The Underdog
Oscar thought it would be appropriate to help anticipate the arrival of Spoon in our country :) HD version here.
Short Reviews #30
Cloverfield (2008)
Who doesn’t love a good monster movie? Note the word ‘good’ because there are plenty of monster movies that suck. But Cloverfield isn’t one of them. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the filmmakers went down the whole Jaws route in that they don’t reveal the ‘monster’ fully until much later in the film. And secondly, the use of hand-held camera-work and attention to suspense work beautifully, as it did in The Blair Witch Project. Brought to us by Lost and Alias creator J.J. Abrams (he didn’t direct this however) and rolled out over a highly successful online campaign, the film delivers the goods where it needs to. Letting the film down slightly is the two-dimensional, fresh-faced WB-lookers but that doesn’t matter a great deal since all the effort has gone into the execution and special effects and that’s what you pay your money for with these films. It would be nice to have stronger characters in there but it’s not essential for a film like Cloverfield. It’s intense and original enough to recommend it.
Greatest Music Photos Ever
Sufjan Stevens
The National
I’m not going to lie to you. These are some of my best work thus far. The top one was from the Wednesday night Sufjan gig. My opinion of the show? Pretty good. ‘John Wayne Gacy, Jnr’ and ‘Chicago’ were amongst my favourites. The trumpet player was incredible too. But overall, I didn’t love the show was much as I thought I would. It felt slightly predictable at times, some of the arrangements.
Friday night seeing The National was incredible though. Tonight I will be shooting them properly but I can safely say they have been the best gig of 2008 so far and look likely to enter in the top 5’s of 2008. I promise to add more megapixels to my shots tonight ;)
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Hooverdust is a pop culture blog designed and developed by James Sann. I cover a range of topics such as Film, Music, TV, Photography, Design and teh internets.
Based in Melbourne and Bendigo, Australia, in my professional life, I am a freelance multimedia designer, photographer and a part-time University lecturer & tutor.
5D MKII Australian Prices
Time to shop around if you are lucky enough to have a spare $3800 lying around. Via Shopbot.
40 Exquisite Independent Film Posters
Many of these films are worth a look at too! Via Smashing Magazine.
Gmail adds Themes
Yeah not bad I guess although why not allow users to design their own? Via Digg.
Jaden Smith is the new Karate Kid
I LOVE the first film so this is sacrilege. Plus Jaden is only 10 years old! Why not just make a different movie altogether? Via comingsoon.
Pleasefixtheiphone
Copy and paste. Flash in Safari? Yes please. They also need a pleasefixtheipodtouch.com because it should be able to take photos & use GPS like the iPhone. Via Pleasefixtheiphone
James Cameron talks Piranha 2
Oh yes he does! Ha! Via Splicd.
New MacBook and MacBook Pro's
Sexy but farking expensive for us Aussies. Via Apple.
Wall Street 2?
Guess it makes sense to fast track this project right now. Via theage.
Cracking Open the 4th Gen iPod Nano's
I tried opening my 4th Gen 40GB old skool iPod a couple of years back and broke mine. Don't try this at home! Via CNET UK.
Wall-E
Ultimately charming and heart-warming Pixar effort is a sheer delight from start to finish. Homage's to 2001, E.T and all your favourite childhood Sci-Fi movies are plentiful and just to realise so much emotion from an animated robot that hardly talks throughout the entire movie is a feat in itself. The Blu-ray version will be stunning!
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