Posted in Disability, Ideas, Learning Disabilities, Movies, People, Video on Feb 8th, 2011 No Comments »
Film overview: For Once in my Life Watch For Once in my Life Jim Bigham and Mark Moorman document a few months in the lives of a group of disabled adults who work at Goodwill Industries of South Florida. Under the direction of Javier Pena, the Goodwill Band gets ready to Perform their biggest show [...]
Posted in Movies, Tech Stuff, Travel on Feb 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Gogo plans to expand into in-flight movies, possibly gaming I use Gogo wifi on my United flights from New York to Los Angeles and while I find it useful, it’s deadly slow for video or any high bandwidth media. They’re going to have to beef up their bandwidth if they’re going to show movies over [...]
Posted in Ideas, Movies, Video on Feb 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
Everything is a Remix Part 2 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo. An entertaining and well thought out discussion of remixing, this part covering film. When you come right down to it, everything really is a remix. We’re all standing on the shoulders of our genetic and behavioral experience. Of course where did the “original” ingredients [...]
Posted in Ideas, Movies, Opinion, People, Reading on Jan 12th, 2011 5 Comments »
Man of Mystery, Why do people love Stieg Larsson’s novels? Joan Acocella at the New Yorker has an excellent critique, background, and overview of Stieg Larsson’s novels and the films made from them in the January 10th issue. It seems Larsson’s background and possible motivations for inventing a character like Lisbeth Salander are as complex [...]
Posted in Movies, Tech Stuff on Jan 8th, 2011 6 Comments »
I Just Want a Dumb TV We’ve had a “new” HD TV for a little over a year now and while our TV has a fantastic picture its menu of features and their implementation is less than wonderful. Our TV is a Sony KDL-40EX700 40″ BRAVIA HDTV. It has 4 HDMI inputs and a USB [...]
Posted in Movies, Stories, Video on Jan 1st, 2011 No Comments »
Ken Kesey’s classic story SomeTimes a Great Notion about the Stamper family logging on the Oregon coast is very tough to find on DVD but there’s hope, the entire movie is on YouTube in eleven segments and can be watched full screen on anything that can get access to YouTube. The segments are nicely cut [...]
Posted in Movies, Places, Studio Photography on Nov 24th, 2010 No Comments »
LaPorte, Indiana Trailer from Joe Beshenkovsky & Jason Bitner on Vimeo. My wife’s a Hoosier (from the Evansville at the other end of the state) but this documentary is something I’d be interested in anyway. Thousands of images from a local studio photographer rebuild the history of a town much like a Ken Burns film [...]
Posted in Humor, Movies, Video on Nov 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Four twenty somethings sitting in a diner talking about the movie Back to the Future. Amazingly, this movie holds up to this day because it’s a comedy and that gives it license to do whatever the story needs, even if that means Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) fogging illogical situations with a bunch of scientific sounding [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Movies, Tech Stuff on Oct 29th, 2010 2 Comments »
Ask a Hacker: Does The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest Know What She’s Doing? The interesting thing is, everything that she does is completely plausible—it’s the way she does it that is for the most part completely nonsensical as a technical matter. Well, she chose the right computer (MacBook Pro), the rest is details. [...]
Posted in Ideas, Movies on Aug 26th, 2010 No Comments »
Bullied is a documentary film that chronicles one student’s ordeal at the hands of anti-gay bullies and offers an inspiring message of hope to those fighting harassment today. It can become a cornerstone of anti-bullying efforts in middle and high schools. Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case That Made History As one who [...]
Posted in Movies, People on Jul 29th, 2010 No Comments »
The Age of Laura Linney This is an excellent profile piece by Frank Bruni on this under-appreciated, excellent actress. Her sleeper: You Can Count on Me is one of our favorite movies. Laura Linney at Wikipedia
Posted in Events, Movies, People, Reading on Jul 9th, 2010 No Comments »
‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Anniversary: Anna Quindlen On The Greatness Of Scout The book To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960, this is its 50th year in print. The film was made in 1962. Every kid has had that house in the neighborhood that your friends would dare you to knock at on Halloween. [...]
Posted in Movies, People, Photographers on Jun 1st, 2010 1 Comment »
Remembering Dennis Hopper, photographer A short LA Times piece on the late Dennis Hopper’s photography. More on Hopper’s photography here: Dennis Hopper, Behind the Camera And the Canvas..
Posted in iPad, Movies, Travel on May 12th, 2010 No Comments »
iPad to be Used as Inflight Entertainment System Bluebox Avionics is building the first iPad-driven in-flight entertainment system. What a great idea. [via Jonne Naarala]
Posted in Ideas, Movies, People on Mar 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Jaime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to ‘Stand and Deliver’ Jaime Escalante, the charismatic former East Los Angeles high school teacher who taught the nation that inner-city students could master subjects as demanding as calculus, died Tuesday. He was 79. The subject of the 1988 film “Stand and Deliver,” [...]
Posted in Animation, Movies, Video on Dec 10th, 2009 3 Comments »
French Roast Wonderful French animated short film. Check it out.
Posted in Movies, Travel on Sep 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Up in the Air Wow, this movie is going to be great (I hope). I logged a lot of air miles in my time, I can relate to some of this. George Clooney stars in it, that’s enough for me.
Posted in Movies, People on Jul 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Where the Wild Things Are (behind the scenes) A promotional video for the new movie Where the Wild Things Are. Maurice Sendak talks about how Spike Jonze has taken the book and made something new out of it (it seems like he’s pleased). Looks great, can’t wait to see it. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Movies, Places on Jun 16th, 2009 2 Comments »
Sonja Sharp for Mother Jones: Bollywood for Beginners. Fantastic overview of Hindi cinema with videos. Wow, this is a time suck but it’s quite a great overview and worth exploring, even if you’ve seen much of this before. The commentary is excellent. [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Ideas, Movies, Social Software on Apr 17th, 2009 2 Comments »
Deal Brings TV Shows and Movies to YouTube In another step in its transformation from an online jumble of amateur videos to a destination for mainstream TV programs and movies, YouTube said Thursday that it had signed deals with Hollywood studios to showcase thousands of TV episodes and hundreds of movies on its Web site. [...]
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