Video from my Zero-G flight on May 6th: http://youtu.be/9mrQ883FVmM I’m the one with the water bottle and the green octopus, and yes, I do find out, on the second-to-last parabola, why NASA calls their plane “the Vomit Comet.” Hey, I…
Month: May 2006
Post-Film Discussion #1123: The Da Vinci Code
(upon exiting the theatre)CKL: So, what did you think of the movie?D: I have two words for it: National. Treasure.CKL: Hmm. Or perhaps “Inter-National Treasure”!D: Perhaps. I have two more words: Bull. Shit. Referring, of course, to the egregious historical…
On Writing: Film vs. TV
Thinking some more about the Walt Disney Writing Fellowship Program, I browsed over to screenwriter John Rogers’ blog, Kung Fu Monkey, and re-read his post on Writing: Plot and Story. Therein he articulates what I’d been trying to say before,…
Captioned Photos of the Week
Misty wears the cheese. The cheese does not wear her. (What do you mean, you don’t get it?)
The Fellowship of the Zing
Damn you, Jane Espenson. Damn you and your always-entertaining blog, whence I learned of the Walt Disney Writing Fellowship Program. It has stirred my latent dreams of being a professional screenwriter, and will surely consume a good portion of my…
The Weather Man
D’s comment after we watched The Weather Man last night was that it was basically the same story as Our Time is Up, one of the Oscar-nominated shorts from 2005, but not done as well. I mostly agree. The performances…
Run, Tommy, Run!
There’s one shot in Mission: Impossible III that seems to go on forever. It’s Tom Cruise running along a crowded Shanghai street, and the camera tracks him as he runs. And runs. And runs. And runs some more. The shot…
The Constant Gardener
Let’s get the geek joke out of the way: no, it’s not a biography of American recreational mathematician Martin Gardner. (Though that could also be a good movie, especially if it focused on his debunking of psychics and other pseudo-scientific…
Akeelah and the Bee
My friend Bryan, who lives in the Seattle area, took some film school classes from Christopher Mosio, who worked on Akeelah and the Bee and is credited as 2nd unit director of photography and B camera operator. D and I…