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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

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Missed opportunity: Julius Popp created a waterfall installation entitled Bit.Fall to output words formed by droplet streams, fed from news pulled from the Internet. It was hosted in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, and this short documentary touches on his motivations. I’m irritated I was unaware of this and some other interesting exhibitions it accompanied last fall.


found via The Wooster Collective

Bit.Fall has since moved on, but I’m marking my calendar for the Summer exhibitions (May 11 – July 16) to check out Ansel Adams: Reverence for Life. His photography alone is always amazing, but they also plan to screen two short films worth viewing.

Rant: Every web-site with a calendar of events should also serve a syndication feed with event markup so I stop missing the interesting things in my city.

Serenity Revisited

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Apple posted the second US trailer for Serenity, and I’m more excited to see this movie everytime I replay it. More action and fun showcased in this one, which I think may grab more attention. I’d love to see this trailer aired in the theaters to encourage a larger audience opening night.

We were so sad when we finished the Firefly series on DVD thinking “this is it – no more Firefly stories ever.” I’m incredibly thankful Universal saw potential in Joss Whedon’s world and the outstanding Firefly cast. Hopefully this movie is the beginning of much more.

I’ve already seen the movie in pre-release form twice, but I’m still looking forward to the September 30th release!

Reminder: if you don’t have the DVDs but want to revisit the series, or have never seen the series, SciFi is replaying the episodes. Sadly, for some reason they’ve chopped the widescreen format it was filmed in (possibly some syndication restricting from the evil Fox network) and air it as a pan/scan edit where you miss so much of what was originally included. If it rubs you the wrong way too, pick up the DVDs (I wish Fox wasn’t making money on that).

Because I am a Firefly fanboy

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In 24 hours I will be in line to see a (“can’t stop the signal“) Advance Preview Screening of Serenity, the film based on Joss Whedon’s Firefly.

Who want’s to touch me?!

Serenity officially releases September 30, so I’m somewhat excited.

We’re such freaks about this, the fact that it’s showing in another city is a minor detail.

We have a few extra tickets. Feel like a last minute vacation? Speak up fast… bah, you’re probably reading this too late anyway.

It would have been fun to sell extra tix on ebay, but if we still have them tomorrow night, it looks like they get passed out to whoever’s camping the theater. Hopefully we can make some browncoat‘s day.

Wonderful Days

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From the press kit

Wonderful Days is the first movie to implement the unique system of multimation involving the mix of 2D cell animation, 3D CGI, and the Miniatures. Characters are in 2D to capture subtle expressions and mannerisms. Mechanics and backgrounds are in 3D to create a sense of speed and solidity. And the primary backgrounds and structures are filmed miniatures. Wonderful Days succeeds in creating an animation with a sense of realism and depth never before achieved. While movies such as Jurassic Park, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter have used a certain amount of multimation, Wonderful Days is the first movie not only in Korea but the world to use it on such an immense scale.

My Wonderful Days DVD just came. I’ll host a movie night for it soon.

Or Not. Turns out the (region free) region nonsense didn’t work out the way I thought, and I cannot currently play the DVD. (I suppose it’s for the best, Kelly’s not here right now, and she’d want to see it also.

Another edit… After becoming concerned that the DVD itself was bad since it failed in the XBOX and my laptop’s DVD player, I was going to get Trev involved to see if it ran on any of his setups. It occured to me that before I try that, I should throw it in the PS2 and see if it recognizes the DVD. Sure enough, it plays without problem.

OH MY GOD it’s pretty.