Frame from Hooper’s Les Misérables
Quite enjoying the short lenses.
May 30, 2012
May 28, 2012
Simple and sophisticated, this is a 1970s reissued wristwatch from Braun. It features a round 38mm black face, a stainless steel case, and 24mm black leather band.
May 25, 2012
“ The startup culture is similar to professional sports in that it requires a fleet of fresh-out-of-college kids to trade their lives and their health for the potential of short-term glory.
May 24, 2012
Andrew Miller:
Every day for 100 days, I will paint one branded object white, removing all visual branding, reducing the object to its purest form. I can purchase each object for less than $10, it can be something I own, something another person gives me, or something I find.
May 23, 2012
Discussing Sci-Fi Storytelling & World Building with Writer Jon Spaihts
Jon Spaihts is the writer of the upcoming Prometheus:
I think no matter how dazzling a cinematic background you lay behind a story, you are only going to invest to the extent that you connect to the characters you are watching. There are three motives of story that matter: having something that you hope for, having something that you fear, or having a burning question that you need answered. Any one of them is sufficient.
If you can have more than one of them running at one time, or all three—you can be afraid of one thing and fearful of another and desperate to understand some mystery that’s been dangled in front of you, then you are maximally engaged, all three motors running.
May 22, 2012
outbreak infographic from the movie Contagion
Jayse Hansen
“ The plethora of online Photoshop tutorials demonstrate its power and its flexibility, but I believe they also demonstrate its poor design. Think about it like this: what if each time you plunked down in front of World of Warcraft, you had to spend an hour trying to remember, wait, how do I play this?
Great design makes learning frictionless.
Great design makes learning frictionless.
Side by Side Official Trailer (2012)
by Company Films
A documentary on the format war -film in one corner and digital in the other- narrated by keanu reeves and directed by chris kenneally. It’s doing the rounds at Tribeca.
“ There’s plenty of reasons to not to like a movie. But if you hate them? Meaning if let them bother you? Then they’ll do nothing but bother you. Who wants to be bothered? There’s so many better things to do with movies. Bad things can be so much more interesting than just bad.
May 21, 2012
Sharon Moody: Something’s Going Down in That Museum Right Now
Sharon Moody paints comic books, the object. Yes you read that right.
via It’s Nice That
Teaser for Skyfall
Roger Deakins as cinematographer.
May 20, 2012
