Monthly Archives: January 2013

Veteran film director Jim Sheridan has described a lot of Hollywood’s output as “crap”.
Sheridan appeared yesterday at the launch in Dublin of Digital Biscuit, an initiative by the Screen Directors’ Guild of Ireland (SDGI) which will showcase the latest movie technology at the Science Gallery later this month.
The irony of turning up at an event which celebrates technological advances in film only to decry how such advances have ruined the process of story telling was not lost on Sheridan.
The director, whose films include My Left Foot, In America and In the Name of the Father said special effects were becoming the be all and end all of so many Hollywood films.
“The popcorn movies, I don’t just get them a lot of the time. Is there a story here? Maybe I’m an auld fellow,” he said.

Sheridan Bemoans State Of Hollywood Film-Making (Ronan McGreevy, Irish Times)

Meanwhile…

Austin O’Broin writes:

I see Jim Sheridan says most of Hollywood output is crap and he would like to produce his daughter’s output.
I Went to see Dollhouse (2012), a movie by his daughter Kirsten Sheridan (above) recently. It appeared to be filmed in an expensively designed and executed house by the sea. I am pretty sure it’s the same house the da Jim owns in exclusive Coliemore, Dalkey.
Dollhouse IMO is a dislikeable collection of characters, revelling in anti-social behaviour passed off as commentary, and a disjointed storyline. In other words: crap. The Irish Film Board forked over 365K of our money to her to make it..  Hollywood of course, can only dream of the kind of support the IFB would offer.

First catch your pot.

Kodachrome slides taken by cultural anthropologist Robert Creswell.

Creswell conducted a major study of the inhabitants of Kinvara, Co Galway in the mid-1950s,

He discovered they enjoyed bacon..

Cresswell died in 2010 and donated his archive of black and white photographs, colour slides, 16mm film footage, documents and notes etc. to the nation. He also insisted the hoard remain copyright free. Bit of a dude to be fair.

Robert Creswell Gallery at Kinvara.com

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

The Superman logo from 1938 to 2013 by Maurice Mitchell. The small print below the title reads:

Jerry Siegel and I came up with the ‘S’ insignia — we discussed it in detail. We said, ‘Let’s put something on the front of the costume.’ From the beginning we wanted to somehow use the first letter of the character’s name. We thought ‘S’ was perfect. After we came up with it, we kiddingly said, ‘Well, it’s the first letter of Siegel and Shuster.’ Initially I made it like a shield, a fancy little triangle with curves at the top. I had a heraldic crest in the back of my mind. Progressively, as the strip evolved, the emblem became larger and larger.” – Joe Shuster [co-creator of Superman with Jerry Siegel]

The Batman logo from 1940 to 2012 by Scottish artist Cathryn Lavery.

22words/biotv

A combination lock built into a folding saddle designed by Lee Sang Hwa, Kim Jin Ho and Yeo Min Gu who won a Red Dot Design Award for the concept in 2012.

No need for any other locking mechanism. Literally unstealable. Nope, can’t see any way to pinch this bike at all. All other locking mechanisms are now redun…Dear Broadsheet, I know you don’t normally do this but….

likecool/yanko