Well, I guess I gotta get going on my formative 10 because what has taken me almost eight months, has taken D’Arcy Norman all of three days. I find it interesting how much a formative 10 can tell you about someone, for example given D’Arcy’s first three films it’s pretty obvious he’s a science nerd [...]
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Formative 10: Escape from New York
Published by October 25th, 2008 in Formative 10, Uncategorized, films and movies. 4 CommentsFormative 10: The Thing (1982)
Published by October 22nd, 2008 in Formative 10, film and movies. 9 CommentsBack to the lost formative ten. John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) has consistently been in my top three movies of all time since I first saw it. A masterpiece on many levels, and in fact there are two Carpenter films in my formative ten, and both of them center around his ability to create [...]
Formative 10: Clash of the Titans & the Cinema of Attractions
Published by July 19th, 2008 in Formative 10, Uncategorized, film, films and movies. 9 CommentsWhen talking about films I saw as a pre-pubescent adolescent, I think one of the most important would have to be Ray Harryhausen’s Clash of the Titans (1981). Now technically, keeping inline with the logic of discussing film, I should have said Desmond Davis’s Clash of the Titans because he was the director, and ever [...]
I had the great pleasure of re-watching one of my favorite films of all time recently with Shannon during our lunch hour. We saw the The Ultimate Director’s Cut version of The Warriors (1979) released in 2005, which I had not yet seen —and I must say the digital transfer of the film is [...]
Dawn of the Dead, take 3
Published by April 28th, 2008 in Formative 10, YouTube, insructional technology, mashup and movies. 2 CommentsFinally, the last and mashed installation of my Dawn of the Dead (1978) series which took far more technical and creative energy than I originally imagined. The idea behind this experiment was simple: create three commentaries upon the social/political sub-themes dealing with consumer culture embedded within Dawn of the Dead using video-based approaches. [...]
Being good for my word, below is the second version of the Dawn of the Dead clip I published yesterday here, but this time with a running commentary of the edited scenes. It is far from perfect, and Jerry gave me a ton of good recommendations for making it better, so I will return [...]
Dawn of the Dead, Take 1
Published by April 21st, 2008 in Formative 10, mashup and movies. 3 CommentsOver the next three days I am going to be publishing three different videos dealing with George Romero’s genius horror film Dawn of the Dead (1978). The first of the three (this post) is a six-minute, edited “argument” of scenes that I think frame the power and importance of this film as both horror and [...]
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