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Tag Archives: The Shining
Mission Accomplished bava.studio
Feeling pretty good right now. A friend of mine in Trento, Andrea, passed along a message from the Trento Strano group somewhere on WhatsApp—or whereever it is Italians are Italian together online. I had told Andrea, and also mentioned the … Continue reading
The Shining Diorama
Now that the BAV-O-RAMA is up and running cleanly, with signage and everything, it’s high time I start thinking about the next diorama. I knew from early on that my second installation would be from The Shining, in particular the … Continue reading
“Il mattino ha l’ oro in bocca”
One of the things I have been looking forward to greatly this summer was finally watching The Shining with my oldest son. He’s already a bit of a horror fan junky, but I’ve begged him to hold off on this … Continue reading
Completely Unreliable Assholes
I don’t know why, but I love that someone took the time to isolate this 3 second clip of Scatman Crothers speaking truth to power in The Shining. And if you’re not into the whole brevity thing and you feel … Continue reading
VHS Quality Streaming at Reclaim Video
So the experiments continue at Reclaim Video with making this a fully functional, web-based VHS store. It is non-sensical, but that is kind of the point. We heard that streaming might be all the rage i the future, so we … Continue reading
Reclaim Video on a Thursday Afternoon
While Reclaim Video officially opened two weeks ago, it did not really dawn on me until almost a week later. After the grand opening we locked in with MBS then road tripped to get Centipede. But as it turns out people … Continue reading
Come and Play with Us, Danny Revisited
In 2010, a six year old Miles discovered the creepy twins from The Shining in a Northern Virginia pizza joint. Almost 7 years later the twins have returned in the form a custom-made Shining t-shirt Antonella bought for me on my … Continue reading
Danny’s Wheels
I am still playing with John Johnston’s cartoon script command line kung-fu using scenes from The Shining. You can see yesterday’s Punch and Judy show here. Today I wanted to try and play with some of the scenes of Danny … Continue reading
Gimme the Bat
I’m in a ds106 state of mind these days. In particular, I’ve been meaning to dig into all the amazing work John Johnston has been doing with command line tools over the last several years. I always looked on in … Continue reading
Lunch with the Torrances
During a discussion I had with a group of faculty this evening about managing their own domains, one professor asked how he might approach blogging in his film class. Because I can’t help myself, I immediately mentioned to GIFs as a way to … Continue reading