Bridge Street, Dublin 8, this morning.
Sarah Kav writes:
Like Yoda a damp spot on the ground that looks.
Someday a real rain will come.
Thanks Sarah Kavanagh
Category Archives: Film
A selection of cringetastic cover art for the awful ninjas, nudes ‘n’ aliens oeuvre of Cannon Films (1967 – 1994).
Godawful posters for godawful movies: the art of the Cannon Group (io9)
Jawsus
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This just fin.
The Grand Canal at Portobello, this morning.
Thanks Rebecca McNally
Update:
Ad people.
Harrumph.
Pic by Jack Brady
Thanks Kevin Whitty
Stan The Man
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A very nicely edited tribute to the filmography of Stanley Kubrick set to Beethoven’s Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92: II. Allegretto by Somerset VII. To wit:
“A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”
Stanley Kubrick
Top and bottom comparisons of numerous parallels between the original Indiana Jones trilogy and Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull by video editor Who Is Pablo.
He also does a similar number on the original Star Wars trilogy and its ‘prequels’
Hell’s Club
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A very nifty mashup by Antonio Maria Da Silva that imagines a nightclub peopled by all manner of familiar characters.
Glyph Notes
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Japanese illustrator and manga artist Takumi’s entirely plausible rendering of Mad Max: Fury Road as Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The BB8 robot toy from Sphero.
Move over R2D2. You’ve been outcuted.
Now watch puppies play with it.
On sale today for €135.
MORE: Sphero BB-8 Review: This Is the Coolest Star Wars Toy Ever (Gizmodo)
Daniel Barassi rescores the dancing sequence from Way Out West (1937) with Hairdresser On Fire by Morrissey.
The latest of many variations, all with their own merits, the best of which is the original.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM-9MbJo5Cc
Architect
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An intriguing piece of eye-candy made from photographs and video footage, directed by Kevin McGloughlin of Hinterland Films in Dublin, who sez of it::
Various techniques in time-lapse photography and long exposure photography are incorporated with real time footage. The images were later digitally manipulated and stacked in a 3D environment.