May 9th, 2008 |
Where were the kids TV shows that booked indie bands (like Jenny Lewis, above) when I was a kid? I might have discovered the good stuff when I was, like, seven instead of seventeen! I don’t know anything about this Pancake Mountain show other than that they have good bands on, but that’s enough. They [...]
May 5th, 2008 |
CommonCraft has put together a number of these “in Plain English” videos explaining various Web2.0 concepts and applications; they’re all worth watching, both informative and entertaining. Since I’m currently in the process of Twitter-addiction, I put this one up, but also check out the ones on RSS, Blogs, Wikis, photo sharing, social bookmarking, etc. And, [...]
May 1st, 2008 |
barringer82 over on YouTube has a bunch of compilation videos of different directors and time periods. This one is to Stanley Kubrick, of 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, and many, many other [...]
April 22nd, 2008 |
Pretty cool video showing the process of transforming the animated Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit? into a photo-realistic version, with the help of PhotoShop and several real-life actresses. It’s not hard to guess who the model is for Jessica’s face, but I was off on my prediction that it was Amy Adams’ hair. [...]
April 16th, 2008 |
So my newest procrastination technique is watching videoblogs, like Mahalo Daily. Found this one, which is ostensibly about Veronica Belmont learning to speak French, but is really an imitation of New Wave techniques. The tracking shot at the end is obviously a recreation of the opening of Contempt (and the music is very Contempt-esque as [...]
April 13th, 2008 |
My friends and I just watched North by Northwest for Sunday Movie Night (great tradition, BTW). If my records are correct, this is the ninth time I’ve seen it, and I still love it just as much every time. Oh, Hitchcock. In tribute, one of the most iconic scenes ever filmed.
April 9th, 2008 |
Today is Jean-Paul Belmondo’s birthday, so I wanted to post a clip of him. Except Youtube wouldn’t cooperate in giving me Belmondo-focused clips that I actually like, and I didn’t have time to make my own. What is with the horrible quality of EVERY Breathless clip on Youtube, incidentally? Anyway, this is [...]
April 2nd, 2008 |
Battlestar Galactica Season Four starts on Friday. Above is an 8-minute recap of the first three seasons, which is quick, to the point, amusingly snarky, and narrated by Katee Sackhoff. It’s worth watching even if you, like me, just watched all of S3 in three days and thus don’t really need the refresher, [...]