James Nachtwey‘s website has a lot of excellent photographs, mostly dedicated to the terrible things witnessed by the photographer – war, crime, hunger, AIDS, etc.
I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should never be forgotten and must not be repeated.
I hope those stinky politicians are browsing through sites like this once in a while…
For some time now I wanted to see “Clerks.“. Today, I finally got my hands on a copy of the film and watched it immidiately. I am glad I did.
“Clerks.” is yet another masterpiece by Kevin Smith aka Silent Bob, who already provided me with a bunch of satisfaction via “Dogma“, “Good Will Hunting“, and “Jersey Girl“. I think I am joining the lines of fans here.
“Clerks.” is all about dialogs. It has so many dialogs that there is no space for anything else in the film. Most of the talking is happening in one of two places – video rentals and a kiosk or minimarket of some kind, where “clerks” work. The film is so tightly packed that there is even no free space for color. Yup. It is in black and white. But there shouldn’t be any color anyway, since the film goes on over a really routine day of a routine clerk. Where is color in that?
The movie’s pace is a bit too fast. There is plenty of food for thought. It did overload me sometimes so I had to think it over and that caused me to miss few bits from the movie. I’ll be rewatching it shortly. Few times. I am also thinking about having it on DVD in my collection. But that needs to be confirmed later.
Anyway, great film that fits 10 out of 10 in my scale. Watch it.
Henk van Rensbergen is a guy with an interesting hobby. He collects records about abandoned places. Old factories, hotels, hospitals, castles, and anything else that has been used once by humans and than dropped out to the archives of the history. There are lots of nice pictures and interesting stories too. Enjoy!
Many things that people say do sound nice but noone seems to have an idea (or even think about) where from they are coming from. Some of these nice things people say are called idioms. There is a nice IdiomSite that tries to explain many words and phrases in the English language that can be heard daily.
Once in a while watching TV can kill you with nostalgy. I almost died such a death today. They were showing something as acient as “Conan the Destroyer” with Arnold totally-unspellable-and-therefor-copy-pasted-named Schwarzenegger.
Special effects and fights will make you laught. Scenery is horrible and unrealistic by today’s standards. Dialogs are not any better. Light and camera work deserve special attention. Everything alltogether seems so lame and funny, but on a serious note that it is almost unbelievable.
While laughing through, Hazard and I had a short argument on what is older – this movie or “Nine 1/2 Weeks“. Well, I turned out to be right – Conan the Masterpiece is from 1984 (although this is a second film with the first one being from 1982), while the erotic flick with lots of food is from 1986. Not that much of a difference, I know, but still… :)
Arnold’s time has passed and I cannot be unhappy about it. It is time of special effects and good acting once again.