Dr. Strangelove… in color?
August 26, 2010 at 1:38 pm Filed in:Film | life No Comments
No, not this one...
Some dude has an posted an archive of ‘high-res’ stills from Kubrick films posted at Stanley Kubrick, deserving of worship, a statement with which I wholeheartedly agree.
While I came across the link to the publicity stills from 2001: A Space Odyssey on boingboing, after looking around, I think the most intriguing of these are these behind-the-scenes shots from Dr. Strangelove… and not just because I have designs on writing a stage musical called FailSafe. The process of seeing the artist at work is fascinating enough (if you’re a Kubrick-o-phile like me and you haven’t seen Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, it’s worth checking out, even if it is narrated by Tom Cruise).
Strange technicolor
But what blows my mind the most? Seeing shots from Dr. Strangelove in color. I’ve become so accustomed to the story being tied to the static monochrome of black-and-white that it’s part of my very being, and the shot in color below of the Russian Ambassador is a blow to my worldview. And it made me wonder – how much of Dr. Strangelove’s fantasticness comes from the fact that it was shot in black+white, and how would it have been different were it shot in color?
San Francisco on high speed
August 26, 2010 at 11:23 am Filed in:life No Comments
Welcome to summertime in the city.
SF Timelapse from 1 on Vimeo.
Views from and of the Downtown Skyline, Corona Heights, Golden Gate Bridge + Dolores Park.
The video’s a little buggy, but once you get it to work, it’s worthwhile – so many stories in every frame.
The geek of soy is moving.
August 18, 2010 at 11:51 pm Filed in:life No Comments
So that I can reclaim this blog for some of my other interests (read: topics other than software development and user experience), be more like my normal irreverent self, and intersperse random facts everywhere, I’m starting to migrate my work-based content to a new blog. I’ll still geek out here, but more likely on language, food, and random youtube videos.
You might also want to check a couple of other blogs I’ve been working on lately:
A Room Full of Idiots – watching the decline of western civilization through the lens of Yahoo Answers
Stuff that tastes like other stuff – on one hand, a journey into the human condition, examining how indulging in stuff that tastes like other stuff is a safe way to conform while perceiving oneself as nonconformist, to experiment within accepted social channels, and to give in to curiosity without the risk of being ostracized. On the other hand, a collection of a bunch of food that makes you go WTF?
Call me.
February 28, 2010 at 9:04 pm Filed in:Music No Comments
I’ve a great adoration for the music of Blondie, and in more than one way, I think that Debbie Harry is a great inspiration… but I often can’t handle some of those high-energy tunes on Monday morning. Personally, I’ve always thought that Call Me would be fantastic downtempo in an abandoned cathedral at 3am.
So to celebrate the release of my first iPhone app (MuniMe, in the app store now :), I decided to take a little bit of my spare time away from coding and play around with music again, so I spent an afternoon a few weeks ago tinkering around with my keyboard and Garage Band, and this is the result.
Call MeThe production value might not be exquisite, but since I’ve been a bit of a purist in the past, I wanted a chance to muck around with different effects and explore beat frequency by overlaying an auto-tuned track with the original (e.g., the last chorus).
And no, this song is not a secret message to anyone. There’s no subtext here. None at all. (You’ll know if this message is directed at you. Don’t call me. Really.)
Random thoughts: evil.
January 22, 2010 at 8:26 am Filed in:life No Comments
What is true evil: evil for the sake of being evil, or evil for the sake of being good?