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Upon Getting One's Car Stolen
The second death scene in Jaws is a good example. In the middle of summer beach season Jaws is prowling the coast. Hundreds are on the beach.
Jaws strikes. His attack foams the water around a lone boy. Instantly, every parent on the beach toes the water line and begs for their child to come back to them. One by one they scoop up and hug their ( Read more... ) -
Finding Nemo as a Post-9/11 Film
Finding Nemo (2003) is a post-9/11 film. It could not have been made the way it was in the years before the 9/11 attacks ( Read more... ) -
Web 2.0 Things I Am Sick Of
Or, The Web 2.0 Vanity Fair.
Design
- The logos
- Those lame, overcopied Web 2.0 design tropes: rounded corners, gradients, sans-serif font lowercase logos, the official Web 2.0 color selection scheme, and "lickable" elements
- The high-falutin abstract-to-the-point-of-nonsense design talk about social software
- Design obsession
- Overdesign ( Read more... )
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Massive Attack's Mezzanine is About a One-Night Stand
Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" is a short opera about a one night stand. It stars 3D as the man and Liz Frasier as the woman. Daddy G plays the cynicism, pessimism, and intellect of the man. Sara Jay plays the woman's conscience. Horace Andy plays the chorus/the man next door ( Read more... ) -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Allegory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is Judeo-Christian allegory ( Read more... ) -
Going live
I've decided to use this LJ account as a way of dumping some essays I've been writing for fun. Yes, I write essays for fun. I'm a bit weird that way ( Read more... )