a light saber strap. From Caterina and Stewart.
Last night was
a once-in-a-lifetime experience as I sat in my favourite watering hole, the Copacabana bar and watched the Oscars with friends and, at a table not far away, the subject of the the winning animated short, Ryan Larkin. You can view Ryan, by Chris Landreth, at the NFB site on a special Oscar page. It’s a remarkable piece of work.
AJ has posted
a great review of The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, the great new Wes Anderson movie. I love the movie even more as time passes since I saw it, and it will definitely be among the few films I buy on DVD when it is released in a few months.
Back, sort of.
I was away visiting family in Connecticut over the long weekend, and lots has happened while I was gone. Being busy at work and unable to update regularly, here are some apropos pointers.
- As of Sunday, we’re in a general election campaign in Canada.
- The CBS News program 60 Minutes continued to press on Iraq, this time with a story on General Anthony Zinni, who says that the current course in Iraq is “headed over Niagara Falls.”
- Michael Moore won the Palme D’Or at Cannes over the weekend.
- Many are reporting that Rumsfeld has banned digital cameras and cam-phones in Iraq following the prison atrocities – or more specifically, the publication of photographic records of said atrocities. Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin, however, has looked into this in more depth, and apparently it’s not so.
It’s years too late now,
but I finally saw Doug Block’s excellent independent documentary, Home Page, which chronicles a certain thread in the early days of the WWW. It was kind of creepy to watch now, everything under glass like that, but at the same time that history is my history in a big way. So it’s kind of like looking down a weird webified memory lane full of people that formed the experience depicted in Block’s film but also, quite separately, my own past on the net. Weird, but I’m glad I finally saw it.
