Category: Media
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The O Factor
In The O Factor, Field Maloney asks if Owen Wilson was the key to the Wes Anderson phenomenon. The suggestion is that Anderson is too insular about the worlds he creates without Wilson’s writing collaboration to act as a moderating influence. It makes sense. It seemed like Life Aquatic was a major homage to Buckaroo…
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I Don’t Understand
Rubber Johnny — Dude, seriously… W! T! F!!!?
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Exploring Creativity
Common Desk (QuickTime) is a fantastic, and really long examination of creativity. Incorporates ads and various media from various sources. Really great. via
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Writer’s Guide
Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer’s Shortcut to Stronger Writing by C.J. Cherryh: As a general rule … your viewpoint characters should have less, rather than more, description than anyone else: a reader of different skin or hair color ought to be able to sink into this persona without being continually jolted by contrary information.…
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Holy Mother of Rush
I cannot even begin to imagine the amount of work that went into this, but Bobby Standridge actually created a CGI version of Neil Peart playing YYZ (Direct link to the 43 MB WMV File). First of all, I’ve always loved Rush, so mad props for having fantastic taste. Second of all, I never knew…
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Crash the Trailer
OK, the movie, The Wedding Crashers, doesn’t look all that interesting to me, but I gotta say that the Crash the Trailer viral ad that they whipped up is Awesome! You upload pictures of yourself or whomever, and they superimpose the pictures onto the faces of the stars of the movie. Very clever, or at…
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How to Photograph Fireworks
I thought I’d posted an article about How to photograph fireworks with a digital camera before. I know I’ve read it before. It turns out that no, I hadn’t posted it, so here you go. Oh, and more links here.
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Ooooh, Shiny!
After seeing a bit of the sparkler fun on Flickr, I’m thinking I need to pick up some sparklers for the fourth. Nice.
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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.
OK, it’s not really The Princess Bride, but The Duel (QuickTime) is an amusing little animation of a couple of swashbucklers having themselves a good old-fashioned sword fight.
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Communication Skills
After seeing Ze give a lesson in communication skills, I’m afraid I may need to go back and reread a few of my e-mails. It may well be that people weren’t saying what I thought they were saying with all those emoticons.