How can you resist this face?
My little Sawyer, ready to go!
I'm based in the Bay Area and I make videos that either go on TV or the web. Currently, I work at Revision3.
I believe I am addicted to the internet.
I like dark chocolate, red wine, pop music, good food, my dog Jango and *shocking* some reality TV shows.
I will never apologize for these interests, or force you to like them too.
Hello world!
What a moving 2 hour telethon. I was so moved I tried calling throughout the telethon. I finally got through, 5 minutes after the live broadcast officially ended.
The operator took my info and when the transaction was finished, he said, "Would you like to talk to a celebrity in the studio"? I said, "Sure".
I had no idea they were still taking calls. Upon transfer all I heard was a "click". Yup, got disconnected.
So close! Still, that wasn't the point. I remember the story of the woman who planned to adopt a Hatian girl and was in Haiti with the girl when the earthquake struck. She had to leave, and due to the still incomplete paperwork, she couldn't take the child back to the states. She left the girl with a friend, and has since lost contact.
Yeah, I lost it at that point. I hope she is able to heard word from her friend and little girl soon.
The Justin T performance stood out for me. Very moving and poignant. My how he has grown up.
You can still donate here: https://www.hopeforhaitinow.org/
Wow. Wow. Wow!
I'm in awe of this editing feat! Taking all the scenes that were shot out of order (in different years) to put together the crash landing of Oceanic 815. OMG. Just amazing.
I am admittedly a huge dorky American Idol fan. Yup, I've watched every season since the very first. I might jump ship when Simon stars X-Factor in the US, but for now I'm in full viewing mode for Season 9 of A.I.
Making the big rounds of viral craziness is an A.I. audition from a 62 year old man, General Larry Platt. He's way over the age limit to really audition, but that's not the point.
Seems like everyone is loving his original song, "Pants on the Ground", including Mr. Jimmy Fallon who does an amazing rendition in the style of Neil Young. He is spot on!
Here's a link to the original "Pants on the Ground" audition.
Well written article. Kinda nails what bothered me about Avatar. I really liked the movie, and I wouldn't call it racist, but the story could've been written with more finesse. Especially with that $300 mil budget! The "white man's guilt" theme is old.
Exerpt:
"...that it reinforces "the white Messiah fable."
The film's writer and director, James Cameron, says the real theme is about respecting others' differences.
In the film (read no further if you don't want the plot spoiled for you) a white, paralyzed Marine, Jake Sully, is mentally linked to an alien's body and set loose on the planet Pandora. His mission: persuade the mystic, nature-loving Na'vi to make way for humans to mine their land for unobtanium, worth $20 million per kilo back home.
Like Kevin Costner in "Dances with Wolves" and Tom Cruise in "The Last Samurai" or as far back as Jimmy Stewart in the 1950 Western "Broken Arrow," Sully soon switches sides. He falls in love with the Na'vi princess and leads the bird-riding, bow-and-arrow-shooting aliens to victory over the white men's spaceships and mega-robots.
Adding to the racial dynamic is that the main Na'vi characters are played by actors of color, led by a Dominican, Zoe Saldana, as the princess. The film also is an obvious metaphor for how European settlers in America wiped out the Indians".
