Tag Archives: #film

Valley

Posted on February 16, 2019 by d4vid

Alita: Battle Angel is a two hour tour through the uncanny valley. Quite a letdown for a movie I’ve been waiting for since circa 2006.  However, I did enjoy the cameo stunt casting of the Big Boss, a famous actor with … Continue reading →

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Indie

Posted on February 2, 2019 by d4vid

I finally had a chance to see a movie at this adorable little indie movie theater a short walk from my house. It has two screens and the walls are dotted with a series of backlit vignettes of 18th century … Continue reading →

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Crait

Posted on January 31, 2019 by d4vid

I woke up to find all of the streets white.  I genuinely didn’t know what it was.  Frozen rain from the night before?  Some sort of frost? Turns out…

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Bounty

Posted on January 19, 2019 by d4vid

There’s an Indian restaurant in Stamford that I’ve been frequenting, but I can’t read the name without thinking of  the Han Solo line “Well, the bounty hunter we ran into on Ord Mantell changed my mind.”

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Jonah

Posted on January 4, 2019 by d4vid

Between this ad and the “Bilby” short film, I feel like I may have been the one holding DreamWorks Animation back all these years.  They ought to have thrown me overboard years ago.

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Dilated

Posted on January 2, 2019 by d4vid

My brilliant friend Holly had mentioned that Ninefox Gambit, the first book in Yoon Ha Lee‘s Machineries of Empire trilogy, had “cracked [her] head open in a good way” which made me want to read it immediately. By the end of the … Continue reading →

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Mine

Posted on November 16, 2018 by d4vid
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Chair

Posted on November 15, 2018 by d4vid

A view of Mrs Macquarie’s Chair as seen from the shore of the Royal Botanic Garden. (As if I didn’t have enough trouble keeping the names of Star Wars conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie and writer/director Christopher McQuarrie straight, now I’ve … Continue reading →

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Excellent

Posted on November 14, 2018 by d4vid

Strange things are afoot at the Circular Quay. (Note:  although “kwey” is an accepted pronunciation, the preferred pronunciation is “key”.  Just in case my dad wants to make a big deal about this from beyond the grave.)

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Variegated

Posted on November 14, 2018 by d4vid

I forget, is this how you frame giraffes?Or is this preferable?I enjoyed this Imagineer-worthy theming in Southeastern Asia area of the zoo.Goddamn langur monkeys.  Just as obnoxiously loud as they were at the San Diego Zoo!A meerkat.The apes were all … Continue reading →

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Fittest

Posted on November 14, 2018 by d4vid

Having established that Australia already looks a lot like San Diego, I appreciated this robotic T-Rex roaring with Sydney visible in the background.

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Priscilla

Posted on November 9, 2018 by d4vid

About 4000 kilometers (2500 miles-ish) and five states & territories later, I’ve made it from Sydney to Alice Springs, thus completing my The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert route.

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Hilltop

Posted on November 7, 2018 by d4vid

Watching the sun set over Coober Pedy, I found myself thinking of the double sunset on Tattooine. The sound of distant chicken and sheep and dogs made me think of Gyantse in Tibet.  And how in Chapter 80 of the Dao … Continue reading →

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Bullpen

Posted on October 29, 2018 by d4vid

Blue Sky Studio’s (smallish) theater has this on display out in front of it.  It’s a Moviola.  I don’t think I’ve seen one since the “Bullpen” at the Marcia Lucas Post-Production Building swapped them all out for Avids.  I cut … Continue reading →

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Leaves

Posted on September 14, 2018 by d4vid

I saw this DVD lying in the leaves next to this sidewalk.  My immediate thought was “Not idly do the discs of Jackson fall.”

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