Avatar 2009 DVDSCR DVDR-P2PLOVERS
I’m about the last person on earth to see Avatar. Never wanted to see it in the theater since I can’t stand the 3D effect. The disorientation, dizziness and uncomfortable feeling I experienced after watching The Final Destination 3D left me with a bad aftertaste. That’s why I didn’t jump on the Avatar bandwagon.
Then this Torrent showed up on my beloved Torrent site TorrentLeech.org. Just look at the quality of those screens straight from VLC. I could not resist. I used my people skillz and a guy down the street whom I’ve never met before downloaded the movie on his computer and I saw it at his place. I can’t remember where he lived because I left in a hurry just as the movie ended and his house burst into flames and exploded.
What about the movie then? I didn’t like it. CGI people, CGI feelings and CGI dialogue. Too bad — it could’ve been one of my all time faves but no. I have no faith in hyped up stuff. Never had, never will. Great quality on that copy the guy downloaded though…
365 Project January 2010
Tip: use arrow keys to navigate through the gallery!
Imagine that. I actually took a photo each and every day during this past month. Not only that — I also uploaded all of them to the Flickr photo sharing site for the whole world to see. I mentioned earlier in another post that the quality and the ‘artistry’ of the photos themselves were not that important — it’s the fact that I’ve set out to accomplish something, following through and enjoying the process that matters. It’s a challenge, easy as that.
All the photos were taken with my iPhone 3GS. Some people find it hard to take sharp pictures with no blur when shooting with the iPhone. It’s not hard at all – in fact, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. First off, the picture is taken when you let go of the shutter button, not when you press it down. This is how you should do it; put your finger on the shutter button, frame your shot and chose a focus area (you can brighten a shot by focusing in a dark area), hold the iPhone as steady as humanly possible and let go of the shutter button. Boom, instant iPhone photo skill improvement!
Oh my, this post is getting a bit longer than I expected. On to the last part. How did I go about making this post? Well, the Flickr gallery is generated via the WordPress plugin FancyFlickr and the nice effect that expands the photos and darkens the blog background is non other than the legendary Lightbox 2 plugin. There you go! I might change to another plugin in the future, there’s always better stuff out there that I have to try.
February, here I come…
Links:
FancyFlickr
Lightbox 2
My January 2010 Flickr set at Flickr.com
How To Report The News – BBC Four
Marina And The Diamonds With Gonzales
Marina is at it again with yet another good version of the track ‘Hollywood’. This is brand new — only 482 views on YouTube.
From YouTube-info:
Gonzales dreamt up and conducted a full orchestral reworking of Hollywood, inspired by the songs lyrics. Marina & Gonzales came together to record one performance for an Eastern European TV show…this footage has only now been uncovered…
I guess “only now been uncovered” means “shot, edited and uploaded the other day”. I found this video yesterday on some UK newspaper site and I was happy to see she made it available on her YouTube account. Hollywood is released on 1st February 2010 via 679/Atlantic, and taken from Marina’s debut album ‘The Family Jewels’, out on 22nd February 2010. I think I’ve said it before — I can’t wait!
Links:
Gonzales – Wikipedia
Marina and the Diamonds – Blog
Marina and the Diamonds – MySpace
Cloverfield Monster In Stockholm?
Now this is strange. I came home late after a night of DJing downtown. Just as I was finally heading for bed all hell broke lose outside…
Was the monster from the movie Cloverfield on the prowl in my usually (almost) dead quiet neighborhood? I have never — and I mean NEVER heard noises like these before. I grabbed my video camera and went out on the balcony. I just want to make it absolutely clear, I did NOT fake the sounds in the video. Turn up the volume to get the full effect.
I have no idea what could have made those noises, I know it’s not a monster but the fact that I don’t know the origin of them bothers me.
