If you’ve got a spare $2,900, please consider buying me this:
That would be a handmade, musical drum table. Video at the link too.
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Save the Face or Save the MacBook Air?
March 18, 2008 – 4:40 pm
Intrepid, determined, professional TV reporter Charlie Rose was presented with this moral dilemma.
Click through to see if he thought his face or his MacBook Air was more important, then come back.
The story reminds me of one I heard from a professional wedding videographer I had the pleasure of working alongside for a season. He was shooting a wedding at some exotic locale, running along some sandy shoreline, trying desperately to get from point A to point B before whatever shot he needed could escape. His feet flew out from under him, and, carrying a $20,000 camera (or more), did what was required of his profession: He landed with a thud, and maybe a few cracks, but the camera survived.
Here’s to hoping Apple can get Mr. Rose something for his pain.
Brilliant Oscar Idea
February 6, 2008 – 12:04 am
AMC Theatres is hosting a day-long showing of the five best picture Oscar nominees on the day before the Oscars. If you didn’t know, those films are Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood, Atonement, Juno, and No Country for Old Men. And it’s only $30. And you get a free large popcorn. And free refills.
Although I’ve already seen No Country and will probably see There Will Be Blood this Friday, I was still tempted to try this Oscarthon. Then again, the listed showtime is 12 hrs, 25 mins.
But, I am glad to see theatres doing something a little different (and inexpensive) to keep the masses happy.
There Will Be Hype
January 9, 2008 – 2:52 pm
There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson’s new movie, hasn’t been hyped in the traditional sense; it’s just won or been nominated for a plethora of awards. I plan on seeing it, but the following review makes me even more anxious to view it, especially in light of the movie I took in last night, The Kingdom:
Though not a political film in the traditional sense, Blood nevertheless captures the blood-oil-Iraq-evangelicals-capitalism zeitgeist far better than the countless Lions for Lambs-type films have this year. It got me thinking about the presidential election, and how—like Plainview and his “conversion” to Sunday’s church—so many candidates are pandering to religion not out of spiritual need but material necessity. Like Plainview, it’s not that they necessarily want God on their side; they want God’s people—and the money and support that comes with them. This sort of melding of sacred and secular purposes, however, proves toxic for all involved.
There Will Be Blood is a stunning, thoroughly modern work of art that paints a stark picture of what happens when greedy capitalism and power-mongering is bedfellow with something so contrary as Christianity. As the title forebodes, the results—for all parties involved—will not be pretty.
It's a Huxleyan World
October 10, 2007 – 2:58 pm
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Via Phil Cooke at The Change Revolution:
Media theorist and writer Neil Postman (Amusing Ourselves to Death) has a pretty brilliant comparison of the two visions:
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with feelings instead of facts. As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions. In 1984, Huxley added, that people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. We must face the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.”
Uh.
Yikes.
I’m going to go find a hole and hide there until time travel is invented and I can back a few thousand years when we didn’t have to worry about any of this.
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