Holy sweet MERCY, stop what you’re doing and go watch the trailer for Watchmen RIGHT NOW.
The Force is strong with this iPhone.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
When I have an iPhone (a little later this year), I already know one program I’m going to buy for it…CHECK IT:
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed comes out for the iPhone in September, apparently, and it looks hawt.
(via TUAW)
Blank
Thursday, July 17, 2008
I’m pretty sure this is in response to the over-blown media noise-making about the recent cover illustration, but even if it’s not, yesterday’s totally safe animation from The New Yorker is hilarious.
A Terminator movie worth watching?
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
I just caught the teaser for Terminator: Salvation on Yahoo!’s movie page, and I have to say, I’m actually intrigued. Christian Bale plays John Connor, and after serious awesomeness in Batman Begins, The Prestige, and most likely The Dark Knight, I take this as a good sign.
Of course McG, the director, has some pretty nasty stains on his resume, so we’ll have to see how it shapes up over the next year as more details are revealed…
Tweeting Legislation?
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
It turns out that as politicians continue to crawl their way into the land of 21st-Century technology, Congress must consider the proper use of communication media like Twitter…
Slippery Italian Slope
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Many folks close to me know my obsession with many things Italian. While I’m only one quarter Sicilian, the prominence of my full-blood grandmother in my upbringing and the associated happy memories have fostered a deep love for the food, language, culture, and country of Italy.
But lately, I’m kinda pissed at the Italian government.
You see, it seems that they’re performing a fingerprint census of all Roma (or Gypsy) people in their country - including the 90% which claim Italian citizenship - in an effort to “crack down on crime.” This fingerprinting includes Roma children, but doesn’t include any non-Roma Italians (sounds confusing, but this doesn’t refer to residents of Rome).
I hope this sounds as obviously horrific to readers as it did to me and many in Italy’s population. This is terribly similar in concept to how Germany treated Jews leading up to WWII; blame a minority ethnic group for societal woes (in Italy’s case, theft and such) and set them apart, treating them differently than the rest of the population. That certainly snowballed into one of the greatest human tragedies in history.
Thankfully this isn’t the 1930’s, and the European Union took notice early on, so I don’t foresee any larger-scale escalation without the intervention of the international community. There are currently political efforts within Italy and without to stop this practice, and I hope it picks up steam.
Blogging the Class: Week 7
Monday, July 14, 2008
I’m starting to sense a pattern in this, the latter half of my photography class. Darkroom, darkroom, and more darkroom, with little in the form of instruction. I’ll not repeat what I’ve said the past two weeks, so here’s what I did tonight:
I focused on trying to get the best out of one particular image. I took my recently posted duck photograph and made three prints, two of which involved the technique of burning. Burning involves using a piece of opaque material (cardboard in my case) with a small hole cut out, moved around over the photo paper to expose only a desired portion of the image. On one image, for example, I exposed the whole image for 38 seconds with the aperture on the enlarger set to f11. Then I burned in the body of the duck for an additional 25 seconds in an attempt to coax more detail out of the feathers.
After all that, I think I have my first image worth putting in a frame 
Anyway, still no assignment (now three weeks in a row), so I’ll try to finish up my self-imposed experiment of photographing total strangers looking at or toward the camera.
Dan in Fake Life
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Dan in Real Life is a study in discomfort. In a movie filled with in-your-face metaphors and too-clever script contrivances, my main beef is the lengths to which this film goes to perpetuate an unrealistic and horribly tense family situation. Sure, there’s decent acting, some good camera work, some touching family moments…but it’s all over shadowed by the overwrought slow-motion train wreck that you can see from an hour away.
Two out of five.
And it’s funny because it involves poo!
Friday, July 11, 2008
Why don’t we have Mitchell and Webb broadcast in the United States? These guys are freaking hilarious.
Baman Piderman
Friday, July 11, 2008
You can thank me later for laughing your head off this Friday morning:
(via trey)
