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WatchBoys & Uglydolls
(2004) Length: 1:44
An attempt to pose three babies, three plush toys, and a 4-year-old for a photograph. Results were mixed, then set to a 90s pop track. My boy is the confused one in the back with the ENORMOUS arms and legs.
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“It’s important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are...”
– Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story 3, Wired magazine, via (37signals)
I suppose that means I need to stop yelling at people for screwing up and start yelling at them for screwing up too slowly.
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WatchLighting Round, 10th Edition (4min32sec)
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Sometimes a clip party participant will pull a DVD out of their collection, ready to extract a clip they know will be terrific. An ESTABLISHED CLASSIC from cinematic history.
Until they watch it, and realize it will never work as a three-minute clip.
Case in point: the crop duster attack from Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest.
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Michael Giacchino and the music of LOST →
The May 17 New Yorker feature about Michael Giacchino’s workflow in developing 35+ minutes of orchestral music for each week’s episode of LOST is pretty great but is only available in the print edition. (“PRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINT!!!!!!!”)
While the profile glosses over the transition from composition to score sheets (seemingly pulled off overnight), the portrait...
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WatchLighting Round, 9th Edition
At 2 minutes 50 seconds, our shortest Lightning Round montage.
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Twelve years ago I wrote and posted an online fan essay about actress and action star Michelle Yeoh. I used 3,600 words attempting to describe my response to the 40-second scene (from Supercop) above:
My movie-viewing life was changed in an instant when mid-film [Jackie] Chan’s character is rescued by the woman who to that point had served as merely a comic foil to his...
