April 2009
20 posts
4/29/09
You know everything’s going to be fine when your iTunes shuffle starts with Hoppipolla.
“P-51! Cadillac of the sky!”
– Movie Quote of the Week
Previous Answer:
A Fistful of Dollars>
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-26) →
Little Feat (11)
Grateful Dead (7)
The Nightwatchman (6)
John Mayer Trio (6)
Bob Dylan (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-4-19) →
Little Feat (8)
Sigur Rós (4)
Feist (3)
John Williams (2)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“My mistake. Four coffins.”
– Movie Quote of the Week.
Previous Answer:
The Proposition>
Hollywood Portfolio 2009 da Vanity Fair por Annie... →
Directors and their stars.
April 14, 1912: Coming Full-Circle
Ninety-seven years ago, First Officer Murdoch shouted “Hard a-starboard!” over the Atlantic. This call was the futile command to try and divert the RMS Titanic from her famous course. At about twenty minutes to midnight, the ship struck an iceberg, guessed to be about 400 feet long. The iceberg crushed the metal paneling on the side of the ship, causing the panels’ top ends to...
The Iron Giant →
Probably the last great animated feature before Pixar took over mainstream animations.
4/13/09
Just as an FYI, I’ve added comments to my Tumblr now. You can post comments using a Tumblr account, Google account (Blogger), or anonymously. That may help make things a little less confusing and convoluted.
-rwl2
“I will civilize this land.”
– Movie quote of the week.
Previous answer:
The Long Good Friday>
“Me, I’d rather be in the world where I know all violent crime is not OK,...”
– Owen Good, in an article on Kotaku
Judge Mathis Game to Use Prison Rape to Reinforce Making Positive Choices
Gleaning potential controversy from Konami's 'Six... →
Making a game about the Iraq war? While it’s still going on? Not to mention one of the most controversial and violent battles of the war? Probably not the most intelligent or sensitive decision.
Besides being the bloodiest battle of the Iraq War, the battle is controversial mostly for the Americans’ use of White Phosphorus as an offensive weapon. While not considered a chemical...
“What I’m looking for is someone who can contribute to what England has...”
– Movie quote of the week.
Guess it.
Ferdinand Under the Cork Tree →
I made an animated version of one of the illustrations from Ferdinand the Bull in Flash.
4/4/09
Last night I got the chance to see my teacher Blake Carrington’s MFA show, called Cathedral Scan. He created a patch in Max/MSP/Jitter that took a MIDI input from a keyboard and sent the signal as a scan over the plans of Gothic Cathedrals; the different shapes of the plans affected the rhythm and timbre of the audio signal. The show was two hours long, and was completely mesmerizing. He...
WatchWhat Else Is There? on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
whoa.
Disney Movies
Three Disney films and why they’re great:
The Great Mouse Detective | Dir. Ron Clements & Burny Mattinson, 1986 | Probably the most immediate reason why The Great Mouse Detective stands out from most other Disney movies is that it is very dark (in multiple senses). The opening scene really pretty terrifying. Olivia, a young girl (mouse) witnesses her father getting abducted from their...
