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  • Florence + the Machine @ VMA 2010

    Considering I didn’t think the Latin Grammy was anything special, I thought I’d give the search for my favorite performance of the Video Music Awards.

    The initial shot works perfect, despite some problems with the camera zooming out. Moreover, the cuts when everyone shows up dancing work to show the whole stage, and closer shots for all the jumping.

    The song is catchy, and the performance is different enough from the rest of the performances of the night to be memorable, and perfect to stand out. I hope Vimeo doesn’t delete it because it’s the only good version I’ve found.

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  • Main Titles that We Love: Desperate Housewives

    Continuing with posts on main titles, this is Desperate Housewives by yu+co

    Check the yu+co link for a better resolution one.

    What’s so cool about this title sequence is that it’s simple. Women from famous paintings as housewives. At the time, it was giddy for anyone taking an art history class. Plus, it captured the essence of the show.

    Frankly, I’ve stopped watching the show… and I think they’ve stopped playing the intro last last season. But it still brings back memories of better Desperate times. The last season I bought on DVD was when they did the 5 year jump. I’m going to pretend the show ended there.

  • The Evolution of the Geek by Flowtown

    I think I’m a cross between the film geek, with music geek, with a design geek flare.

    Check the complete chart over at Flowtown~~~

  • The Story of Pentecost by Dan Stevers

    It’s an After Effects  shadow puppet show!! xD

    Now, I’m not really religious, but I think this type of animation… where they kinda teach you about things – they’re really interesting. It’s sorta on the line of the whole Shakespeare The Animated Tales, or the series for Religions of the World. Kiddos should watch this stuff. Okay, this one’s not as serious… but at least it gives you an idea of what’s Pentecost, right?

    [iframe src=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/15268039?portrait=0&color=ff9933″ width=”560″ height=”315″]

  • Emma Watson by Mario Testino for Vogue UK

    Is this the 2nd or 3rd time Testino has photographed Watson?

    I’m not exactly jumping up and down for Emma Watson film projects, but I am glad she’s grown up to be a well-rounded adult that doesn’t feel the need to rebel against “the man”. Rebel for the sake of rebelling.

    Thank you, Emma, for showing us that there’s child stars like you.

    A lot more photos via Fashiontography.

  • Where You’ve Been, Laura Harris?

    A lot of people were mad at the Dead Like Me straight-to-dvd movie, but to be honest~~~ the film wasn’t that bad, except for maybe replacing Daisy with someone other than Laura Harris.

    There was this quality about Harris interpretation of Daisy Adair that made you just want to hug her… while strangling her. That quality was missing from the film.

    I’m on my Roxy stage, though. I laugh at everything she says.

    Did I tell you I finally got time to watch my Dead Like Me collection? I can finally say my Bryan Fuller collection is complete. I went through the first season over the weekend, and I’m going through the second one today. Makes me miss Vancouver.

    I didn’t know Laura Harris was from Vancouver xD

    My mother knows her as “that girl from 24” xD

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  • Cool Point If You Spotted Tuva Novotny!

    Chances are that if you know who Tuva Novotny is, you weren’t actually interested in watching Eat, Pray, Love… unless you’re a really hardcore Novotny fan. Or that if you’ve willingly gone to the theater to watch it, that you have no idea who Novotny is.

    So cool points for you if you watched Eat, Pray, Love and you said:
    “Hey, that’s Tuva Novotny! That’s Smala Susie, or Annelie~” xD

    And she was speaking some Italian, which I found kinda hilarious.

    But then again, I’m just really good with faces.

    Some picspam!

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  • Japanese Cinema Blogathon 2010 – Day4

    It was really difficult to come up with a post for Day 4 of this Blogathon for Wildgrounds, but I’m cheating anyway~ and you’ll see why. But first, let’s take a look at the highlights of Day 3!

    First, let’s go back to Day 2~ I forgot to mention the gallery for Japanese Film Noir, which contains some very beautiful film stills. Then there was this Laputa’s 100 Best World and Japanese Animation Directors by Nishikata Film Review, who have also posted Takashi Yanase’s Top 15 Animated Films today.

    And for this edition of my Japanese film blogathon, I want to ask the visitors and readers of this post…

    Who’s Your Favorite Actress/Actor? Why?

    Enough about me, guys~ You already know I like Yu Aoi, Ayumi Ito, Ryo Kase, Rinko Kikuchi, Tadanobu Asano… Shinobu Terajima, etc~ etc. You know I like idols, and stuff like that~

    I just want to know who you watch Japanese films for… and if you don’t like any of the “new” actors, who’s your favorite actor/actress of the old times.

    Discuss below! You can talk amongst yourselves too~

  • Japanese Cinema Blogathon 2010 – Day3

    It’s day 3 of the Wildgrounds Japanese Film Blogathon! And seriously, I am running out of okay topics to write about, but some of you guys are writing more than one post a day! You guys are non-stop!

    First, with the sponsoring~~~

    Toma-Uno joined the blogathon with their post on Satoshi Kon — sorry, only in Spanish atm. And since we’re discussing Satoshi Kon, the guys at V Cinema contributed with their podcast on him, plus! A look at Twenty-Four Eyes (aka. Nijuushi no Hitomi), as well as various film reviews… including One Million Yen Girl!

    Which reminds me… I haven’t done any Yu Aoi Film Discussion posts in a very long while — just checked, it’s been nearly a year, and it’s been because I wanted to hold-off until I had seen any of her films released this year… or any non-sub film with new subtitles…

    But moving on, today’s topic is~~~

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  • Japanese Cinema Blogathon 2010 – Day2

    Second day of Wildground’s Japanese Cinema blogathon!

    First of all, let’s do a recap of the first day~~~ My favorite piece comes from Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow Blog and their post on the first movie theater in Japan. A very interesting read about the ole times xD Plus, Nihon Cine Art has a poll running asking What’s your Favorite Japanese Cinema Era, and What’s your Favorite Japanese Cinema Genre~~~

    And a bit on art director/production designer Yoshiro Muraki~ by Nishikata Film Reviews~

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