Pretty much all of these reactions happen to me on a daily basis. This is definitely required following.
Friends.
Book 12 of 52: A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson.
It had its moments. For every one quarter funny there was boring to uninteresting to educational. I especially liked the parts where he railed against government forest conservation services. So this covered the spectrum in terms of passable non-fiction. I’m going to teach this alongside Harkaway’s The Blind Giant for my first year seminar next fall. Bryson’s snarky and cranky tone would probably echo mine if I decided to embark on an expedition like this one, but this does have points that would do well in a classroom setting. Though for every interesting classroom bit and funny moment, it was covered by whole passages of Bryson ruminating on the flowers and the trees and yeah you’re bored aren’t you. I was for at least half of this book. He doesn’t really have staying power.
Tim Leong. I’m the Director of Digital Design of WIRED Magazine. Founder of Comic Foundry. Former Design Director of Complex Magazine. // I like comic books, infographics and design. Let’s play.
I am super-excited for this book because Tim is a great guy and a helluva designer. Congrats on the book.
It’s that time of year again and we’re gearing up for yet another stellar display of student filmmaking at the Lake Placid Film Forum. Here are the details if you want to participate as an actor:
If you have ever dreamed of acting in a film, here’s your chance! The Lake Placid Film Forum is…
Here’s the call for actors for the student competition I’m helping organize for the 2013 Lake Placid Film Forum. Click above for details.
danhacker said: I’m pretty much with you. I loved the stuff with Tony and the kid,but why spend so much time working on the MK 47 if he could control 40 other armors remotely. The ending where Pepper is cured and his heart is fixed was a little too convenient.
Tony and the kid was the best part of the movie. Another thing that I kept thinking about was how similar it was to past Shane Black creations. The Downey/Cheadle relationship had a very Riggs/Murtaugh feel to it. And although Black only wrote the story for Lethal Weapon II, the dock finale had its share of similarities as well. And the stilt house being pulled down was kind of Stark’s home being destroyed-ish. And didn’t Riggs’ house get destroyed by a helicopter in one of the Lethal Weapon flicks? And the Stark/kidnapped scene reminded me of a combination of “The Inventor of Scrabble”/”Touch Me Again And I’ll Kill You” scenes from The Last Boyscout.
Meh, reaching.
Nah, not reaching. I had those impressions too. It definitely felt like a Lethal Weapon movie with Iron Man in it, but that’s pretty much exactly what I expected.
By October, when Pulp opened in the U.S., there was a new zingers-and-gore-peddling enfant terrible in town. The inexact-but-tempting parallel to draw here is that Black was Guns N’ Roses and Tarantino was Nirvana, with French New Wave reference points in place of punk cred. They’re more stylistically alike than that analogy suggests; the difference is that as a writer/director and a shameless attention-hog, Tarantino was able to get out in front of his movies in ways Black never could
The Twisted Career of Hollywood Bad Boy Shane Black by Alex Pappademas. This should be required reading.
Discovered this while doing some spring cleaning. It’s the t-shirt logo featuring me for my senior year Spring Weekend softball team. Ten years ago last weekend was the last time I wore this thing.
