In the lead up to the Paralympic Games, Ms. Austin has staged a series of stunning underwater scuba performances called ‘Creating the Spectacle!’ to show off her underwater art.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
All Kinds Of Awesome
Artist Sue Austin has been in an wheelchair since 1996. With the support of scuba-diving experts, Austin has created a wheelchair fit with a propeller and fins that enable her to steer the wheelchair underwater. This wheelchair is part of her ongoing project called ‘Freewheeling’, which focuses on the intersection of art and disability.
In the lead up to the Paralympic Games, Ms. Austin has staged a series of stunning underwater scuba performances called ‘Creating the Spectacle!’ to show off her underwater art.
In the lead up to the Paralympic Games, Ms. Austin has staged a series of stunning underwater scuba performances called ‘Creating the Spectacle!’ to show off her underwater art.
Judge Dredd 3D
Judge Dredd is a pretty good Judge. He is not only physically perfect he is also viciously brilliant. His psychological mind games are the greatest tool in his arsenal. The judges are no fucking joke and this movie made me repel from the violence the dispense as a manner of course but found the film remarkable 'just', if that makes any sense. I got a real thrill from this actioner. It's not derivative and slick with visual imagery that is only enhanced by 3D.
Ma-Ma is a scary ass villain. Lena Headey has only become more fierce a presence since bursting on the scene in '300' and her current role in Game of Thrones. She puts a lot of smart blocks in Dredd's path and each one forces him to think his way out if he can't shoot his way out first. It's so much fun trying to imagine what I would do before seeing what the creators have Karl Urban do.
Speaking of Urban, he is AMAZING in this. I never tire of seeing him perform be it as Dr. McCoy in the Star Trek reboot to Eomir in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He always deliver a memorable performance. Here he is steel. The spirit of the British comic lives within him. He is everything the grim hero was in the comic - who himself perfectly reflects the political thought on law and order in the times he was first created - and more.
Urban's lean stillness and great line delivery feels genuine and never cartoonish. Stallone never figured that part out. Dredd is all about CONTROL. It's not about screaming to everyone at the top of your lungs that YOU ARE THE LAW.
(Though I must admit that I have a love for that goofy 1995 version.)
Dredd is Rambo, dispensing his brade of no-nonsense 80s justice. Good and Evil had few grey shadings in the 80s. The foreign policy of many countries approached world problems with a certainty of correctness.
The story clips along like chapters in a graphic novel. Setting everything in one building was genius. Like going through levels in a video game and I played along the whole damn time. I know I would have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of playing a video game version of Dredd. This must be what gamers feel like when they totally immerse themselves in a computer generated first person shooter.
The slow mo effect of high speed slow action photography is frightfully effective. Watching bodies explode is like looking a bullet photography. This is often a gruesome film. Maybe leave the toddlers in the car if you go see it.
It's interesting to watch Dredd turn rookie cop Anderson into a Judge worthy of her place in the Hall of Justice. He gives her just enough questions to ask herself so that the answers she finds help her grow from a rookie to full fledged Judge...maybe.
The contrast to Urban’s simmering steel is the warmth of the Anderson character played by Olivia Thirlby (Juno). The film shrewdly gives her psychic abilities that prevents her from wearing a helmet and allows her to literally snatch some of the subtext from the scenes with her powers. She is effective in giving the audience our route into this violent world, and is neatly positioned between Dredd and the films central villain, with conflicted feelings about Dredd’s black-and-white perspective on the world.
Custom He-Man Figures
These are magnificent custom action figures that I came across on one of MY daily go-to sites, the DAILY WHAT. I like how colorful and substantial they are and the little details that go into making each figure. Any one of these is a worthy addition to the HE-Man line of action figures.
Eternia was such a freaky bondage leather club as a planet.
Catra is her custom packaging. The skirt is a bit short. I think I see vagine.
I like this Voodoo figure. It's a good idea and the design is solid and spooky.
And my favorite custom He-Man figure of all time. HE-BRO
In the real He-Man line there is a green man, a rock man, a red man, a moss man but no black man? That is some cold bullshit right there. I have many black action figures but they are few and far between.
Incidentally I have NO He-Man figures in my collection though I love their design.
Life During The Cold War - Go West
I know this is crazy but I remember this song being performed on some music awards show and the background singers was the Russian Red Army Choir who travelled the world singing those great songs of the Motherland. This was back in the mid-nineties - the time of big changes in Russia and Eastern Europe. This song and that performance seemed to capture that mood of the time perfectly for me. The only thing left to fear were douchy Eastern Europeans.
This Is The Way I Remember 1980 So The Movie Is Pretty Accurate
What movie was that you wanted me to see now?
Saturday, September 29, 2012
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