I am 45 and was born with a genetic immune disorder. I am on cobra from my divorce 2 years ago but it runs out in a year. I can’t buy health insurance because of my pre-existing condition. The Government doesn’t look like it will pass health care reform now. My job doesn’t offer benefits either. I am stuck in the middle.
Ms. Carlson seems a sweet gal and is getting her 15 minutes of Internet fame. Her effort is an innovative approach to getting health insurance but, at its heart, a very sad comment on the state of American health care.
I really enjoyed Guy Richie’s recent movie, Sherlock Holmes. Yeah, it was violent and there wasn’t much “Elementary, my dear Watson.” However there was some great action and the homoerotic relationship was a direction that Conan Doyle never would have contemplated.
Above is the final credit sequence and it is an amazing work of art. You can read and see more about the guy who did this at The Art of the Title Sequence blog:
The sequence creative director Danny Yount, a self-taught Emmy-winning designer/director produced main titles for Six Feet Under and The Grid while at Digital Kitchen. He currently resides at Prologue Films and has created titles for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man and RockNRolla.
I was watching the Rachel Maddow Show just before the turn of the year and she presented these two videos. They were created by two rival Seattle-area high schools. The first video presents the rockin’ OutKast tune Hey Ya, lip-synced by everyone of the students at Shorecrest. It’s amazing and irresistible. Go watch.
The second video is from rival high school, Shorewood, lip-syncing Hall and Oat’s You Make My Dreams Come True. The students work very hard to beat out their competition; can you tell what they did besides making the video one, long tracking shot?
I’ve been in airplane mode for the past month recovering from surgery. The good news is that I’ve had enough time to catch up on all three previous seasons of 30 Rock.
Rick Prelinger, a “guerrilla” film archivist, presents a wonderful collection of moving images of San Francisco under the auspices of The Long Now Foundation. He starts around 1904 and goes up through the 1960s. Of particular interest to me is the opening ride up Market Street to the Ferry Building (1904). Around 53:00 minutes there is the victory parade for World War One with people on the street wearing masks against the 1918 flu epidemic. Also, the Pan Am Clipper taking off at the Golden Gate Exposition on Treasure Island in August, 1941 (54:00 minutes) was like seeing a real life scene from Indiana Jones.
If you love San Francisco, you’ll want to see this amazing footage. (Tip o’ de hat to Kotke.org and Boing Boing.)
