Or more specifically, I’m impressed by Vimeo’s HD channel — there is some really standout content there. And it has the budding filmmaker inside of me wanting.
But regardless, this video by Rob Shaw & the Bent Image Lab is superb — it transforms this They Might Be Giants song into something else entirely.
A quick one — with more creamy bokeh. A simple shot made spectacular with great lighting.
Delicious tones (and I bet the cookies are delicious too!). The coffee in a glass cup is a nice touch, too — I have always preferred glass to ceramic.
A Mamiya C3 — a wonderful throw-back to medium-format film days. I truly need to get my hands on an old medium-format film camera of my own.
I am really looking forward to Shutter Island — the next ‘big’ Scorcese film. It promises to be a little different from his previous works as well, which has me more curious than doubtful:
What makes “Shutter Island” feel so peculiar for this director to have made isn’t the troubled protagonist, or the detective-movie plot mechanics. It’s the claustrophobia, the tight, hermetic, locked-down structure that’s so unusual for Mr. Scorsese, whose films are generally a lot more expansive.
The old football helmet, her vintage dress — but the standout element of this shot is her vibrant red hair.
The lens flare on her top, the bokeh in the trees, and the utter surreal-ness of the light streaming from the balcony above: brilliance. She is just lit so well.
Apple had a fascination with touchscreen tablets/PDA’s long before the iPad — except then, the market wasn’t ready for them and technology wasn’t advanced enough to make them practical. Whether the iPad befalls the same fate is yet to be seen, but one thing they did get right was the design. Lovely attention to detail.
Not the first time I’ve linked to Luxirare — and it won’t be the last — but just another great entry. The foie gras is particularly delicious looking.
John McIntyre on how the “five sentence” paragraph structure fails to promote strong writing ability:
The products of this exercise were entirely mechanical and lifeless. Looking at the papers of undergraduates I taught in other classes, I saw little evidence that their schooling in the “Baker essay” had done much to enlarge their powers of argument and organization.
Mike Davidson explains this nicely:
If you want to be influential, lead by doing, not by talking, and certainly not by duping. If what you create is really good, other people will talk about it for you.
How telling (and the last line is both hilarious & true):
I’ve been thinking about how to make money from online content since I launched Fray in 1996. Really, I can’t tell you how many nights I’ve sat up, obsessed with it. It’s been my white whale. And here’s what I’ve come up with: a little bit of advertising works, so long as it’s classy, and sell some paper if you can. But any plan that includes walling off your content from the rest of the web is destined to fail, unless it’s porn of some kind (financial data is a kind of porn).
Shannon’s photography is simply inspirational. The tones are one thing, but the old school books & the radiance of her subjects is something else entirely.
Vibrant, simple & oh-so old school. And I still crave a film SLR myself (but not a Canon, of course).
