]
December 31st, 2007 |
This post is part of a project to watch the Film Bloggers’ 100 Favorite Non-English Films. See my progress here.
Day of Wrath
Denmark 1943; dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer
starring: Lisbeth Movin, Thorkild Roose, Preben Lerdorff Rye
screened: 12/18/07, VHS
Previous Viewing Experience: Never seen it.
Knowledge Before Viewing: Not too much, just that it’s a Dreyer film. I [...]
December 24th, 2007 |
Mark suggested that I atone for my previous elitist post by posting an eye-candy action movie sequence. I’ve been trying to think of an unusual one to match the parkour scene from District B-13 I posted a while back, but what with being on vacation, home, and my computer deciding not to let me [...]
December 15th, 2007 |
The major film critic awards have been trickling out over the past few weeks, most of them honoring the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men and other semi-indie, art-house end of the year releases, prompting Time’s Richard Corliss to wonder “Do Film Critics Know Anything?”. Basically, he likes all the films that won, [...]
December 10th, 2007 |
Cool list, with screencaps, of Pixar films referencing other Pixar films. I *heart* Pixar.
December 9th, 2007 |
This is some pretty awesome guitar-playing. The real kind, not the Guitar Hero kind. Found via Lisa on Facebook.
December 9th, 2007 |
The commercials for American Idol have been talking about a big change for this year, and I immediately hoped they were going to start including instruments, something that Australian Idol has done for the last two years to great success. And I was right! I’m really excited now. Incidentally, I hadn’t meant [...]
December 8th, 2007 |
We had a Spaced marathon last night, and this was probably my favorite scene (of many). Spaced is a British sitcom written by and starring Simon Pegg of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. In this scene, Tim (Pegg) and Daisy (Jessica Stevenson) are confronted by a group of young thugs who [...]