Something bugging me. It’s been bugging me since 100 Days 2008. But it’s come back since I’ve been reading Hargood and Millard on Narrative and Theme. It’s bugging me in a good way. But here’s the story. Let’s say you watch John Timmons’s video perusals. Of course, a first viewing will produce an interpretation or [...]
As we’re fans of Michael Dante DiMartino’s animated Avatar, my son and I attended Shyamalan’s version today titled The Last Airbender. My first response is, “What was he thinking?” and “It’s not that hard.” The animated work is an excellent unification story, a journey narrative of impressive complexity, color, and emotional pull. Aang, the last [...]
Monday is the Solstice. 8:30 or so and dusk can still be seen. Great. This summer I have a few projects. Some are trivial. Prep for Fall teaching, bone up some programming. Other things not so much. In May I decided to learn how to play the guitar. And 100 Days is pulsing like the [...]
The past few years have seen different themes. Last year we were talking and studying jazz music and its relationship to issues of performance, creativity, history, hypertext, and new media. This semester, we’ve picked up a new or more elaborate theme: film, new media, hypertext, and performance: we’ve gone from Roberto Bolaño through to Anthony [...]
December 19, 2009 – 3:08 pm
James Cameron’s Avatar, much like Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, takes computer generated graphics and human to digital gesture drama and expands the possibilities of filmic space. Films are learning what computer-based games have knows for years: that you can use the tools to envision creatures, characters, and worlds that simply cannot be done with [...]
August 18, 2009 – 2:28 pm
My daughter and I hit District 9. We were a few minutes late and missed some of the background but not much. It’s documentary approach was immediately riveting. Wikus van der Merwe, played by Charlto Copley, was fantastic and the grittiness of the Johannesburg slums, the weaponry, and characterizations of the aliens was amazing in [...]
Here’s today’s bear encounter: And my son’s encounter:
Mark Bernstein provides this link to a Tribune Entertainment weblog, a discussion between Maureen Ryan and Ronald Moore on Battlestar Galactica, which sheds some light on the thinking behind the program. Twitter has lots of commentary on BSG and its conclusive episodes. The final episode, indeed the last few years, of BSG have been fun, [...]
January 6, 2009 – 6:40 am
My friend Patrice Hamilton has a write up by Susan Dunne in the Hartford Courant today. The focus is on Patrice’s film Exposure. Dunne writes: But the real star is the woman behind the camera, who is working on two new screenplays and, if she gets financing, would love to shoot them in the state. [...]
Here’s the context: Jesse Abbot of English and Philosophy stepped into the office and introduced the idea that Gaius Baltar of Battlestar was one of the most interesting bad guys to come along in a while. So he agreed to a recording and I ran for the Edirol.
Abbot on Gaius Baltar:
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I’d love to see what this silent comedy is all about. From Deemer: Actors are sitting on ready for the summer silent comedy. What a great group. We’ll be doing this one a little differently, far more rehearsal and concern for style and look.
February 15, 2008 – 7:41 pm
Deadwood is amazing. But for the background. Dan Dority, for example, played by W. Earl Brown, is totally realized. On screen, his manner, style of speech, habits and shape fit into Deadwood’s world without seam. Last week we saw Dan streetfight with Captain Turner (Allan Graf). Dan is getting it pretty good. He reaches out, [...]
December 1, 2007 – 5:24 pm
Two of the same animations about eight megabits each.
November 18, 2007 – 7:51 pm
Congratulations to Patrice Hamilton and crew for entry into the New FilmMakers festival for her full-length Exposure. Exposure, edited by John Timmons, is a wonderful work and I’ll cover more of it here in the next couple of days. Yipee.
September 9, 2007 – 1:45 pm
Josh comments on this rather old post on movie criteria, which reminds me that archives are good for mining. Anyway, he wants to know the “So bad it was good” part of Equilibrium. I honestly don’t remember, but I do remember that I thought it a Matrix/Minority Report/Gattaca ripoff and found its pistol dancing smarmy. [...]
That Night I Wandered on my Homeward Way (DrunkenBoat 10)
100 Days: 100 Poems, Summer 2008
