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Discover Opera Live

March 21, 2010 — 2 Comments

If you love opera, you’ll love this… and if you’re new to opera, you should still like it. I mean, look at those luscious drawings. And the drama! Opera is embracing the new technology =D

“Available on demand from March 23rd” :O

Check out the website (speakers on) over at OperaLive.org

I’m just gonna re-post what I wrote on Facebook xD

WOAHHHH, Stella Artois and The Auteurs are letting us watch 6 films for free. What’s better? They are 6 GREAT FILMS. Doesn’t get much better than that.

Polanski’s Repulsion this has been changed for
– Walkabout
– Russian Ark
– Lars Von Trier’s Europa
– Hirokazu Koreeda’s Daremo Shiranai (Nobody Knows)
– Tropical Malady
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Three Times this has been changed for
– Faust

Just head over there, login and watch.

And remember… if you snooze, you lose.
I’d better watch Tropical Malady before it’s gone like Three Times. xD

10s on TheAuteurs

March 6, 2010 — Leave a comment

TheAuteurs currently has over 44pg (with 20 films each?) so I wondered which 10 films were the first to be added to their database… you know, just for trivia purposes xD

  1. La Antena (2007)
  2. Elementary Particles (2006)
  3. It’s Winter (2006) *
  4. Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005) *
  5. Padre Nuestro (Sangre de mi Sangre) (2007)
    * Online Press Screening Available by Invitation Only.
  6. The Perfume of the Lady in Black (2005) *
  7. Riviera (2005) *
  8. Someone Else’s Happiness (2005)
  9. Young Yakuza (2007) *
  10. The Return (2003)

* available to watch on TheAuteurs [Peru Region]

Then I also decided to check the 10 Most Popular films xD

  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  2. The Godfather (1972)
  3. Citizen Kane (1941)
  4. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  5. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  6. Taxi Driver (1976)
  7. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  8. Seven Samurai (1954)
  9. The Shining (1980)
  10. The Godfather II (1974)

Interesting to see 4 films from the 70s, 2 from the 60s… followed by one of the 50s, 40s, 80s and 90s. Then, it’s also 4 films by Stanley Kubrick, 2 by Francis Ford Coppola, and the films by Orson Welles, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and Akira Kurosawa.

Every other time, TheAuteurs.com shows some of their films for free. You only need an account there to watch the films, and you can even login with your Facebook account.

Since I joined, these films were added and restored:

since then, free movies have come and gone…
some are still free, but some others now require paying~

subtitled in English when not in English.

so watch while it’s still available! happy viewing!

F*cking Windows

February 27, 2010 — Leave a comment

Do it yourself.

What’s Up Vevo?

February 8, 2010 — Leave a comment

First, WTF is Vevo, right?

Unless you’ve been looking for a music video by an artist sign by one of the few record companies that have signed deals with Vevo, chances are you haven’t even seen the Vevo logo.

Vevo started out with a celebrity packed opening, yet bumpy. Some of the musicians that day were Lady Gaga, Rhianna, Mariah, Taylor Swift, and even Justin Timberlake… but nobody cares if your platform is buggy. Users complained of slow “buffering” times, wondering why it was buffering instead of streaming. International users were shown a big splash saying they couldn’t use Vevo because it was only for US residents, however, some US users were also given the big splash for no apparent reason.

In short, very few people like Vevo for one reason or the other.

Some can’t use it, some others hate the waiting, others hate the buggy player, others hate the loading time, others (those who get to use it) hate the music collection… you know, since there are no indie labels.

Then, YouTube began using specific Vevo links, which seems to work for non-US users. However, loading times are still an issue. Add to that that it seems to be very random when it decides to not let non-US users watch videos. For example, I can watch some videos on my WinXP computer, but I can’t wtch them on the Vista I’ve got at home. Both are same location, and same internet connection. What gives?

Vevo: What’s the Deal
5 Tips to Make Vevo Better

Add to that International viewing.

OMG, I Need a Website!

January 22, 2010 — Leave a comment

A website about 101 Websites~~~ The information you need to know about how to get your website done. Of course, they won’t tell you how to apply things to build your website, but they will tell you who to get to do what on your website~

More info from the barbarian group blog, or visit Internet Online Website!

Yu Aoi is featured on CMs for U-Can (ユーキャン) a company dealing with distance learning courses and communication, among other stuff. One of the promotional materials is an almost-12-minute short film titled Sute Neko OL, or Stray Cat Office Lady, in which Yu plays Mayumi Yamamoto (?) an office lady who finds a stray cat…

some captures after the break~

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Two months worth of films to close the year,
let’s hope 2010 brings loads of good ones…

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Mininova is Gone?

December 28, 2009 — 1 Comment

When did that happened?

Well, at least you can still upload your OWN original content to share, if you want. I wish more singers, groups, musicians, filmmakers would use the platform of torrents to distribute their work. After all, all you need is a private tracker to allow a few people… in case you want to charge some for it.