global warming slideshow

MSN.com puts together some fairly powerful slideshows of images captured from across the globe. I came across "Taking Aim on Global Warming" which especially features images from the largest and most important U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen.

For more images follow this link.

world leaders apologize

I stumbled across this group of GREENPEACE advertisements. They are currently displayed in the Copenhagen airport. A number of world leaders, including Obama, Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, are depicted sending words of remorse eleven years down the road. These advertisements were created in order to enforce world leaders to, "secure a fair, ambitious and binding deal at the Copenhagen Climate Summit."

you're invited..

AN EVENING WITH FRED WISEMAN AND LA DANSE

where: the brattle theatre, cambridge, ma

when: friday, december 11, 7:00pm

who: Fred Wiseman, of course.

how: TICKETS

"Frederick Wiseman is one of the world’s great documentary filmmakers. Eschewing voice-over narration, talking head interviews and onscreen bluster, Wiseman stands back and lets his subjects speak for themselves for as long as it takes to tell their stories. This technique has resulted in some of the most powerful documentaries of the past 50 years. From Titicut Follies to High School to Domestic Violence, Wiseman is well-known for tackling thorny social issues, but he is equally adept at capturing the creative process in films such as La Comédie-Française, Ballet, and his latest work, LA DANSE. The Brattle is excited to be hosting the hometown theatrical premiere of this remarkable new film."

:)

Yes, we're all guilty of using them. When we're happy, sad, mad, bashful, feeling cheeky or when there are no other words that can describe what we're feeling. The smiley face began a revolution of the computer-geek shorthand, emoticons. After stumbling across this image I began wondering--how did this all begin? My research has produced some interesting results..

While the excact date and inventor is still undetermined--there are a couple of guys which claim to be the "first":

1979 Kevin Mackenzie

He used this symbol -) which meant "tounge in cheek", although his technique didn't seem to catch on.

September 19, 1982 Scott E. Fahlman

He supports his claim --->here, a website dedicated to his story. He also includes the exact message from the original bboard thread where he first used the smiley --->here

And thus began the growing phenomenon of the emoticon. They can depict basic emotions, actions, items, descriptions..even celebrities. They vary according to language and culture. Creating images and symbols from typography has taken over the world of new media.

desperate housewives

The Salahis. Their name has been bombarding the cover of the tabloids. Desperate for reality television stardom? Watch out balloon boy, these two have upped the ante. Dubbed the "White House Crashers", Tareq and Michaele Salah were seen rubbing elbows with President Obama, his cabinet, celebs and diplomats during Obama's first White House state dinner. With dreams of making it onto The Real Housewives of D.C., these two certainly got much more than they bargained for..a rather public unravelling of their financial woes, at least 16 different civil suits, federal bankruptcy, claims of impersonating a Red Skins cheerleader... Well, they're certainly in the limelight, but for all the wrong reasons. My goodness, it hardly seems worth it.

'tis the season

Well, it's that time of year again. Now that the turkey has been stuffed, it's time to start thinking about trimming the tree, baking cookies and wrapping gifts. Perhaps one of my favorite traditions that comes around this time of year is the plethora of festive films that frequent the television...

How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Christmas Carol, It's a Wonderful Life, Home Alone, Frosty the Snowman, Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Story, A Charlie Brown Christmas

There are a lot of these films that you will watch over and over again, and it doesn't matter if you have screened them a hundred different times. When you sit down to celebrate the holidays, you find yourself tuning into the same movies every December, without fail.

What will you be watching this year?

march 5, 2010

Mark your calendars. Spectacular art direction (Stefan Dechant--the creative genius behind Where the Wild Things Are), costume and set design, the mad hatter, the cheshire cat, tweedledee and tweedledum..it's all expected. Tim Burton's really done it this time, or so we can only hope. I'm sure many of you have already come across these images.. a little sneak peak into the upcoming film Alice in Wonderland.