October 2011
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Tumblr Blogs I Really Like
Lots of people ask me what the point is of Tumblr. I kind of like it because it gives me the opportunity to follow some very entertaining and interesting posters, such as:
http://animalstalkinginallcaps.tumblr.com/ An amusing series of photographs of animals with captions. A step up from I Can Haz Cheezburger in that the captions are written in proper - if capitalised - English.
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The Death of Film
Someone somewhere is holding the last celluloid movie camera ever made. It probably isn’t me, as I’ve never made a film on film. Perhaps too late now.
Instead I can whack up the gain on a Sony F3 to 30db for a skeuomorphic film grain effect. Swings and roundabouts.
http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/film-fading-to-black
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FILM: Batman Year One
I wasn’t a big fan of Batman Begins. Not sure why, just didn’t buy into the origin story with all the ninjas, Liam Neeson etc. The Scarecrow was a bit of a crap villain. Casting Tom Wilkinson, a British actor as Carmine Falcone the Italian Mafia boss was also pretty dumb, especially when THIS guy was available.
If you want a good Batman origin story, then Batman: Year One is the...
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The Kraken's Lair Discovered →
I love this story for so many reasons. Most of all, that the ancient Kraken was so bad ass that it used the skeletons of dead ichthyosaurs/shonisaurs to create a giant self portrait of itself.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/10/lair-ancient-kraken-sea-monster-possibly-discovered/
(via @darnjo)
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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be...”
– Steve Jobs
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