March 2009
February 2009
“Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and...”
– From this article Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers
Nola.com describes Snooks Eaglin's funeral →
Why doesn’t everyone do funerals like New Orleans?
WatchColbert on Jindal and twitter
End of theaters?
I recently attended a meeting in Hollywood about Image Quality in films that I reported on for fxguide . In the session the moderator said “image quality does matter if the theater experience is to survive”.
Well, I had not thought of that possibility… a few questions for you:
1) Did you grow up getting a daily newspaper? Do you get one now? 2) Do you shoot any film for still...
WatchAnother literal video! Enjoy Billy Idol’s White Wedding.
Water, the next problem →
Great Photos →
Click the Walkabout link for a gallery from a photographer who walked over four days across Los Angeles pushing a large strobe light.
WatchDaily Show looks at media giving time to people like Pastor Manning.
WatchRachel Maddow on the jaw dropping Republican response to Obama’s speech last night.
Shifting focus
After Kellogg’s handling of the Michael Phelps incident they dropped from #9 to #83 on a Company Reputation that tracks 5600 companies. Article and chart here.
Meanwhile there is a thought in California to legalize pot to help the budget… read here.
I think it’s all just a national adjustment to what real problems are. Reminds me of the lyric from the Catie Curtis song...
WatchDaily Show: Clusterf#@k to the Poor House - GOP Govs at Odds. Jon puts the refusal of stimulus money in perspective.
Stu at ProLost with excellent post on Slumdog... →
Nice guide to DSLR sensor cleaning →
Energy Grid info →
I was always curious what the plans were for improving the energy grid and this article has maps.
Interactive map of % of smokers by state →
The Oscar Graphics →
WatchAn old friend, Ed Ulbrich from Digital Domain giving a TED talk on the Visual Effects of Benjamin Button.
WatchForgot to post this the other day - the last couple weeks of Conan O’Brien have been amazing but I had never seen this clip of him drinking and shooting with Hunter S. Thompson.
The Big Picture - At Work →
Amazing collection of photos of people at work
RIP Snooks Eaglin
Offbeat Magazine is reporting that musician Snooks Eaglin has died from cardiac arrest. He was 72, and had also suffered from cancer and the effects of hypertension. We had the good fortune to see Snooks many times at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and at Rock n’ Bowl.
Do yourself a favor today and visit the iTunes store or Amazon and check out some Snooks.
Yes, Virginia, there is a magenta →
Ars Technica looks into the wave of internet posts declaring magenta is not a color.
Actions have consequences →
Drunk, get hit by a train? In NY courts the consequences are 2.3 million dollars.
The Guantánamo Testimonials Project →
The goals of this project are to gather testimonies of prisoner abuse in Guantánamo, to organize them in meaningful ways, to make them widely available online, and to preserve them there in perpetuity.
Learned of this on the always fantastic Rachel Maddow MSNBC show tonight when she interviewed a Marine who was a guard at Gitmo who testified as part of this project.
“We have now in Baseball the art of the incremental confession”
– Richard Justice from Houston Chronicle on Countdown with Keith Olberman about the bizarre A-Rod press conference today.
Actually I believe it is a considered plan by publicists… we are seeing the same tactic in Congress with Roland Burris.
WatchGreat clip from Hardball last night with a discussion of the stimulus bill. It gets really good at 8 minutes in when the Republican guest refuses to answer Chris Matthew’s question “Would we be better off with 8 more years of the policies of the Bush administration?”.
Thomas Friedman gets a ride in an electric car in... →
WatchTwo fxphd post grads made the drive from Columbus, Ohio to Chicago for a meetup… on the way they made a clay animation. The story is at a site they setup called challengejar.com.
“No, I don’t know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor...”
– George H.W. Bush in 1987… found in this Daily Kos article on religion and politics.
More Young Frankenstein trivia
Exploring the cast of Young Frankenstein I discovered that Marty Feldman had a TV variety show in 1971 called ”The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine”. Among the credits for that show are Barry Levinson and Larry Gelbart. Opening and Closing titles were animated by Terry Gilliam (Monty Python)
Walk this way - who knew?
We were watching Young Frankenstein today and ended up looking at IMDB for trivia… which led us to this on wikipedia:
While Aerosmith was working on Toys in the Attic they decided to take a break and see Young Frankenstein, where the “Walk This Way” gag provided the basis for the lyrics.
Change Happens →
