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Awesome article about the Fold-In art of Al Jaffee with a non-cover-destructive Flash-Based virtual fold-in gallery!! The best part about a Mad Magazine was guessing what the fold-in would reveal…
Monthly Archive for March, 2008
After playing with WordPress 2.5 for a bit, I am beginning to appreciate that the heralded increased awesomeness is, in fact, present and better than suggested. In particular, the dashboard is actually useful for the first time ever.
That being said, now that it is useful, perhaps an officially supported option or userscript would be useful to utilize the full width of a widescreen monitor.
Now just to figure out a quick way to determine which are phantom tags and then delete them…
(0)This evening, I upgraded to WordPress 2.5, which does seem far zippier than the prior versions. That being said, I now have 454 tags, where I had 150ish before…
Some of them are somewhat odd and long: “anti-competitive business practices”. This tag is now at least accurate for two posts though…
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Expensive Item Boxes and Thieving…, originally uploaded by pressuretobear.
My father’s world view regarding theft and danger has primed me to look at my surroundings in a different way than most. For example, if I see an empty box for a high value item, I think about how thieves are patrolling the street looking for signs of things to steal.
When I saw this iMac box, I was not as worried as usual for three reasons:
1) It is not visible from the street
2) Thieves would assume the box is from the house in the front of my apartment
3) It is a box for a goddamned iMac for christ’s sake! Who would want that item?
I will still compulsively cut up the box when I return home so that no passerbys view it…
For some reason, my micro-blog isn’t working this evening, so I will post this in the main page…
Two diametrically opposed films in the same post. This week, I rented two films: Paris Je t’aime and Eastern Promises on DVD.
Paris Je t’aime was a collection of short films dealing with love and/in Paris. Some were excellent (in particular the segment Place des fêtes about a Parking attendant stabbed who had fallen in love with the paramedic who administered to him as he died and Alfonso Cuaron’s single-shot segment that insinuated a daughter’s difficult relationship that was revealed to be a new child instead) most were middle of the road. I would give the whole a 75 (+/-3), but a few deserved 90+ (like most short film compilations, the quality differs radically between segments).
I was underwhelmed by a History of Violence, Mortensen and Cronenberg’s last collaboration, but was pleasantly surprised by the understated, subtle quality and lack of pretension that permeated Eastern Promises. Mortensen’s character’s background and aspirations are revealed slowly throughout the film, and the end does not definitively force the viewer toward a judgment on his or other characters, leaving entire events and storylines to speculation and thought. An excellent flick. I would give it an 85 (+/- 2).
