A painting of me
  • Child of the 90s. 

    The advertising for Internet Explorer has been pretty great as of late.

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The Master

   23 January 2013, late evening

P.T. Anderson knows how to make movies. I watched The Master at the Lightbox and it was fantastic. The movie is about the relationship between a shell shocked WWII vet and a charismatic cult leader. Joaquin Phoenix gives a stellar performance. He is unbelievably good in this film. Philip Seymour Hoffman is excellent as usual. This film also featured some of the best cinematography I’ve seen in a long while. I got to see the 70mm print and it looked amazing. The film is really quite affecting. Go watch this film.

Also, I feel like P.T. Anderson loves shots of people running frantically.

The official The Master website.

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  • I Broke My Leg. 

    I’m playing around with 4ormat, which is your best option for an online portfolio website. Here are some photographs from when I broke my leg.

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  • Dungeons & Dragons Classics - Every edition available again. 

    Wizards of the Coast has started selling their back catalogue once again as PDFs. A lot of these books have been out of print for decades, and some are quite expensive as they are collectables. I’m waiting for them to add the Original Dungeons and Dragons books to the store, but there a lot of good stuff available now if you like your D&D.

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  • Form Follows Function. 

    An example of the sorts of design sites you used to see back when Flash was new and spiff. This site is all HTML5.

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Life of Pi

   21 January 2013, early morning

I watched Life of Pi over the holidays, in 3D no less. The bulk of the film, like the book it is based on, follows a boy as he travels shipwrecked across the ocean in a small boat with a Bengal tiger. I should start by saying I feel like an idiot because I had thought they had an actual tiger for many of the shots in the film, but the tiger in the film is completely computer animated. It’s insane how good it looks. It’s a nice uplifting film. Both the book and the film have one of my favourite lines of text ever, which I won’t ruin for you now. I had never seen anything in 3D before and I thought Life of Pi actually looked quite amazing in 3D: nothing felt cheesy about it. So yeah, go watch this film. I thought it does the book justice.

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  • Crazy Blind Date by OkCupid. 

    OkCupid has got to be the coolest online dating site: based on their blog and side projets. I have no idea if they are actually good for finding dates.

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  • Open access, open internet, closed book. 

    Aaron Swartz committed suicide over the weekend. He was 26 years old. He was being prosecuted quite heavily by the US government at the time of his death for downloading files from JSTOR. Laurence Lessig and Alex Stamos have both written articles about the case that are well worth your time to read. Update: Another perspective: he was funny.

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