The Nine Inch Nails concert next week is coming up fast, and I’m pumped. To get you pumped as well, I figured I’d jazz you up with a little something I got by way of Rassi.
Monthly Archive for March, 2007
I hate hate hate that Cinematical and Joystiq posts always start with an ‘introductory paragraph’. It’s like they have a certain post– and word-count they need to hit every day, and the result is too much bla-bla-blaing.
I picked up The Apocalypse Now Book recently, and I’m eager to read it. Few movies — in fact, I can’t think of any off the top of my head — are as all-engrossing and poetic to me as Apocalypse Now.
I would buy the recent Dossier edition DVD set, but it still isn’t available in Denmark, and Sandrew-Metronome won’t allow for Danish stores to carry the region 1 set. Understandable; imagine what would happen if I could just walk into a store and buy it?! The horror. The horror.
I highly recommend “this hour and a half documentary on film editing”:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1873681186241686073.
Update: Sorry, it’s gone.
The is a documentary about the unappreciated art of film editing. It shows how film editing came about, and explains all the groundbreaking … all » ways it has changed the film watching experience. There are a bunch of interviews from big names in the film industry including Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Jodie Foster, and many more. This is really a must see for any big film buff.
Update: Aha! It turns out that it is available for purchase on Amazon! Thanks Goose.
You hate shelling out all your savings on games? Yeah, me too. But there’s a reason games are so expensive.
For our trip to Paris, I booked a room at the Little Palace Hotel.
It was a quite pleasant stay, though a bit on the expensive side for our tastes. The bathroom however almost made up for it. Unfortunately I don’t have any shots of the bathroom itself, but I did manage to cover the rest of the hotel quite well.
Check out the flickr set.
I’ve been smitten with Adobe Lightroom.
Over the weekend I spent a lot of hours working in Aperture, and while I got a lot of work done, I always felt a bit awkward with the whole thing. Like bringing a kitchen sink to a knife fight.
And so I turned to its closest competitor, Lightroom. And literally in minutes I was sold.
It’s faster, easier and out of my way in just about all respects. The cropping tool alone beats Aperture to a pulp, while laughing manically.
Anyway, hop on over and check out the first batch of photos from our Paris trip, most of which has been through Lightroom.
Rikke and I are off to Paris in a short while. Thank you so much for all your advice on where to go and what to see (and thank you Google Earth for letting us explore Paris well before we even get there).
Our stay there will be rather short, so we’ve decided not make any appointments while we’re there. But, I doubt this will be our last stay in Paris.
We’ve got wireless at the hotel, so depending on how late we get in and how tired we are, maybe I’ll drop some shots from my new camera on flickr.
Yes, new camera. The old trusty Canon Ixus 500 has been left in the drawer, and my brand-spanking-new Sony A100 is joining us in its place. I was planning on buying a Canon EOS 400D, but then the guy in the shop managed to convince me otherwise (the Sony comes with a better stock lense as well as anti-shake for the same price).
So far I’m very impressed, and lovin’ it. It takes some damn nice shots even when its quite dark.
Anyhoo, must be off, take care now.
“Sorry Steve, Here’s Why Apple Stores Won’t Work,” BusinessWeek wrote with great certainty in 2001. “It’s desperation time in Cupertino, Calif.,” opined TheStreet.com. “I give [Apple] two years before they’re turning out the lights on a very painful and expensive mistake,” predicted retail consultant David Goldstein.
Fascinating story about the Apple retail stores, from the ‘Apple is doomed!’ (the way it always starts), through the development cycle of designing the stores, through to how the Apple stores are now America’s best retailer. (via)
“Our stores were conceived and built for this moment in time – to roll out iPhone,” says Jobs, summoning one to the table with a tantalizing I’ve-got-the-future-in-my-pocket twinkle.
I’ve only been to a small store in Santa Monica, and it was quite pleasant. Good thing we don’t have any around Copenhagen, or I’d probably go broke…
DVD regions must die! It is ridiculous! I’m currently stuck, unable to change my Mac mini from region 1 to region 2, despite the fact that I have one of my five tries left. The fact that I even have this problem is idiotic, considering that I bought my DVD’s and I bought my Mac mini.
Neither are stolen or pirated, so why am I being bothered with this crap?
Anyway, does anyone know how I can break the law and put and end to this mockery?
Never before was there as good a reason to pirate movies as the (really really bad) anti-piracy ads I have to sit through when I’ve bought an original DVD.
Amen!
Thanks Alice
PS: Entirely unrelated, but have a listen to Kraftwerk as played by 8-bit controllers.
I saw Borat yesterday, and enjoyed it very much, though I had expected it to be much more ‘make-fists-with-your-toes’-like. This deleted scene is best ever.
It’s Friday again, and the doctor prescribes power-pop/rock!
Lost has endured a rocky road in its third season. The season-three premiere was down 20 percent from season two’s premiere, and Media Life Magazine suggests today that “the most likely reason [for the ratings dip] is that fans are dissatisfied with the drama’s dragging plotlines. Message boards are full of complaints about producers’ failure to tie up almost any of the mysteries on the show, instead adding new ones as well as new characters.” #
It’s funny, because I don’t feel the third season is less interesting because of its lack of answer, but rather because of its lack of truly huge new mysteries! Lost has never given any answers, and I don’t expect it to any time soon either.
What I’ve been missing after the hiatus has been contact with more of the survivors. I can only guess that they are off finishing other commitments and that’s why the show has been deftly avoiding their participation by secluding Jack, Kate and Sawyer for most of the second part of season three.
One thing that does annoy me though, is the lack of confrontations between the survivors and the others. I mean these people have kidnapped children, kept people captive and all kinds of other nonsense. And all the while they are keeping everyone in the dark about what is really going on. Why?
More pertinently, why aren’t the survivors asking these questions?
Anyway, I’m still on Lost (and Heroes and Entourage and a bit of Battlestar, although that is severely slipping in my ratings system).
Yes, fanlings, there is going to be a 2 disc ‘Special Edition’ released this summer. You know why? ‘Cause the 1 disc ‘Normal Edition’ has sold so well — so maybe a little self-back-patting is in order for you guys. Way to keep her in the air. #
All hail Joss.
PS: Maybe this time the cover photo-collage-art won’t be as on-par with the Star Wars DVD photo-collage-art as it was on the initial release… Hmm? :)