Category: Art

  • Modern Family

    I had seen a couple of commercials promoting Modern Family, which I thought were kind of funny, so I decided to look the series up and give it a try. It was a surprise to learn that each episode only lasts about 20min. (as a 30min. show, just to show you how much commercials American shows have), but those will be the funniest 20 minutes of your day.

    Modern Family just tells the story of that… a modern-day family, starting with Jay (Ed O’Neil) and his second wife Gloria (Colombian actress Sofia Vergara), and her kid… old-soul Manny.

    Then there’s Jay’s eldest daughter Claire (Julie Bowen), her loser husband but “cool dad” Phil (Ty Burrell), their 3 kids… not so bright Haley… not so bright Luke… and the one picking on them for not being bright, Alex.

    And finally, there’s Jay’s younger son Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), his “mother bear” boyfriend Cameron (Eric Stonestreet), and their newly-adopted Vietnamese baby Lily.

    By the first episode, it had me literally laughing at the top of my lungs, which hasn’t happened for a long time. I had so much fun watching it over the weekend, that I’ve already caught up with the 13 first episodes, and I’m waiting for the remaining episodes.

    Stonestreet, playing Mitchell’s boyfriend, is hilarious, even though he seems to be kind of normal compared to the rest of the nearly neurotic characters. He also brings balance to Mitchell’s snobbish butt by teaching him to shop at Costco, and is the pissed off gay clown saving Mitchell’s butt at the gas station. He’s my favorite character.

    So this is one of the new shows you should be watching… you know, instead of like… Ghost Whisperer or some other bad show.

  • The Past Decade According to Kids

    I just ran into an interesting piece where Allison Loui-Garcia asked a bunch of kids about some stuff that may have defined their ten years of life. Some of those questions involve pop culture, news events, baby one more time, napster, dial-up, 9/11 and their fears.

    We usually hate most children on this website, but the answers are interesting and somewhat adorable.

    Also, what kind of mom buys her kid an ipod when he’s 2 years old? Lady, you’re supposed to get noisy headaches when you have children. You’re supposed to play tag and hide & seek with them and all those kids games.

  • Music Video Director: Wayne Isham

    There’s no gain without Wayne, or there’s no pain without Wayne. I know it’s something like that. It’s been years since I first heard Wayne Isham saying that on one of those episodes of MTV’s Making the Video, back when making a video was very important for MTV.

    Wayne Isham was another name that really popped up when I spent all day watching MTV. If I could describe Isham’s music video style with one word, it would be “woosh!” even though that’s not a word. His videos captured a very energetic vibe with fast cuts and, what I call fade-in wooshes — it’s when Isham would be focusing his camera on the singer/group and there would be a fade-in from one shot to the next one that made it seem like pushing in or away from the subject in a very funky way.

    Of course, the best way to understand that woosh concept is to see it in action. For instance, those fast cuts are very prominents on Metallica’s video of I Disappear (from the Mission Impossible II OST) xD (more…)

  • Pushing Daisies Gets the Finger-touch and Comes Back in Comics

    Just in time! I just finished re-watching both seasons of Pushing Daisies xD

    Sci-Fi Wire sat down with Chi McBride (Emerson Cod) to talk about his new show, and they talked about how Bryan Fuller has shown him a couple ideas for the comics.

    The story of the graphic novel makes liberal use of the show’s re-animation concept. “Well, it’s a whole thing about a whole bunch of corpses coming to life,” McBride revealed. “That’s all I know so far, but Bryan was kind enough to share the first few pages. It really looks good.”

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    “It seems a little darker, which is a lot of things that Bryan couldn’t do,” McBride said. “There’s one particular story that I hope he does called ‘The Head.’ I wished he could’ve done it during the series. It was awesome.”

    So obviously, I’ll be reading. And are you reading Buffy Season 8?

  • Silent Cinema Redux

    I just ran into an interesting project from TheAuteurs.

    Taking footage from early cinema and silent films, SILENT CINEMA REDUX invites musicians to create new soundtracks and audio-visual remixes: recorded live and on the fly with minimal post-production work, each group, band or solo artist will perform a 5-20 minute piece with their film projected behind them.

    sorry, couldn’t help myself.

    Anyway, I read some of the people were thinking of working with The Birth of a Nation, I wonder what music they will use for this redux… I’m looking forward to it!

    Anyway, if you are interested in participating, head over here.

  • UPular by Pogo

    If you liked Up… or if you didn’t, this track/MV mixed by YouTube user Pogo is still awesome. Mixed from the chords, bass notes and vocal samples of the film, only for our enjoyment!

    check out Pogo’s Alohomora. Makes me want to pop my Harry Potter DVDs. LOL

  • Glee Japan CM

    GURI~~~~ HAHAHA
    “the biggest hit show in America”
    or something like that, according to my translation. xD

    “kimi niwa uta ga aru” ? xD it will make you sing? xD

    https://youtu.be/K6EYGA9AEeA

  • If Only… Cherry Blossoms

    Now, it’s my turn!

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    thanks to all who have subscribed! xD check back often~~~

    3. Cherry Blossoms

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  • If Only… After Life

    We’re halfway through our lists now… xD

    by Acerk

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    3. After Life

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  • Tetsuya Nakashima’s Kokuhaku Teaser

    Seems like a good Nakashima-san project.
    I’m excited for it xD can’t wait for it…

    And that Masaki Okada, he seems to be everywhere, eh!?
    Check out the trailer via NipponCinema.