something to look at

blog post on "cinemetrical analysis" of director Hou Hsiao Hsien.
I haven't seen any of Hou's work, but the post provides an interesting way of analyzing movies.
OPENING TEN MINUTES: A CINEMETRICAL ANALYSIS

The Dark Knight: (complex action sequence, dialogue scene, beginning of dialogue/action scene)
scenes:20
shots: 80
avg. scene length: 0.5 min
avg. shot length: 0.13 min (~7.5 seconds)
avg. shots per scene: 4.00

A Christmas Tale: (brief opening scene, expository montage, dialogue scene)
scenes: 8
shots: 97
avg. scene length: 1.25 min
avg. shot length: 0.10 min (~6.2 seconds)
avg. shots per scene: 12.13

Flight of the Red Balloon (boy with balloon, balloon flying)
scenes: 6
shots: 9
avg. scene length: 1.67 min
avg. shot length: 1.11 min (~66.7 seconds)
avg. shots per scene: 1.5

not again

I know very little about the Rolex Sweep, but I can't stop watching this polar bear puppet video:

I'm so angry with you sorry

Sorry for posting so many times. I often get like this when I'm nervous about school.

for everyone who watches It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia:
Sylar/Mohinder vid set to "Nightman"
Baby tries to sing "Dayman"
trailer for "A Quiet Little Marriage". ending slightly NSFW. Charlie Day and two other faces you might recognize are in this.

and IASiP is related to Fox vs. SciFi 2009.
You might have heard about the trials and tribulations of a certain show called Dollhouse.

Well, Charlie, Rob, and Glenn (the creators of IASiP) have created a sci-fi comedy pilot for Fox, called Boldy Going Nowhere. video of them talking about it at Comic-Con. According to various entertainment blogs, it seems the most likely of the three sci-fi shows to actually air this year.

The third show? Virtuality, Michael Taylor and Ronald D. Moore's next post-Battlestar Galactica project that isn't Caprica.
Click on that link to see the progress of the show.
It's about the crew of the spaceship Phaeton, who seek escape from their important 10-year voyage (and the mission-financing reality show featuring them) in virtual reality environments. But a mysterious green-eyed man is attacking them in their virtual worlds...
so yeah, at its most simple, it's like holodeck malfunction meets Freddy Krueger with a dash of Sunshine.
extremely detailed discussion of the pilot. The script has been getting good word-of-mouth, and Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights, Hancock) directed the pilot.
But of course, Fox wants the two-hour pilot recut.
The cast of characters (with comments culled and sometimes copy-pasted from various blogs, articles, and forum postings)
- Frank Pike, played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (New Amsterdam). The mission commander. Ex-military. Yes, his last name is Pike, Trek fans.
—Roger Fallon, played by James D'Arcy (UK Sherlock). Psychiatrist. Also producer of an onboard reality show in which the crew members are obligated to take part, the price of their interstellar voyage. Often described as a mix of BSG's Gauis Baltar and Brother Cavil.
—Rika Godard, played by Sienna Guillory. Botanist, in charge of the hydroponics. Fallon's wife, though Guillory said that her character is having an affair with someone on the ship.
—Manny Rodriguez, played by Jose Pablo Cantillo. Mathematician and superstring theorist.
—Valentin Orlovsky, played by Gene Farber. Geologist and Rodriguez's partner. The gay couple wonder if they might have been "cast" for the reality show and publicity considerations...
—Kenji Yamamoto, played by Nelson Lee (Blade, the Series). Exobiologist. Married to Alice Thibadeau.
—Alice Thibadeau, played by Joy Bryant. Exobiologist, but with a different specialty from her husband.
—Jimmy Johnson, played by Ritchie Coster. Inventor of the matter/antimatter weapons technology used to propel the ship. In a wheelchair because of a past accident. Coster described his character as "an agent of chaos."
—Julius "Jules" Braun, played by Erik Jensen. NASA scientist, designer of the ship and navigator.
—Adin Meyer, played by Omar Metwally. Ship's doctor. Born in the West Bank, of Israeli and Palestinian parentage, which I'm sure the writers will exploit utilize.
—Billie Kashmiri (Kerry Bishe). Computer expert and geek. Interfaces with the ship's artificial intelligence. Her virtual reality persona is that of a Joan Jett-like rock star who's also a spy. And the rest of the band are spies too.
—Sue Parsons (Clea DuVall). Ship's pilot. An ex-fighter pilot and very much into physical activity. Her virt modules are mainly about extreme sports. Often called by internet commenters as "Starbuck, Jr."
- and the green-eyed man attacking everyone? Played by Jimmi Simpson, who was Liam McPoyle on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
It all ties together!
oh, and Wendy and Lisa, who compose the original score for Heroes, are set to do the soundtrack for Virtuality. Not as awesome as Bear McCreary, but I can see it working.

in random, unrelated conclusion: Aphex Twin videos are really disturbing. argh you Chris Cunningham. "Come to Daddy" wasn't as scary as I thought it would be, though, because those kids' facial deformities do not automatically = scary to me. Suddenly changing appearance, though? that's scary.