Asymco’s “Hollywood by the Numbers” – Industrial Sclerosis
Growing up a math nerd in Los Angeles, I was preternaturally drawn to Hollywood metrics. My dad would bring home Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, and I would comb over the latest box office numbers and television ratings. So it was that I was compelled to read Asymco’s lengthy exegesis on Hollywood box office data [...]
Thoughts on CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS
Thanks to paid family leave, Stacy and I were able to duck out to a matinee of Cave of Forgotten Dreams, in 3D… with an 8-week-old in tow! The subject matter of the film, the prehistoric art on the walls of the Chauvet Cave, is heartstoppingly powerful. Bearing witness to creative and communicative output that [...]
Film thoughts: INCEPTION
I’m wary of calling this a “review”. With a nearly-two-year-old at home, I don’t get to see many flicks in theaters. We’re pretty choosy, and we want to see films that warrant the big screen. Last night we saw Inception, which, according to my tweet stream over its opening weekend, was a film that nearly [...]
David Byrne at TED – The venue determines the music
I enjoyed David Byrne’s talk at TED today. He put forth a theory of creativity that runs contrary to the romantic model. Instead of thinking of creativity as a thing that emerges from the force of soemone’s specific artistic bent, he walked through the history of music and showed how music styles have been highly [...]
Cities in film
Watching a documentary on the gangster film, it got me to think about cities in film. What films depict the idea of the city really well; communicate the warp, weft, and flow of a metropolis. The types of movies that all my friends who are engaged in thinking about urbanism should see. Here’s the start [...]
Dark Zeitgeist – Needless Nihilism in Batman’s Bombast
Last night we went to see The Dark Knight. I try not to get my hopes up for superhero flicks, but the buzz around this one was so strong, I was definitely looking forward to it. Sigh. I found one review that agrees with how I felt, and I shouldn’t have been surprised that it [...]
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