Mighty, The (1998)

Yeah it's a "family" movie, and the premise is schmaltzy sounding, and you can see the story coming from miles away, but damn if I wasn't taken in but the two lead's performances.

Touching the Void (2004)

Pretty intense, but if you're an armchair mountaineer, like me, essential viewing!

Fuckin Photogs

An advance copy of U2's brand new album -- not due in stores until
November -- was stolen last week at a photo shoot in the south of
France, and the band is terrified it's going to turn up online, the
Telegraph reports. If so, lead singer Bono has a plan: "If it is on
the internet this week, we will release it immediately as a legal
download on iTunes, and get hard copies into the shops by the end of
the month," he told the paper. "It would be a real pity. It would screw
up years of work and months of planning, not to mention fucking up our
holidays. But once it's out, it's out."

'Jeopardy' Millionaire Is Smart, but Is He a Genius?

from the NYTimes.
If your a Jep-junkie like me, you'll know this streak is a result of a
recent change in rules. Previously you could only win 5 in a row and
then they saved you for a champion round. This guy is a robot, and is
slaying'em. Though from Salt Lake City, and a Mormon, he married a
woman from Ottawa and claims he watched so much Degrassi when growing
up he has a Cdn Accent! Don't know about that. The guy must have watch
a lot of something to get this smart. Ironically, I've stopped watching
the show, cuz it's not nearly as interesting with this guy steam
rolling over everyone. Though I'd love to see the show he loses!


'Jeopardy' Millionaire Is Smart, but Is He a Genius?
By JAMES GORMAN

Space News from the Space Coast

Space News from the Space Coast: "-plus 35 years, Apollo 11 team looks back"

Has it really been that long? I have been watching the television transmissions from Apollo 15. The grainy contrasty, some times static filled shots came from a camera mounted on a Rover that Houston controlled remotely while the astronauts walked around. So much done with so little, can you imagine the type of interactive experience we could collectively have if we did it today? Even the daily photos from the Mars Rovers blows my mind.

OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

A doc exploring the "journalistic" practises of the Fox News Channel. At least watch the trailer to see some wacky clips.

FUH2 | Fuck You And Your H2

My site of the week... tons of photos of people flipping the bird at Hummer H2's... evil truck!

Elephant Man

The whole thing was on History Channel the other night. I saw it years ago and recall it a rather straight telling of the story. But upon watching a second time, I was awe struck. This might be the second straightest movie Lynch made (the other? The Straight Story) but it still has some dark and twisted moments. The term steampunk applies to dark victorian era technology and it obvious lynch was fascinated by the dark dirty tech of the era. One can only imagine the version he would make now, with the carte blanche he gets on project. The acting is superb and there are some great moments of restrained Victorian emotion. The moment Hopkin's wife finally beaks down during her first meeting with Merrick, culminates at a point in the movie after building toward it for over an hour, if you get to this point, and have a dry eye, well you just aren't human. Again I wish Lynch would embrace the DVD format and at least coment on some of this stuff, some many scenes I would lave to hear his take on. Parts of this movie reminded me of his contribution to the project i watched a year ago. a whole bunch of directors were given the original movie camera, made by the Lumiere Bros, perhaps around the same time as teh Elephant Man takes place. Lynch's contribution stand head and shoulders above all the others and is the only sequence you'll want to watch several times, if only to try and figure out how he did it. The man is a genius of film, simple as that.

Cool HTML sig

Toycamera.com

More fun stuff with low tech cameras. The anti digital movement is alive and well

Top Ten Tips

Lomo top ten kooky things to do with yer camera

In Design Killer Tips

InDesign CS Killer Tips

The RSS feed

Don't ask, its a conversion from Atom to RSS, just subscribe already!!!

Wisdom Quotes

I could just click through a bunch of these. I love a good quote. They manage to distil the essence of what you perceive to be the truth.

Are U an Mac Fan?

A letter to David Pogue objecting to the term "Mac Fan". Fun read.

Disturbing Auctions

What people sell on ebay amazes me... check this site out for examples of weirdness.

creativepro.com - Hearst Magazines Adopt Adobe's Publishing Platform

In the continuing saga of whittling away at Quark. This is huge.

electronic music how-to

http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html

a site dedicated to educating people on the subtle differences between
all the electronic sub-genres.

Go there and learn, if only so you can utter lines like "I prefer deep
Goa over Ilbient anyday" at your next cocktail party. Instant stree
cred!

Postcards from the Past!

While cleaning under my porch of some very old lumber and junk I came
across remnants of two newspapers. I think when they made the porch
they just built over top the scraps of the previous mudroom. Hauling to
the landfill would have been costly back then.

The first was a Winnipeg Free Press from 1929, the front page story was
Manitoba's Lt Gov't Gen dies suddenly from acute appendicitis. Guess
that was a big illness back then. Society page chronicles who was off
to vaction in Vancouver and who had a lunch celebrating their kids
engagements. The Bay had some ads for "danities and tartlets"

The other was scraps of a Chicago Herald from 1928. The front page news
touting "Us Navy Dirigibles to be flying forts" referring to the
Navy's Dirigible project which would allow biplanes to be launched from
them!

Keep in mid back then Winnipeg was THE going concern, really THE
Chicago of the North. With both as commodities and live stock trading
centres, I could see the Chicago Herald being brought in frequently.

The papers crumbled in my hands upon inspection, dirty and rotten, I
had to throw them away. But they were very cool Postcards from the
Past!

My Tunes

A cover of radiohead's Everything in it's right place. Don't kill me, I can't sing worth a damn I know....

SEXY BEAST

"Who would have guessed that the most savage mad-dog frothing gangster in recent movies would be played by--Ben Kingsley? Ben Kingsley, who was Gandhi, and the accountant in 'Schindler's List,' and the publisher in 'Betrayal,' and Dr. Watson in 'Without a Clue.' Ben Kingsley, whose previous criminal was the financial wizard Meyer Lansky in 'Bugsy'? Yes, Ben Kingsley. Or, as his character Don Logan says in 'Sexy Beast,' 'Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes.'"

saw this on TV, the second time, Kingsley does a great job. Death and the Maiden was on at the same time just to hammer home his ability as an actor

Free Comic Day

I went to Cover to Cover in Ft Richmond, on our way back from biking to The ST Norbert market. I was met with a scene that coulda been outa Ghost World.

Two young girls behind the counter, rather geeky in appearance (sorry no other way to put it, maybe geeky by association, I mean they work in a comic shop!) A white patio table set by the window with syrofoam glasses of coke and orange pop with a sign, printed out on the computer "Free drinks, help yourself, D is for diet" Some of the cups had a letter "d" drawn on them,.... and absolutely no one in the shop! what were there were piles upon piles of the free special issues waiting for the throngs that won't show. They also gave me a couple FREE hero clicks with my comic, piles of Spierman and Hulk heroclicks waiting for excited kids to snap them up.

"where are the huge crowds of people?" I ask
" Dunno, they musta came before we opened", That could be, they opened at 11am cuz I dropped by on the way out and it was closed...
"How long you've been here?"
"'bout three years"
"well thats good isn't it" I asked looking for some ray of hope.
"Yeah we haven't closed yet!" the girl replied, bringing the pathetic showing back into focus....

I wandered around, wanting to buy the whole damn store up, but with Lynda outside with the bikes waiting, I took my free stuff and left. My heart went out to this shop. If there is ONE day the geeks should rule, its the day that is celebrated all over North America, giving away a little piece of the magic that we find so appealing, making the rest of them understand, just a little....

Licence to Grill

Could this be my new favourite TV show? I love watching this guy doing his BBQ thing! Funny how everyone is getting into grilling now..