Why 3D has become a non-value added money grab of the movie-going public who, as far as I can tell, think that adding 3D to anything makes it better... except life I guess.
The following is really just an excuse to check out the fantastic collection of 100 of the worst album covers of all-time at www.coverbrowser.com - I've parsed down my favs here in no specific order. I've tried to (mostly) avoid the countless Metal covers in the list, because they could seriously carry the entire list on their own.
via nfb.ca
Some wild animation from over 30 years ago provided by the greatest Canadian website around: www.nfb.ca
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When you only have two minutes between phone calls or sitcoms, give speed cinema a try. You can watch 2001 by Stanley Kubrick at 1000x the speed in less than 2 minutes. You may have to be fast on the popcorn though.
On the eve of another TwestofTO tweetup, lovehatethings considers social dynamics, networking and addressing the question: Why We Tweetup?
How the litany of a two minute film "previews" are coming close to ruining every film I'm excited about.
Two totally unrelated topics in this lovehate screed... the return of Tiger Woods to the Masters and why I don't care, and how Hollywood took a cheesy 80s movie and potentially made it unwatchable by this lover and hater.
When I hear that people are trying to copyright genetic code (and actually getting consideration), I wonder at how composers can claim intellectual property over music that is the product of an evolution over millennia.
In my weekend-long search for relevance over the mad onslaught on tweets about the Apple iPad, I decided to trek back 8 months and do a little recursive deconstruction on the history of the iPad as seen through Mashable.com. A list of tech blog posts that I believe lends credence to my belief of the continuing Ourobouros of technology "journalism" on the web.
