Stars, Relatives Honor Special-Effects Wiz Winston LOS ANGELES (AP) — Friends, relatives and show-business colleagues gathered Sunday to remember Oscar-winning special-effects maestro Stan Winston, the man responsible for bringing the dinosaurs of "Jurassic Park" and other iconic movie creatures...
So I learned from my mistake from last week and am posting an entry now, to avoid having to wait until Monday or Tuesday and potentially having another extremely long entry. Not too much has happened, but there’s nothing wrong with a short post, I guess. Also, since I guess this is the...
Travel: Palm Springs, CA Bands: Of Montreal, Gillian Welch, Tilly and the Wall, Silversun Pickups, Arctic Monkeys, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Jarvis Cocker, Sonic Youth, Bjork, Regina Spektor, Hot Chip, New Pornographers, Peter Bjorn and John, MSTRKRFT, Andrew Bird, The Decembrists, Kings of Leon,...
Predicting the VFX Oscar: Reviews Rule Over Box Office (xrant.blogspot.com) Basically, we're trying to determine which is the best predictor of the winner of the Academy Award for visual effects - the most critically acclaimed nominee, or the nominee with the highest box office earnings? How can we...
CGI Lacks Spirit, So "Spirit" Will Lack CGI (nerve.com) In a recent blog entry at the website for his upcoming adaptation of the beloved Will Eisner superhero comic The Spirit, director Frank Miller -- himself a much-respected comic book artist whose reputation has been decidedly mixed with the...
Digial Joe #43 ***** It´s finally here. Christmas for cine-philes. Summer movie season. This annual plethora of big bang special effects, sequels, and teen-pleasing action films rakes in untold billions of dollars after initial ticket sales, tie-ins, DVD´s, toys, games, shirts, collectibles and...
Keeping in mind that two years is a lifetime in politics, and that nothing can be predicted with certainty, we can at this point say that John McCain will most likely be the Republican nominee for president in 2008. The thought of facing him in a general election causes many Democrats to soil...
Finished The Ghost Orchid by Carol Goodman. Really, really good. I think it might be one of my favorites of hers, although it's a little implausible. (Group of writers at a retreat experience strange goings-on connected to a couple of seances held there decades before.) One of the other things I did...
What exactly does the phrase “when hell freezes over” mean? To some it is the narcissistic way of putting the biblical term “hell”, which Webster defines as a place or state of misery, torment, or wickedness, into an exaggerated but clever expression for a very unlikely event to have a...
Free time. I like that the word we use for independence is one synonymous with "cheap," and possibly even "worthless." Course, I've never been much for being a consumer. I'm also poor, so to me, nothing gets much better than "Free." With few periods of my life not withstanding, I've gone to Lestat's...
by Evan Long e-mail: evanlong ATSYMBOL xmail PERIOD net website: http://www.xmail.net/evanlong/ This is a picture of two dead boys in a high school library. The picture, like all pictures, has a thousand words behind it, many of which have not yet been spoken. There are other pictures related to...
happy astronomical, first day of summer and happy friday readers! we are in the beginning of our summer solstice and i have one lingering question: what ever happened to long john silvers? i mean really do they still exist? fast food seafood? really? thats like saying drive through root canal or get...
I am a creature of habit. Each morning finds me hunched over the same homely but delicious breakfast; each noontime finds me eating a variation on the same formulaic lunch; and each evening brings a cold glass of milk, a couple of graham crackers, and at least a few squares of chocolate. These tidy...
Monday, June 30th After my last post, we had our afternoon class with Takahashi-sensei. The fun thing was that we got to do calligraphy for the second half of the class. We had to pick a word with at least one kanji character and draw it, using real calligraphy brushes and ink and everything. I deci...
I've been making delicious Hunanese chopped salted chiles for the last few months. I've apparently been lacto-fermenting and didn't realize! The recipe is in Fuchsia Dunlop's book "Revolutionary Chinese Cooking" if you're interested, although it's not the most complicated recipe--just chiles and...
Dysfunctional Since Before It Was Cool Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Christopher Evan Welch and Kate Jennings Grant in a revival of “The Marriage of Bette and Boo” by Christopher Durang. By ERIK PIEPENBURG Published: July 6, 2008 TO facilitate an Internet search for his work, the playwright...
Nineteenth Post Its over,lets go over the 4 year, shall we. :] Freshman year: Oh I was I scared to walk into highschool. aha. I was there right on time when they cut the ribbon to open up this brand new school. I had my lil standard attire on wit the braids ahah. Hot mess. But I was excited too. I...
First-person pov. The farthest back I can remember is being on this island thing where Mike had to play a survival game. There's a bunch of people on this undeveloped island about the size of a kid's soccer field. Hardly enough room for the group there. I don't know what's going on until this...
Chase sometimes tells me he'd like to travel. "I want to get away," he'd say. He tells me that when he walks over bridges he contemplates throwing himself into the lake, or pummeling onto the cars below. Not to die! Not in the very least. Chase has never been selfish enough to take his own life....
What is the most creative gift you have ever given or received? Submitted by Nacwolin. I think the most creative gift I ever received was from one of my boyfriends. He was friends with Kurt Cobain, and he decided to give me something of Kurt's, since I was/am a big Nirvana fan. He got Kurt's...
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