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Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Transformers Review

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My review now available at LAist.


 
 
 

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Monday, June 25, 2007

Spider-Man 3 Tagged

Spider-Man 3 Billboard

Spider-Man 3 Billboard
Billboard for Spider-Man 3 tagged by a guy who I believe goes by the name "Augor". Actually, I think the kids call it "modifying," while a tag is just a name or alias scrawled anywhere and everywhere.

While all tags are lame, there is some really amazing graffiti out there and this guy's modifications are pretty cool. You can search Flickr for more of his work. I especially enjoy the Silver Surfer one, which I saw, but didn't manage to shoot.

 
 
 

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Grindhouse Premiere - 03/26/07

Grindhouse Premiere, 03/26/07

I think I've said it before, but it bears repeating; if you live in Los Angeles, there's a decent chance you know someone who works in or around the film industry. It's like living in Detroit and knowing someone who has something to do with making cars.

The nice thing about knowing these people is that occasionally you'll get to ride on their coattails to some sweet event. This night was the premiere of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez' double feature event Grindhouse.


Grindhouse Premiere, 03/26/07
This was a fun night at the Orpheum theatre, one of L.A.'s historic movie palaces on Broadway in downtown. The downside was not having invites to the party, which is really where you want to go on premiere night, if only for free booze and appetizers.


Grindhouse Premiere, 03/26/07
The nice thing about this night was that you got a crap load of movie - two movies actually - along with fake trailers and 1970s movie theatre interstitials.

Both movies are very entertaining, with Tarantino's film Death Proof edging out Rodriquez' Planet Terror as my favorite of the evening. Tarantino puts together one of the best car chases in years and it's the real thing. It's not one of these crappy, Fast & Furious, 99% CG crapfests of a car chase. This are real cars zipping down the highway and one of them has a girl on the hood, holding on by her finger tips.

Not to be outdone, Rodriquez gives us the sexiest amputee you'll ever see. Rose McGowan and her rifle leg are an exquisite match and the epitome of the grindhouse estetic filtered through the lens of a skilled filmmaker with plenty of money.

Sadly, I think these movies were a victim of this country's average attention span of zero. At somewhere between three and four hours, a night at the grindhouse is a bit of a commitment, but as long as you do a little pre-show bladder management, you should be okay. All you weaklings who balked at a sixth of a day inside a movie theatre should know that Europeans were nearly rioting in the streets, because these movies were being released seperately. Perhaps I can appeal to your cheap side. Think of it as seeing two seven dollar movies. You've paid twice as much for movies that are a third as long. If you can still find it in theatres, you should take advantage of this little gift from Dimension Films.

Grindhouse Premiere, 03/26/07
Orpheum abstract

 
 
 

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

More from Sundance 2007

THE PARK CITY TROUSER WEASEL
Sundance - Mon. 01/22
Well, you do have to keep warm there in January. For some reason, for at least two years running, this store has had this product prominently featured in it's front window on Main Street. I wonder how many they sell.


THE HITCHER
Sundance - Mon. 01/22

THE HITCHER II
Sundance - Mon. 01/22
I like these two images. This guy was thumbing a ride on the road out of Park City, heading towards Salt Lake City. I like how the part of the image blocked out by the sideview mirror in the first is almost all that is in the second. Both of these were shot out of the window of a moving car, so it wasn't planned at all. Just a happy accident.


THE WAITING
Sundance - Tues. 01/23
Everyone thinks, "Ohhh... Ooooo... Sundance is so fun and glamourous!" Well, for the average attendee, this is what the film festival looks like. This is a shot of the line up tent outside of the Holiday Village Cinemas at around 6:30am. That's when you have to arrive if you don't already have a ticket and you want to get into the 8am screenings... and I just barely got in. A couple more views of Sundance at early morning.

Sundance - Tues. 01/23

Sundance - Tues. 01/23
Looking away from the tent, towards the Albertson's and the ski slopes beyond.

Sundance - Tues. 01/23
It starts to lighten up as I make it back from the Albertson's with my coffee and muffin to enjoy the wait list line.


WAIT LIST
Sundance - Tues. 01/23
An all too common sight for your humble servant.


A VERY SUNDANCE QUEUE
Sundance - Tues. 01/23
If you have a hard ticket, you wait to the left and you get in. If you don't, you wait to the right and you send up a little prayer. They say that there's no such thing as an atheist in a Sundance wait list line.


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Check out all the Sundance pictures and more at Flickr.

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