Dunno how long the Pop's Day post will be up. Check it out.
Keep on keepin on~
Monday, June 19, 2006
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
free TRUTH screenings at select theaters!
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH is playing for free at seven locations across the country this Friday! Click to jump over my babbling to the listings!
Alas, no Boston area theaters are among the free INCONVENIENT TRUTH screening venues, but who can tell where any "next blog" arrow that lands here was launched from, right? So, if you've arrived at this posting from out-of-state, please do read on and see if you might be able to hit a free show of the TRUTH this Friday!
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The following is copy/pasted from an email from AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH at mySpace.com. That's right, the FBI is unfair for thinking Homer's insane for writing fan mail to DIE HARD (to tell him, in case he wasn't sure, "You rock!" and also to ask if he knows MAD MAX). No, he just should have gone digital instead of analog.Ayep. Movies are just like any other mySpace member. You can email, befriend, leave dumb comments for, invite to party, send dirty pictures to, make a date with, and stalk them. Isn't that just super?
Innit?
Right, well, here's the goods... SEE THIS MOVIE!
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Jun 14, 2006 5:42 PMSubject: Exclusive MySpace Screening
Body: Hey guys,
Did you know the average American generates about 15,000 pounds of carbon dioxide every year?
We feel really strongly about the environment and how the Earth is changing. The movie, An Inconvenient Truth, is one of the most compelling and eye-opening Ive ever seen.
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH offers a passionate and inspirational look at what's happening and how to help save the planet from irrevocable change. We can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue. Rather, it is the biggest moral challenge facing our global civilization.
Global warming is the greatest crisis facing our planet. If we dont act now we could drive one million species to extinction within 25 years. You owe it to the future to see the truth.
I worry about my kids and my kids kids and Im sure you care about the Earth too. So how do you get involved? Its easy the first step is coming out and seeing An Inconvenient Truth.
MySpace has bought out 7 movie theaters so you can COME SEE IT FOR FREE and spread the word! Here are the details:
THIS FRIDAY June 16th, 2006:
Landmark La Jolla Village
Cinemas - La Jolla, CA
7:00 PM
Bijoux Theatre
San Antonio, TX
8:00 PM
Tivoli Manor Square
Kansas City, MO
8:00 PM
Drexal Gateway Theatre
Columbus, OH
8:00 PM
Ballantyne Theatre
Charlotte, NC
8:00 PM
Landmark Guild 45th Theatre
Seattle, WA
7:30 PM
Spectrum 8
Albany, NY
7:00 PM
Arrive Early! Seats are limited and tickets will be on a first-come first-served basis.
You have the power to make a difference.
Hope to see you there
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Keep on keepin on~
freshmaking!
Just watch. =)
Nucleation! Whee! I eagerly await further research in this field. Alternative energy? Whaddyathink?
Thanks to Jessie for the linkage! =)
Keep on keepin on~
Nucleation! Whee! I eagerly await further research in this field. Alternative energy? Whaddyathink?
Thanks to Jessie for the linkage! =)
Keep on keepin on~
Save NPR and PBS (again)
Man, I love these guys! Yip yip yipyip yip I do =)
(Copy/pasted from MoveOn.org)
Hi,
Everyone expected House Republicans to give up efforts to kill NPR and PBS after a massive public outcry stopped them last year. But they've just voted to eliminate funding for NPR and PBSunbelievably, starting with programs like "Sesame Street."
Public broadcasting would lose nearly a quarter of its federal funding this year. Even worse, all funding would be eliminated in two years--threatening one of the last remaining sources of watchdog journalism.
Sign the petition telling Congress to save NPR and PBS again this year:
http://civic.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/
Last year, millions of us took action to save NPR and PBS, and Congress listened. We can do it again if enough of us sign the petition in time.
This would be the most severe cut in the history of public broadcasting. The Boston Globe reports the cuts "could force the elimination of some popular PBS and NPR programs." NPR's president expects rural public radio stations may be forced to shut down.
The House and Senate are deciding if public broadcasting will survive, and they need to hear from viewers like you. Sign the petition at:
http://civic.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/
Thanks!
P.S. Read the Boston Globe story on the threat to NPR and PBS at:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1864
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This message brought to you by the letters "W," "T," and "F..."(Copy/pasted from MoveOn.org)
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Subject: Save NPR and PBS (again)Hi,
Everyone expected House Republicans to give up efforts to kill NPR and PBS after a massive public outcry stopped them last year. But they've just voted to eliminate funding for NPR and PBSunbelievably, starting with programs like "Sesame Street."
Public broadcasting would lose nearly a quarter of its federal funding this year. Even worse, all funding would be eliminated in two years--threatening one of the last remaining sources of watchdog journalism.
Sign the petition telling Congress to save NPR and PBS again this year:
http://civic.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/
Last year, millions of us took action to save NPR and PBS, and Congress listened. We can do it again if enough of us sign the petition in time.
This would be the most severe cut in the history of public broadcasting. The Boston Globe reports the cuts "could force the elimination of some popular PBS and NPR programs." NPR's president expects rural public radio stations may be forced to shut down.
The House and Senate are deciding if public broadcasting will survive, and they need to hear from viewers like you. Sign the petition at:
http://civic.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/
Thanks!
P.S. Read the Boston Globe story on the threat to NPR and PBS at:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1864
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THANK YOU FOR SUPER-SIZING...?
Coming this fall...
FAST FOOD NATION, a movie that tells a story built around the facts presented in Eric Schlosser's book of the same name, an excellent read (now with a companion book for young readers). I remember enjoying knocking off a chapter or so while putting away a super-size number one a couple years back... I'm perverse like that.
=)
Tracing the birth and growth of the fast food industry really does give you a surprisingly comprehensive cross section of modern American business, politics and regulation, technologies, lives, and culture. A narrative built around this should be pretty interesting, but a documentary would probably be stronger...
Then again, how much cooperation would any documentary film get from any of the parties involved, right?
I really like most of what I've seen by Linklater (SLACKER, DAZED AND CONFUSED, and BEFORE SUNRISE, in spite of ratboy Hawke), so there should be some good crack in here. Guess he's been pretty busy - A SCANNER DARKLY should be out soon. Although I did NOT love WAKING LIFE, I think that the use of animation effects in SCANNER will be more in line w the storytelling, and not so much about pushing or proving a style and technology.
That's how I took most of WAKING LIFE, a choice of topic, or non-topic, that gave the film license to play with some techniques. I might retroactively give it more points if I think of it as proof of concept for SCANNER...
=)
And a bunch of earthlink ads... :P
Y'know, like RADIOLAND MURDERS was for all the STAR WARS prequels, and PLUTO NASH was for some-movie-but-I'm-not-knowing-which... Cuz I don't know how else to justify that one.
... Which I saw in the theater...
Keep on McKeepin on~
FAST FOOD NATION, a movie that tells a story built around the facts presented in Eric Schlosser's book of the same name, an excellent read (now with a companion book for young readers). I remember enjoying knocking off a chapter or so while putting away a super-size number one a couple years back... I'm perverse like that.
=)
Tracing the birth and growth of the fast food industry really does give you a surprisingly comprehensive cross section of modern American business, politics and regulation, technologies, lives, and culture. A narrative built around this should be pretty interesting, but a documentary would probably be stronger...
Then again, how much cooperation would any documentary film get from any of the parties involved, right?
I really like most of what I've seen by Linklater (SLACKER, DAZED AND CONFUSED, and BEFORE SUNRISE, in spite of ratboy Hawke), so there should be some good crack in here. Guess he's been pretty busy - A SCANNER DARKLY should be out soon. Although I did NOT love WAKING LIFE, I think that the use of animation effects in SCANNER will be more in line w the storytelling, and not so much about pushing or proving a style and technology.
That's how I took most of WAKING LIFE, a choice of topic, or non-topic, that gave the film license to play with some techniques. I might retroactively give it more points if I think of it as proof of concept for SCANNER...
=)
And a bunch of earthlink ads... :P
Y'know, like RADIOLAND MURDERS was for all the STAR WARS prequels, and PLUTO NASH was for some-movie-but-I'm-not-knowing-which... Cuz I don't know how else to justify that one.
... Which I saw in the theater...
Keep on McKeepin on~
Monday, June 12, 2006
umbrella ad/d...
Snapped this on my commute this weekend...
Nothing all that remarkable about the scene, right? Sometimes I'll get the camera out for some bit of oddness on the street, graffiti, fiberglass livestock... But really, there's nothing all that Zazz about this, right? Why shoot it?
Cuz of the only legible thing in the frame (well, besides the giant "7"). "Eddie Bauer" in the top left corner. I was walking along, umbrella'd (I've recently given in to umbrellas after a decade or so boycott), and just alluvasudden noticed how the Bauer tag/strap is always "in frame" and, except for pauses at corners, in motion.
Frickin frackin advertising. Maybe it's ad-serendipitous, sure, umbrellas have been around for, what, at least 20 years, now?
Heh.
And that's definitely a smart place to put your logo. It wraps around the umbrella when it's closed. Looks sharp hanging on the rack in the store, no doubt.
And maybe there's, like, some very sensible factory production line reason that the strap should be sewn on at just that panel of the umbrella skin, too. Sure.
And hey, if it's bothering me, having the "Eddie Bauer" screensaver burned into my retinal CRTs, I should just turn the umbrella, right? Let the poor sap who's following me get branded by the swinging tag. He won't know exactly why his next umbrella, or beach chair, or rain slicker, just HAD to be picked up at the Bauer outlet...
But, hey, look at the umbrella handle! So nicely grooved for the fit of my hand, but only on the one side so that when I'm using the umbrella, and not playing THAT'S INCREDIBLE Yogi-in-a-box, it has to be held so that the tag hangs down in front of me!
Bastards!
It IS a really good umbrella, tho.
=)
Keep on keepin on~
p.s. It's got that vent thing going on, y'know? So that it blocks the rain, but to a degree will let wind pass thru? To a degree - last week it did go all hyperextendy in a severe wind tunnel. But, y'know, nothing snapped and it's still all umbrella! And I got it on sale at the Bauer outlet at downtown crossing.
p.p.s. Media-soaking sponge that I am, I hafta admit that on another level, I thought, hey, this is an ad concept right here, isn't it? Y'know, cosmopolitan city-in-the-rain scene/s, delivery whatnot, pedestrian splash, ticketing cop, framed by the umbrella edge and the tag, with something like - "Eddie Bauer - also for the not-so-great outdoors." Or some blah-de-blah about the (urban) wilderness... or whatever...
Nothing all that remarkable about the scene, right? Sometimes I'll get the camera out for some bit of oddness on the street, graffiti, fiberglass livestock... But really, there's nothing all that Zazz about this, right? Why shoot it?
Cuz of the only legible thing in the frame (well, besides the giant "7"). "Eddie Bauer" in the top left corner. I was walking along, umbrella'd (I've recently given in to umbrellas after a decade or so boycott), and just alluvasudden noticed how the Bauer tag/strap is always "in frame" and, except for pauses at corners, in motion.
Frickin frackin advertising. Maybe it's ad-serendipitous, sure, umbrellas have been around for, what, at least 20 years, now?
Heh.
And that's definitely a smart place to put your logo. It wraps around the umbrella when it's closed. Looks sharp hanging on the rack in the store, no doubt.
And maybe there's, like, some very sensible factory production line reason that the strap should be sewn on at just that panel of the umbrella skin, too. Sure.
And hey, if it's bothering me, having the "Eddie Bauer" screensaver burned into my retinal CRTs, I should just turn the umbrella, right? Let the poor sap who's following me get branded by the swinging tag. He won't know exactly why his next umbrella, or beach chair, or rain slicker, just HAD to be picked up at the Bauer outlet...
But, hey, look at the umbrella handle! So nicely grooved for the fit of my hand, but only on the one side so that when I'm using the umbrella, and not playing THAT'S INCREDIBLE Yogi-in-a-box, it has to be held so that the tag hangs down in front of me!
Bastards!
It IS a really good umbrella, tho.
=)
Keep on keepin on~
p.s. It's got that vent thing going on, y'know? So that it blocks the rain, but to a degree will let wind pass thru? To a degree - last week it did go all hyperextendy in a severe wind tunnel. But, y'know, nothing snapped and it's still all umbrella! And I got it on sale at the Bauer outlet at downtown crossing.
p.p.s. Media-soaking sponge that I am, I hafta admit that on another level, I thought, hey, this is an ad concept right here, isn't it? Y'know, cosmopolitan city-in-the-rain scene/s, delivery whatnot, pedestrian splash, ticketing cop, framed by the umbrella edge and the tag, with something like - "Eddie Bauer - also for the not-so-great outdoors." Or some blah-de-blah about the (urban) wilderness... or whatever...
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