Thinking in vain...

I live one county over from Franklin County. I think this movie should be good. Although, I've never seen a dust storm like that IN THE MOUNTAINS.

Of course, from the trailer, there aren't many mountains from what I can see.

Half-A-Million Screenshots put together a cool stunt for the release of Prometheus (which I'm so excited about).

They've transformed an abandoned metro station, the Saint-Martin station, which as been closed since 1939 into an advertising installation.

If for some reason you're lucky enough to be or live in Paris, the installation will be up until May 25 on the Metro Line 9.





(via AdWeek via Adverblog)

This time by Midnight Marauder. Mostly awesome Sci-fi movies.

(via – with more.)

Fake movie title screens designed by Lorenzo Cappelli. He takes mod­ern come­dies and trans­forms them into vin­tage classics. Check out his Flickr for more.


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If you haven't seen this movie yet, shame on you. Seriously. It's awesome.
So if you haven't seen it, below is one of the reasons you should. And if you have, it'll make you want to see it again.
There's a great article over on io9 about the making of the movie's title sequence. Tim Miller from Blur talks about the inspiration for them.


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Shutter Ísland from Team Nine on Vimeo.

Absolutely gorgeous. By Team Nine. Found via Inspired by Iceland.

I don't think I saw half these, but this makes them seem more interesting.

BRNO HDR from samadhi production on Vimeo.

Just beautiful. Make sure you have your earphones in, the music compliments it well. (via)

Claymation + Indiana Jones

What do we have today? Oh the Trent Reznor & Atticus Finch sountrack for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is available for pre-order. Also a free 6-track sample and the 8 minute trailer. They're instrumentals so my copywriter friends are in luck.

If you follow me on Twitter or are my friend on Facebook – I love AR games. Or anything with puzzles. Even if I do tend to suck at them. I played the Starbucks Game with Lady Gaga and I won free coffee. Better than nothing.

Now the promotion for TGWTDT is going on (and has been), and yeah I'm attempting to play that too.

Unfortunately, I'm not good AND I don't live in a big city likely to have a prize. Either way I'm super excited for this movie and for playing the game.

If you want some background and what's been happening, Mentorless has been doing a fantastic recap job. And I'll not try to even go there. The blogger even found Lisbeth Salander's jacket from the movie.

If you want to play too, clues get posted to mouth-taped-shut.com and to their twitter.

For other designers/ADs, the razor blade poster is awesome and there's a super cool video about the process. I want one.

Via Shaun. :) I can live with The Riddler if they make him cool.

35mm from Pascal Monaco on Vimeo.

I got most of them... well some of them.

Found via my new favorite blog, which I think I found on twitter...

Fricking AWESOME movie. I'm going to go see it again. Maybe tonight.

Interestingly enough, I was almost attacked by bats on Friday night.

I'd never seen this. Maybe because this is the kind of commercial that gets shown on channels I don't watch ala ESPN.

ESPN has cooler commercials than the History Channel.

The first time I saw this commercial was in the theater last Saturday. Apparently no one else had seen it either. It came on, the whole theater got quiet and then when the first guy jumps into the "pool" the whole theater went "Ooooh." And that's not an exaggeration.

Yeah, that's right, here it is. Got this on the 20th.

*If you listen, hit stop after it's finished or it'll loop. I can't figure out how to make that stop yet.

So this from Make The Logo Bigger reminded me of my movie going experience this past Monday.

Monday afternoon, my sister and I decided to go see a movie.

We walked up to the girl taking the tickets and she looked at me and my sister and said, "I need to check your bags for [something mumbled]."

I said "ok," as I opened my bag... "what are you looking for?"

"Cameras."
"Oh, I have a camera." I showed her my camera case.
"But there's nothing in there?"
"No, my camera is in here." (I'm too damn honest.)
"You can't bring that into the theater, but you can leave it at the desk." She points to the customer service desk behind us with some sketchy-looking man standing behind it.
"I'm not leaving it there."

She told me I could take it to my car. So we left and half-way to my car I realized that it's about 400˚ with the humidity and my camera might not like that. So every step I got more and more irritated. Cat said I should say something when we got back in (which we've now learned, I hate to do.)

We got back in and she didn't check our bags (Cat pointed out that again we were too honest as I could've kept the camera in my bag). But I did tell her that if the heat ruined my camera I'd be getting money. She said OK.

When we sat down in the theater, we realized that 1) she hadn't checked ANYONE else for cameras and 2) there was no sign that said you couldn't have a camera in your bag and 3) we had come to the same theater Friday night to see Pirates (with the same purses) and had not been required to open our bags.

So we were irritated. Or well, I was and now all I was concerned with was that my camera would be OK. Besides, like I had enough batteries to film the entire film and they would have seen me trying to.

Now, we're waiting for the movie to start - I dunno what's worse the 20 minutes of previews and commercials or the damn E! trivia before those that I have to listen to. All of a sudden a very loud employee is telling us to settle down and he has announcements for us.

The gist of it was that we needed to turn our cell phones off now, if we needed to take a call we had to leave the theater completely. If someone so much as put the phone up to their ear, they would have to leave the theater for good. If they saw a cell phone light, the person would have to leave the theater and could not come back. Text messaging is not allowed. If someone is bothering you, come find them and they will kick them out.

Now enjoy the movie.

So they try to take my camera and they give me a lecture (I realize that the lecture wasn't directed solely at me, but still). We've decided not to go back if we can help it. Bad thing is, that's the cleanest theater in the Valley.

That and the movie was horrible. Stop making sequels.

I'm a little late on this movie, I know.

I stayed up way too late watching The Boondock Saints last night (the edited version though, I might have to go rent the full one).

Now I get it, that movie is awesome.