“Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” from Aaron Paul
Haven’t been blogging because I’ve been in New York City where it’s a sweltering 90 degrees with 100% humidity. Why go in August, you ask? Never again….
This is a trailer to a movie that isn’t. It’s doesn’t exist but the trailer sure takes the piss out of a [...]
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Validation
I ran across this nifty “Short Movie” at Yay!Everyday and it really made me smile. Hope it does the same for you. It’s about what we all need; some good old personal validation.
Sherlock Holmes: End Credits
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 [...]
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco
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 [...]
The Matrix as Charlie Chaplin Short
This is a short of The Matrix done in the style of Charlie Chaplin by a Russian actors group called “Big Difference.” (Seen at Boing Boing.)
The “Green Shoots” of Recovery
Paul Krugman points to a post at the Wall Street Journal, “Fed Chairman Chauncey Gardiner: You Must Believe In Spring“. It’s kinda scary to think that Fed chairman Bernanke pronouncements are as daft as the Peter Sellers character in that memorable movie, Being There. Sadly, I think this is all too close to reality.
CHANCE: As [...]
Art & Copy
“Advertising makes food taste better, makes cars run better, it changes the perception of everything.” Art & Copy is a new documentary about the advertising industry and the creativity of the people behind it. The interviewees are a who’s who of the ad business in the past 20 years: Lee Clow, Dan Wieden and David [...]
Wall-E Goes to the Dark Side
The movie Wall-E was a lot of fun; a light romantic tale in a distopia future. I liked Watchmen as well (but not as much as the graphic novel itself). Now some clever weisenheimer has made a brilliant mashup of the two movies’ trailers that I find very satisfying. (Tip o’ de hat to Jparker [...]
Wolf and Pig
Great stop-motion photography (of photographs!) by a Japanese guy (here’s his site). It must have taken a v-e-r-y long time to do this! Terrific results, tho. (Seen on The J-Walk Blog)
