The success of the heroine Lisbeth Salander suggests a hunger in audiences for an action picture hero who is not a white 35ish male with stubble on his chin. Such characters are often effective, but they sometimes seem on loan from other films. There are few characters anywhere like Salander, played here by Rooney Mara and by Noomi Rapace in the original 2009 Swedish picture. Thin, stark, haunted, with a look that crosses goth with S&M, she is fearsomely intelligent and emotionally stranded.Continue Reading on RogerEbert.com
Friday, March 30, 2012
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
War Horse
The closing shots of Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" will stir emotions in every serious movie lover. The sky is painted with a deeply red-orange sunset. A lone rider is seen far away on the horizon. The rider approaches and dismounts. He embraces a woman and a man. They all embrace the horse's head. Music swells. This footage, with the rich colors and dramatic framing on what is either a soundstage or intended to look like one, could come directly from a John Ford Western.Continue Reading on RogerEbert.com
Paper: New iPad app that draws on simplicity
Paper is a beautiful new drawing and cataloging app for “free” that features a minimalist UI. With that said, the business model might not be to everyone’s liking. In app purchases: $2 for each new brush, which seems somewhat steep at first blush. However, this is such a well done app that it might just take off.Continue Reading on 9to5Mac.com
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Smashing Pumpkins Pick EMI Label Services for Launch of New Album; 'Oceania' to Hit Stores June 19th, 2012
EMI Label Services/Caroline Distribution has announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement withMartha’s Music to release the highly anticipated album from THE SMASHING PUMPKINS entitled OCEANIAon June 19th, 2012. The agreement covers the world excluding Canada, Brazil and Australia.
Produced by THE SMASHING PUMPKINS’ frontman Billy Corgan, OCEANIA is an intense and dynamic offering that will appeal to new and existing fans of THE SMASHING PUMPKINS alike. OCEANIA, the band’s7th studio record, is “an album within an album,” part of their 44-song work-in-progress TEARGARDEN BY KALEIDYSCOPE.Continue Reading on MSOPR.com (Mitch Schneider Organization)
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Great Movies: The First 100
Every other week I visit a film classic from the past and write about it. My "Great Movies" series began in the autumn of 1996 and now reaches a landmark of 100 titles with today's review of Federico Fellini's "8 1/2," which is, appropriately, a film about a film director. I love my job, and this is the part I love the most.Continue Reading on RogerEbert.com
Directors
Orson Welles
Luis Bunuel
John Ford
F.W. Murnau
Buster Keaton
Alfred Hitchcock
Billy Wilder
Akira Kurosawa
Jacques Tati
Movies
Mr. Hulot's Holiday
Metropolis
Children of Heaven
Nosferatu
The Third Man
Ikiru
Written on the Wind
Last Year at Marienbad
2001: A Space Odyssey
Battleship Potemkin
Floating Weeds
The Great Movies
Movie history did not begin in 1967, but my career as a movie critic did.
Since then I've reviewed most of the new movies as they've opened, but there is almost never time to go back and write about the great movies of the past. Three or four times a year, when a classic movie is re-released in a restored version, I'll write something about it (recently I've revisited ``Belle de Jour,'' ``Taxi Driver,'' and ``The Umbrellas of Cherbourg''). But in general I press forward into the future.Continue Reading on RogerEbert.com
Belle de Jour
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061395/
Taxi Driver
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075314/
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058450/
Casablanca
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/
Magnificent Ambersons
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035015/
Mr. Hulot's Holiday
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046487/
Vertigo
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/
8 1/2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/
Floating Weeds
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053390/
The General
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017925/
Citizen Kane
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/
The Third Man
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/
La Dolce Vita
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053779/
Psycho
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054215/
The Godfather
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068646/
Apocalypse Now
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/
Raging Bull
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081398/
E.T
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/
2001: A Space Odyssey
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/
The Music Room
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051792/
Singin' in the Rain
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045152/
Monday, March 26, 2012
In House App Development Essential Videos - In-House Development for iPhone
Web Services
Accessing SOAP
Use third-party libraries
gSOAP
Florida State University
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soap.html
Axis2/C
Apache Software Foundation
http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/
Saving Data
SQLite database files
Documentation
http://www.sqlite.org
Accessing SOAP
Use third-party libraries
gSOAP
Florida State University
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soap.html
Axis2/C
Apache Software Foundation
http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/
Saving Data
SQLite database files
Documentation
http://www.sqlite.org
In House App Development Essential Videos - Getting Started with iPhone Web Applications
Simulating Network Latency
In Terminal...
To reset...
In Terminal...
sudo su
ipfw add pipe 1 src0port http
ipfw pipe 1 config delay 200 bw 700kbit/s
To reset...
ipfw flush
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Brené Brown: Listening to shame
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Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret behind many forms of broken behavior. Brené Brown, whose earlier talk on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores what can happen when people confront their shame head-on. Her own humor, humanity and vulnerability shine through every word.
Clone factory: mini-me dolls
Eerily accurate to the smallest detail, tokyo-based clone factory is now creating mini clone dolls from 3D modelling and printing technology. fully processed in the company's akihabra office, the service is capable of replicating hairstyles, makeup and clothes to fully encapsulateContinue Reading on DesignBoom.com
a special moment such as the customer's wedding day.
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