24 November 2008

Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com

A highly entertaining essay by a really engaging author about the changing landscape of filmmaking.

For directors who speak this new cinematographic language, even the most photo-realistic scenes are tweaked, remade and written over frame by frame. Filmmaking is thus liberated from the stranglehold of photography. Gone is the frustrating method of trying to capture reality with one or two takes of expensive film and then creating your fantasy from whatever you get. Here reality, or fantasy, is built up one pixel at a time as an author would build a novel one word at a time. Photography champions the world as it is, whereas this new screen mode, like writing and painting, is engineered to explore the world as it might be.

Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com

21 November 2008

Sarah Palin and the turkey

Too good to be true...but it IS!!

Focus on the guy in the back...

13 November 2008

SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters

"COLUMBIA, S.C. – A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him 'constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.'

The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.

'Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president,' Newman wrote, referring to Obama by his full name, including his middle name of Hussein."
SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters - Yahoo! News:

Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know

All right! A Mac user. For getting things done.

Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know - Telegraph

The YouTube Contest: Make A 'Good' Video

This is going to be tough...


YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A 'Good' Video

09 November 2008

Shaw's Bridge
Sunday November 9