Oct 31 2009
What is this?
I bought this at the farmers market today. It’s edible. Anyone want to take a guess at what it is?
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Archive for October, 2009
Oct 28 2009
“Pontypool” Creeped Me Out
My #1 recommendation for a Halloween rental this year is Pontypool, directed by Bruce McDonald. If engaging the audience and provoking an emotional response is a measure of success for a movie, then Pontypool gets full marks from me. Seeing it in a theatre 6 months ago, I remember sitting up in my seat [...]
Oct 24 2009
Apple Makes Fun of Windows 7
Apple has released a few ads about Microsoft’s Windows 7.
I laughed.
Oct 22 2009
Moral Complexity in “Eastern Promises”
David Cronenberg seems to get off on showing close-up shots of gruesome things like people getting their faces blown off with a shot-gun (re: A History of Violence). In a world where beheadings make the news at least two or three times a year, showing two separate scenes of people getting their throats slit [...]
Oct 19 2009
Best Halloween Candy
J-Walk posted a link to the 16 Worst Halloween Candies. I agree, most of the 16 are lame except Hersey’s Mr Goodbar which is a hunk of delicious chocolate. It’s hard to go wrong with pure milk chocolate. My favourites are just about anything from this box:
But in order of preference from the box: Kit [...]
Oct 17 2009
Kurosawa’s “Hidden Fortress”
The Hidden Fortress is a light-hearted adventure comedy about two losers trying to take the money and run, more or less. Add to it a warrior and a princess, some exciting chase scenes and a couple of fights — under the direction Akira Kurosawa, just about every frame of it is a work [...]
Oct 16 2009
Time-lapse Sunflowers
Here’s a time-lapse video of a lilac tree and some sunflowers growing in a corner of my backyard from May 3 to October 16 of this year. I took one photo just about every day. The video is 30 seconds long, but only about 10 seconds are time-lapsed. In that portion of the video, one [...]
Oct 16 2009
Searching For Similar Images
TinEye is a remarkable search engine that finds images based on an image you provide:
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.
I was at [...]
