December 2009
46 posts
The 10 Best Long Tracking Shots Ever Filmed →
thomaswheatley:
wordstudio:adamngoodshot:
This is a great list of excellent long shots.
love all of these, especially the opening scene from the player, which is an homage to the scene from touch of evil, also on the list. the i am cuba shot is pretty great as well, but not even the best one from that film, as it also features a really great single shot that starts on a hotel roof and...
November 2009
29 posts
edward cullen is an abuser. →
yet so dreamy.
let's spend the night together (1981). →
you should all watch this film some time, and then tell me what you think of mick jagger’s pants.
I love how many people have pointed out that Edward is using the D.E.N.N.I.S....
– Glenn Howerton (via his Twitter.) (via awjeez) (via soupsoup) (via matti-tat-tat)
"From Ms. Palin’s masterwork, we learn that the... →
thomaswheatley:
maura:
Tom Frank on Going Rogue. Also:
The respect she shows history, though, is the kind of respect you show the flag when you soak it in kerosene and touch a match to it. “[W]e tried growing government to save the economy back in the 1930s, and it didn’t work then either,” Ms. Palin writes. It is a modest assertion, though, compared to the astonishing finding Ms. Palin...
twilight: a primer for adults. →
highlights:
Teenage vampires travel from high school to high school pretending to be incestuous siblings, because that is just a smart cover story.
When you transfer to a new school, it will somehow be prom right away.
Although vampires can hit baseballs very, very far, the outfielders must remain at a regulation distance from home plate during every at-bat, and then run fast into the woods to...
please allow me to geek out about this essay on... →
you absolutely have to read this description of... →
to wit:
Shot with grandma’s camcorder on what appears to be a budget of several hundred dollars,Before I Self-Destruct, which 50 also wrote, produced and executive-produced, casts Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson as Clarence, a man once heralded as potentially the greatest basketball player of all time. Then he hurt his knee and was reduced to working at a grocery store to support his mother and younger...
steak house or gay bar? →
so this is a thing now.
wow. this is just stone cold. i think i like it.
claude levi-strauss dies at 100. →
wait, CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS WAS STILL ALIVE?