Check out these incredible symmetrical long exposure images from Shinichi Higashi.
Here is an example:
82nd & Fifth
The Metropolitan Museum on Art has a great video clip collection of 100 curators from around the world talking about pieces of art that they feel have changed the way that they view the world. Sort of TED for art lovers.
Click here for more.
Vintage images: Paris flood of 1910
Some incredible images here of the Great Flood of 1910 in Paris where the Seine rose approximately 20 feet higher than normal!
Here is a sample: the Pont Alexandre III at the height of the flood.
Cute animal photos
okay… long week… not much to say except that if you, like me, are sick and tired of the snow and the cold, click here and prepare to smile at the adorable animal photos! 🙂
Movie of the Night: none
It is snowing and still -10 so we decided that tonight is a good time to go to the Nordik Spa. If you haven’t been, go. That’s it, nothing to see here. Carry on. Unless you want me to run down my day in the Corporate Planning world? Didn’t think so.
🙂
In The Flesh: BBC3
BBC3 has joined the zombie er, partially dead, movement with In The Flesh. Kieren Walker was once afflicted with Partial Death Syndrome. That’s right, once. The undead are de-undeaded, meaning that with proper medication, these former zombies are about to be re-integrated into society. Walker lives in a rural area and quickly confronts the spectre of prejudice: full blown armed gangs (religiously motivated… always rational and level headed mobs) that are willing to defy the central governments attempt at re-integration. I’m hoping for pitch forks and burnings. Walker also has to deal with recurring flashback from when he used to eat brains. Great first episode! Only two more episodes and I’m certain to watch them all!
More info here, with the trailer.
iOS storyboards
I am loving learning Xcode! Really different from Actionscript but does share a lot of common object-oriented best practices.
I started with a great book from Apress called Beginning iOS Storyboarding here.
March snowstorm
So we are being blanketed my 5-7cm of snow today. I’m happy since I am heading to the Nordiq Spa this week but not looking forward to going to the gym this morning! Come on summer!
Photo links of the day
Tonight’s Movie: The Man From Nowhere
A 2010 South Korean movie that has been suggested to me by a few friends. I will give a longer synopsis after I watch the film.
From IMDB, a seemingly standard plot, think Leon: “A quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug- and organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.”
More @ IMDB.
Update. Not as good as Leon but there were elements of very artistic camera work that was, unfortunately, too lonely in a sea of “seen it done better before.” And I hate voice overs but I had no choice. I much prefer the original language with subtitles. I can read.
More derivative than original but worth the watch if you are in the mood for a South Korean crime thriller about drug smuggling and illegal organ harvesting.
And yes, I suck at movie reviews.
I liked the aspect ratio of the film.