Posts Tagged ‘art’

A Curious Case (Name That Film Pt 2)

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Name that film:

A white man is born fatherless in the south with birth defects that lead many to think he may never walk nor live a normal life.  His saintly mother believes in his potential anyway. (more…)

Odin’s Frican Balls: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Beowulf

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

The key to Robert Zemeckis’s recent film Beowulf is to understand that it’s an old man’s story. Not so much a story about an old man, as the sort of story an old man would want to tell the youngsters around him. And not a story told by just any old man, but by one with a great sense of humor, a great sense of regret, and a great memory of what it’s like to be young. (more…)

Hornless Unicorn Studios: Movie Ideas of Mine That Won’t Come to Fruition Any Time Soon

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Hornless Unicorn Studios, in coordination with Human Dwarf Productions and Virgin Rum & Coke Entertainment, presents a Wingless Fairy Film. Several, actually. If you read the following and realize you’d like to turn one of these ideas into a living breathing movie, by all means go for it. (more…)

Deprogramming Your VCR: Famous Scient*l*gists and Their Secret Cries for Help

Friday, June 6th, 2008

If you were bound by blackmail to represent an insane cult for the duration of your natural life, but you had regular access to audiences numbering in the millions, you’d sneak out a few hints about your desperate situation, just like these folks. (more…)

University of Nintendo: Video Game Ideas for a Future Educational System

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

A lot of people ask me why I don’t play more video games. (more…)

Le Mime Est Mort. Vive Le Mime!

Monday, April 7th, 2008

If you’d asked me yesterday what I thought of mime, I’d have told you, the art of mime is cliched, creatively bankrupt, and frankly unfathomable, both as a form of entertainment, on the one white-gloved hand, and as a career choice, on the other.    (more…)

Ultimate Video Store Classification System

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Behold, the Ultimate Video Store Classification System (a thousand billion fanana-fana-fo-fillion kudos to anyone who can guess what kind of business I manage): (more…)

Name That Film

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Name That Film:
Overburdened by technology he doesn’t quite understand, Will Smith uses his charm, wits, and determination to save the day against overwhelming odds in a world not his own. (more…)

On Truth, Lying, and a Third Thing Altogether

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.” Gustave Flaubert

Is fiction false? I’ve heard it asked (or asserted) in various forms hundreds of times in my life. But the question’s too simple.

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