Movie Scenes of the Past in Real Life New York
[Images: Christopher Moloney/Filmography]
Going Behind the Scenes in Middle-Earth
Someone posted a treasure trove of Hobbit set photos. Sit back with a bit of Longbottom Leaf and just try to contain your excitement.
Blade Runner: Aquarelle Edition
I’m a fan of patient things. If you wanted to dig deep it’s a reaction to the hyper immediacy of digital lives. With everything a touch, click or swipe away, we forget the journey on our leap to the destination. Communication, ideas and thoughts get reduced to an atomized 140 characters.
Which, now that my jaw is no longer on the ground, I say take twelve minutes to watch Anders Ramsell’s watercolor remix of Blade Runner. This reportedly is part 1 of more to come, and Ramsell has created it by painting and then animating 3,285 separate watercolors across his timeline. — Michael
Amazing.
‘Hunger Games’ fashion comes to fiery life: Costume designer Judianna Makovsky makes sure Katniss and company are dressed to impress.
The costumes in the film are wonderful to look at, but they are also an interesting study because of how they reflect today’s fashion world.
The simple beauty of the clothes in District 12, for example, recalls fashion’s never-ending fascination with vintage work wear, authenticity and Americana, which is seen in “heritage” brands such as RRL and L.L. Bean. And the outrageous clothing in the Capitol brings to mind the see-and-be-photographed blogger culture that thrives on peacockish personal style and celebrates the kookiest among us, from Nicki Minaj to Bryan Boy.
Have you all seen the film’s Capitol Couture Tumblr?
Photo credit: Murray Close
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
My dream come true!
In 1989’s Back to the Future Part II, Michael J. Fox travels in a DeLorean to the year 2015, when flying cars and hoverboards are the norm. Now, in 2011, that sci-fi fantasy is looking like it could one day be a reality… sort of. Terrafugia, the company that developed the Transition flying car, is one step closer to making its futuristic product available to the public.
