Oslo's birthday. And my first video on YouTube. Oh, boy. Oslo turned three on June 11. Please excuse the baby talk. Only true dog lovers can fully understand this linguistic phenomenon.
The Devil Came on Horseback. I just got back from this documentary screening at the Seattle International Film Festival. It’s a film by former Marine Brian Steidle about the genocide in Darfur. More later, but I wanted to post these links now: The documentary. Divest from companies doing business in Darfur.
Three things. I live in this great, wonderful, diverse city and I don’t get out nearly often enough. But lately, I’ve been trying. Here are three great experiences I’ve had in Seattle this past week: 01. Bodies…The Exhibition. If you haven’t seen it yet, run – do not
The Namesake. originally uploaded by Neylano. I went to see The Namesake at the Uptown last weekend with a friend. It was a great movie; good storyline, compelling characters. What I liked most, though, was the cinematography. Like the movie Brokeback Mountain, every frame of this film could have been made into
I <em>love</em> French films! I have a good friend, Julie, who is a member of SIFF. She gets free tickets to early film screenings and I’m lucky enough to be invited quite often to fill her guest seat. Anyway, we saw Avenue Montaigne tonight at the new SIFF theatre at McCaw Hall and
Ooooo, Sundance. On the Sundance Film Festival’s official site, you can download this year’s short film winners. I am so psyched! I’m thinking of choosing one to create a film title for; I need more title sequences in my portfolio…. I think I’m going to go to the
Neue Haas Grotesk. How cool is this? A film about Helvetica; an excerpt from the director’s website: Haas’ director Hoffmann commissioned Miedinger, a former employee and freelance designer, to draw an updated sans-serif typeface to add to their line. The result was called Neue Haas Grotesk, but its name was later changed
Je veux des bon bons!!! Okay, this is great. My first time posting a video; I hope it comes through….
Little Miss Sunshine. originally uploaded by SF buckaroo. We watched this movie on Saturday night. It was great! Immediately on my top movies list. I think it’s going to be a pop culture hit, like Napoleon Dynamite. The screenplay, by Michael Arndt, was brilliant. And the fact that part of it was
American Colonialism. Will and I watched Why We Fight last night, a really interesting documentary about colonialism and the industrialized American military. It made me sick. There were a couple of really creepy right-wing commentators (I can’t remember their names but of course Will was very familiar with them since he’