/ apr 2010

1. 04.03.2010 | 3:23 PM UTC

   Tiltshift Timelapse: Sam O’Hare’s “The Sandpit” I’m a big fan of tilt-shift photography and marginally so of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi. Sam O’Hare has quite artfully married the two in his short film The Sandpit: 35,000 stil...

/ mar 2010

1. 03.23.2010 | 8:23 UTC

   Weather Report: House of Sand + Fog Canon G11 | ISO 200 3.2 secs @ 6mm f 1.8 | © maunet A candy-colored clown they call the sandman finally tiptoed through my bedroom on this gloomy night. Thankfully, Frank Booth and his crew did not m...

2. 03.08.2010 | 8:23 PM UTC

   And the Winners Are: Surprise! So at least this year’s Oscars were not quite as predictable as they can be. Many of the choices defied cynical attitudes towards the Academy. Which is not to say that all their choices this yea...

3. 03.07.2010 | 7:23 PM UTC

   Pros & Cons: Countdown to Oscar There are so many reasons to hate the Oscars. It’s prom night for the celebrity set. It’s tediously long. It’s indulgent acceptance speeches. It’s lame hosts reaching for laugh...

4. 03.06.2010 | 7:23 PM UTC

   New York Times: Best Performances
   (and scariest hair) of the Decade Besides Sandra Bullock’s startling hair do, there’s more than a few good reasons to check out this tasteful little clip–celebrities are asked their pick for Best Performance of the Deca...

/ feb 2010

1. 02.24.2010 | 4:23 UTC

   The Kitchen Sink:
   Your Creativity Down the Drain Those in creative fields still beholden to client demands (record labels, global brands, movie studios, corporate retailers, the list goes on…) are well familiar with the mercenary principle: yo...

2. 02.23.2010 | 4:23 PM UTC

   Artful CGI. Avatar Can Suck It. This is not narrative filmmaking, simply some stunning architectural sequences created entirely with CGI. Sweet use of rack-focus and the texture work is amazing. Avatar can suck it. Great stuff at t...

/ dec 2009

1. 12.19.2009 | 4:23 UTC

   Best of the Decade: Films I can’t pretend that this is some erudite, New Yorker-style list of the decade’s very best films. Far from it. This is simply a list of the movies I most enjoyed this past decade. Some tr...

2. 12.19.2009 | 4:23 AM UTC

   Penned In, Pent Up + Put-Out:
   Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men At 83 years of age, the infallible Sidney Lumet wielded the newest HD technology to make 2007′s Before the Devil Knows Your Dead, a disturbing hell-ride that keeps furious pace next to other dar...

3. 12.01.2009 | 4:23 AM UTC

   Clever Villain, Handsome Devil “Y’all take a listen, you’ll hear a Deep Sound comin’ down from Bobby Peru.” An unforgettable bit of obliquely vulgar dialogue by Willem Dafoe in Wild at Heart. What cinephile among ...