Ars Technica: New Orphaned Works Act would limit copyright liability: Huge, important story from last week and NO MENTIONS on the New York Times or any other major news outlet. Shameful. Anyway basically there are now House and Senate bills that would limit your exposure to litigation if you make a good-faith effort to determine […]
Category Archives: film
Be Kind Rewind
March 2, 2008 – 9:26 pm
Six minutes of joy in a 101 minute-sized bag. Although superficially Gondryesque, I thought it was missing his dream-logic that made The Science Of Sleep so wonderful (save one sequence).
Grand Mall
January 28, 2008 – 1:54 pm
So I’ve been living with my iPhone for about a week and it’s great, best thing ever. The most valuable information is about how to accomplish your goals, and so far I’ve figured out a store’s new location and checked a recipe while in a supermarket, those kinds of things. Very difficult to do with […]
Two links
January 25, 2008 – 5:55 am
Booksthatmakeyoudumb figured out the correlation between the ten most popular books at colleges as listed on Facebook and the average SAT scores for students at those colleges, and the result: people reading Atlas Shrugged aren’t as good at taking standardized tests as people reading Lolita. Which might not be that damning, when you think about […]
Rocket Science is not an awesome movie
January 14, 2008 – 5:49 pm
but this is funny if you were a philosophy major
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Spike Jonze - Lakai Fully Flared
January 10, 2008 – 9:10 am
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If you get a chance, watch it on DVD
I have to embed this
January 7, 2008 – 9:44 am
via BoingBoing. By the way, I HIGHLY recommend the audio version of Catching The Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity - it’s great.
Andy Warhol eats a hamburger
November 17, 2007 – 8:51 am
I found this so compelling. Andy moves like a child. It’s like the fast food version of Empire. Found at Hysterical Paroxysm.
The backstory: this shot is taken from Jørgen Leth’s 1981 66 Scenes From America. You might know Leth as the mentor of Lars Von Trier, a relationship made famous by their film The Five […]
Eagle Versus Shark
November 2, 2007 – 8:35 pm
…is so aggressively twee that I can’t even handle it. I’m turning it off. I’m going to watch Battlestar Galactica: Razor instead. I mean, um, Les Rendez-vous d’Anna.
Odds n’ sods
September 17, 2007 – 7:03 pm
I’m sick today; it started yesterday. Sore throat and body aches. Boring. Should be better by tomorrow.
I just bought a 24″ LCD for my MacBook and it was a frustrating experience. I wound up with a cheap ($408 taxes and shipping in) Acer with a potentially low-color TN panel with no component and no HDMI […]
Movies I’ve liked recently and whyyyy
September 4, 2007 – 5:55 pm
Halloween: I actually only liked the first hour, the Michael backstory. HOWEVER! The whole thing made me think that Rob Zombie’s really talented, and now I’m looking forward to his next project. That isn’t Halloween II/10. Also: found out that Danielle Harris is 30 years old and not 17!
King of Kong: Not as good as […]
Mood music: Carlos d’Allessio, end credits from Delicatessen
August 31, 2007 – 10:51 am
A post over at Enthusiasm turned me on to Carlos d’Allessio’s soundtrack for Delicatessen, which was only ever available in France and Japan. (Go there and download the song Duo, as well.) This track is a kind of accordion calypso, maybe? Try it.
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