Hello readers, happy Monday! Whew, what a weekend. The weather's gorgeous here in the upper Midwest (albeit in the cool side, I mean mid 60s for high in August!!) so I've been outside most of the time, even spending time of the MN State Fair all Saturday, though I'm no fair-goer by a long shot! …
Month: August 2009
Art&Copy Documentary – Creativity can solve anything
Hate advertising? Make better ads. – that's director Doug Pray's statement on its official site. As an interface designer who once yearned to be in advertising, this is absolutely fascinating. Lee Clow, George Lois, Hal Riney, these are advertising rock-stars whose career everybody in my mass comm class drool over. It's been said that Lois …
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Dr Horrible Sing A Long – Funny stuff from Joss Whedon
TGIF, peeps! Hubby found this on Hulu the other day and we laughed our heads off watching this. I can't believe I've never heard of this before. I had to google it to find out what this is all about, and here's what I found from their official fan site: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is …
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The show I’ll be watching this Fall: THREE RIVERS
I haven't been a TV watcher much, if at all, lately. I can count with my hands how many times per month I turn it on to watch a scheduled program. When I do, it's either to watch the news, weather, or whatever happens to be on when I get on my elliptical machine. Somehow …
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What A-list Actors Can Learn from Sharlto Copley
District 9 is one of those powerful movies that stays with me long after I saw it (check out my review of the movie). For the most part, it's Copley's performance that makes the film work for me. Sure, the documentary style technique and all that technical stuff blew me away at first, but once …
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Daniel Day Lewis’ new musical NINE
Nine seems to be the lucky number in Hollywood this year. There's that recent sci-fi indie-blockbuster set in South Africa, the animated feature film voiced by Elijah Wood and Jennifer Connelly set in post-apocalyptic world, and just in time for Thanksgiving, there's NINE the musical! The description on Apple trailers' page says: NINE is a …
This Just In: INCEPTION teaser trailer
Goodness, I'm getting buzz-overload here with all these sci-fi stuff... but hey I'm not complaining =) First there's District 9, then Avatar, and now, all the mystery surrounding Christopher Nolan's Inception just got a potent boost thanks to the awesome teaser trailer that's just released about an hour ago. The bootleg got leaked over the …