Rejoice, for the Kewpie has been born unto the commercial artist.
Kewpie Savior Angst
Eye popper
Madonna and kewpie, circa 1930s.
Three
Feets!
Wet Lens
Old camera? A dunk might make it new again.
That's the ticket
Today I received word that all my active writers over at SIFFBlog will be granted press passes for the festival. I’m kind of in shock.
I do not have time to use a pass, so I did not apply – I suppose now it’s incumbent upon me to figure out what events I am to attend. I need to get in touch with a couple of folks who haven’t been writing for the blog but should be, too.
Finding Lost
cityofsound: Why Lost is genuinely new media [via thingsmagazine.net]
Far out. The author notes that there is a book for sale on Amazon seen on the show as a manuscript being read by Hurley, and cites the author bio from the online bookseller’s listing:
“About the Author: Bad Twin is the highly-anticipated new novel by acclaimed mystery writer Gary Troup. Bad Twin was delivered to Hyperion just days before Troup boarded Oceanic Flight 815, which was lost in flight from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles in September 2004. He remains missing and is presumed dead.”
Lostpedia, a wikipedia for the show.
Buck-Ninety-nine
FREE*PASS: All the copyright rubbish you can take for $99 a year, or $1.99 per flick. Despite my distinct perception that this is cinematic shovelware, I have not taken the time to see if all the UK Hitchcock they have is actually from archive.org or if it’s sublicensed from commercial distribution. I will note that they have a ton of black-and-white horror (lotsa Karloff) and some really crazy stuff. such as Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. But really, $1.99? That seems like it beats BitTorrent considered simply in terms of time for a lot of this stuff.
Another thought – the stuff they have available is distinctly reminiscent of the late-night local-horror-host material that was once prevalent in this great nation, and has succumbed to the wash of money that erodes local flavor with such vigor. I wonder, are there distribution restrictions on the content? Could I create a video podcast around, say, Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth, peppering the film with shots of me in an ill-fitting bald-head wig, cape, and round-lensed black glasses, telling stupid jokes and pretending to drink from beakers of dry ice?
D70 on stage
Hopefully, this will implement the new posting template, although yesterday’s post had some sort of line break bug that this implementation may not redress.
I suppose the next thing is to find the equivalent of post-by-mail with Flickr for audio and movies off this device, eh?
V
The Greatest Bus Driver in the World has a heartfelt rant inspired by the Alan Moore disowned V is for Vendetta.
Yow!
This can’t last, but: LOTSA GOODIES. Silents, TV shows, copyright violation galore. The stuff I want is outta (c) anyhoo, but, dig.