"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up." We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful. Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance A punctured bicycle
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Will nature make a man of me yet? All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life. Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on. It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause | Inception is the word on the tip of everyone’s tongues these days. If you haven’t seen Inception yet then you can’t wait until you do, and if you have seen it then you probably can’t wait to head to the theater and see it again. But while you are waiting to see Inception on the big screen you can experience it on the web, in trailer parody form, again and again and again. We aren’t sure exactly what it is about this trailer that inspired so many people to create parodies—maybe the fact that it was one of the most [ continue reading inception – the ‘top 10′ mashups ] from Pleated Jeans via I love charts ‘Inception’ explained – chart. Infographic: 120 fake sci-fi events on a real-world timeline | Blastr. YouTube – Lebron James Nike Commercial – Swimming Pool. This video is part of the Mammoths and Mastadons exhibit at The Field Museum in Chicago, and was the Long Short for our Seminar with Nils Gilman. It’s a reverse time lapse put together by Greg Mercer and Emily Ward (editing), and David Quednau (animation). Unwinding 20,000 years of a modern American city and frontier outposts, Native American settlements and the last ice age, we arrive in their world and resurrect them in film. Perhaps most interesting is that this film is not the only place mammoths can now come alive, but also as Stewart points [ continue reading Mammoth Time Lapse ] After noticing the beauty behind xkcd‘s beautiful graphs depicting the Interactions of Movie Characters, Stanford student Vadim Ogievetsky decided to develop an online software tool that would allow him to generate visually similar looking versions. Accordingly, PlotWeaver [stanford.edu] presents an efficient and effective layout algorithm that, with the users help, generates visual results similar to these hand-crafted posters. Ultimately, his aim is to even automate the whole process from movie script or IMDB quote page to a beautiful representative visual depiction. According to his resulting student paper, the software allows to clone the “Star Wars” visualization [ continue reading PlotWeaver: Automating xkcd’s Movie Character Interaction Graphs ] YouTube – A Few Good Man “You Can’t Handle the Truth”. you sleep under the security that my silence provides did I say I love time-travel films? Timelines: Time travel in popular film and tv. A secret agent is abducted after resigning and finds himself imprisoned in a surreal village from which there is no escape. Engaging in a battle of wits with his mysterious captors, the new arrival is determined not to remain a prisoner for long. First episode of the cult Sixties drama, starring Patrick McGoohan, Paul Eddington and George Baker. WELL! Lots of film posters say ‘MASTERPIECE’ but this time the claim is damn near justified in my opinion. Such extreme order and control then something so dysfunctional it couldn’t last. Lots of references and homages and yet the film remains unto itself. Only four of us in the cinema which was a pity as it should be seen by many. Director, story , screenplay Luca Guadagnino Interesting fact 1: The title comes from the aria “La Mamma Morta” from “Andrea Chernier” by Girodano. It’s the same aria that Tom Hanks’ lawyer dying of AIDS goes on about in “Philadelphia.” [ continue reading I am love (Luca Guadagnino) ] Found on a shelf and rewatched, made same year, 1979, as Kramer v Kramer and Apocalypse Now. Big year – Scheider superb, Hoffman got very lucky! All That Jazz IMDB 7.6/10 9,141 votes Swatch Creart / Grems from THANK YOU on Vimeo. Busy weekend at cinema and theatre. Anthony Sher and whole cast great in Enemy of the people, with a very sudden ending! In Crazy Heart Jeff Bridges good at being Jeff Bridges in a slow, rambling film with a greasy Colin Farrel and a very lovely but inexpicably romantically-linked Maggie Gyllenhall, (where was Robert Duvall’s ‘head at’ and was there a big bit chopped out of our print?). Very easy to see how it received the Best Actor Oscar especially in such a politically-charged anti-Avatar Oscar season [IMDB 7.6/10, 7,363 votes]. Far and away the best gig of the [ continue reading a weekend in the dark ] Though it’s called a race, the Race Across America is no ordinary cycling competition. Instead, this is an epic challenge for even the most hardy ultra-endurance riders, who press themselves to pedal 3,000 miles from the Pacific to the Atlantic in just over 12 days. Finishing itself is an accomplishment: most years, about half of the participants drop out along the way due to exhaustion or medical issues that come as a result of riding 20 – 22 hours round-the-clock in the mountains, the desert, the heat and the cold and the rain. Film maker Stephen [ continue reading Movie Review: BICYCLE DREAMS — inside the Race Across America ] Great Hoax, good night at the cinema but left wondering if there was any truth in anything. Just as it should be. With pixelated tongue in blanked-out cheek, Banksy claims that he persuaded Guetta not to make his own film, but to be the star of this one, and then to be an artist himself. In no time, Guetta is somehow producing hundreds of suspiciously accomplished Warhol-Banksy pop art-style knockoffs for a colossal Los Angeles show under his new street-art name “Mr Brainwash”. Well, Thierry Guetta may well exist – but at the mention of his Mr Brainwash output, you [ continue reading exit through the gift shop ] You might want to take a different approach when shopping for a 3D TV than a standard HDTV. Instead of just looking at the picture quality, you should also take a serious look at the brand’s 3D glasses. Some show some clear advantages to purchase that brand’s 3D TV and until there’s a standard format for 3D glasses, each brand requires its own unique glasses, thereby locking you into that manufacturer’s products. Yeah, it’s a bit messy right now. Click through for details on all of them. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» TechCrunch The Field [ continue reading The Field Guide To Modern 3D Glasses ] I had no idea how many outdoor scenes on TV shows are shot on a green screen. Here’s a reel with several before and after examples. (via that’s how it happened) Tags: TV video (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» kottke.org Green screened: .) The Prophet, IMDB 8.2/10 Astonishing gruelling, not a duff performance in it – jail isn’t fun if it’s like this and I don’t think many people could have survived these circumstances. Should be showered with awards everywhere. Depresses for days and leaves one wondering. Up in the air IMDB 8.0/10 Billed as a romcom but is actually on the verge of making a serious pre 9/11 point, book Walter Kirn. Clooney plays it as Cary Grant rather than as a man enduring a slow, persisting nervous breakdown and when he has his burning-bush moment the writers don’t have [ continue reading three films in a week, hard going in parts, visibility – good ] Idiot bombers should have been figures of derision long ago, especially given the alleged macho and mysoginistic brain-washing techniques that they have endured. They obviously have very little regard for any living thing, including themselves, so are dehumanised. In fact they must be devoid of the very thing that defines every living thing on the planet; the urge to survive and pro-create. It is not hard to see how facing overwhelming odds, oppression, poverty, imprisonment, torture, landlessness, and envy can dehumanise a person and that this inspires total and fanatical opposition and extreme deeds. However we also have Nelson [ continue reading Funny thing about Sheffield terrorists… – Sheffield Telegraph ] This is actually a really good film – far better than the Phantom Menace. Chances are you probably didn’t like Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. You might be a Star Wars fan, or at least a fan of the original trilogy. After waiting in line for hours, days, weeks, you may have even written a mini 200-400 word review on an internet message board somewhere. If you were a working movie critic, you might have even written [ continue reading Watch This: 70-Minute Video Review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace | /Film ] This is very good – but what does it mean for the future? Editor’s note: Earlier this week, guest writer Ashkan Karbasfrooshan wrote a post about the state of online video. In this post he follows up with some thoughts on what’s holding back this budding industry. Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo, a leading producer of premium, informative and entertaining video content. The company’s catalog of 5,000 videos has generated over 100 million streams since 2006. Photo credit: Flickr/Paraflyer. After four years in the online video business, one thing is clear: if you produce high quality [ continue reading 12 Surprising Things Holding Back Online Video Advertising ] “Unlike articles, you can’t fool audiences as easily with videos. It’s easier to get away with a slapdash article than with a slapdash video. Thus, most of the existing online video content relies on ‘talking head’ footage and Q&A formats which are relatively simple to produce. Most of the videos that pass for professionally produced videos should be articles. No wonder marketers remain hesitant to underwrite the genre.” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> TechCrunch The State of Online Video: Getting Paid for Content: .) Avatar, James Cameron’s blockbusting 3D film, is both profoundly silly and profound. It’s profound because, like most films about aliens, it is a metaphor for contact between different human cultures. But in this case the metaphor is conscious and precise: this is the story of European engagement with the native peoples of the Americas. It’s profoundly silly because engineering a happy ending demands a plot so stupid and predictable that it rips the heart out of the film. The fate of the native Americans is much closer to the story told in another new film, The Road, in which a [ continue reading Monbiot: “Avatar is a profound, insightful, important film” ] The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. [Aborted] Christmas Card from FLIMEMA on Vimeo. Cinnamon Chasers – Luv Deluxe (Music Video) from Saman Keshavarz on Vimeo. Last Day Dream [HD] from Chris Milk on Vimeo. “Last Day Dream” a man watches his life pass before him Quicktime version http://chrismilk.com/42/ Produced for the 42 Second Dream Film Festival Beijing China 2009 www.42×42.com Shot entirely on Lensbaby Lenses and Canon 5D Mark II SLR Camera | Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?" Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes. There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile. Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit "Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. heavy words thrown lightly And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” |
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