a shadow of a shadow

I'm impressed with the photoshop skills involved in the "water dress". An arcane contraption of imagination that makes it hard to tango without drenching your partner.

Gisele Bundchen Dons Water Dress

So twenty years ago (which in Hollywood years, dear reader, is about a century), the film that surprised everyone with its charm was 'The Princess Bride' by director Rob Reiner.

The film was nominated for a series of awards and won a few as well. It boosted several careers and cemented several characters and quotes in the public media consciousness. It's a film that serves the book well (it should, the author did the screenplay) and the book was quite brilliant and complex.

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from princejvstin

"A great movie is a movie I cannot bear the thought of never seeing again"

so some folks are listing their own 'heart movie'

here

I have to admit it never occurred to me...

Cosplay (costume play) has gotten so elegant and glamorous that it can inspire trump artistry. Now there are copyright and fair use issues, but that's true of most images on the web.

sample:
http://images.cosplay.com/showphoto.php?photo=1003156

Of course, I have no context for most of the roles. But in terms of infinite shadow outfits and hair colors: wow.

Finished the Potter book

So I watched the finale of Heroes last night...
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This article

selling the war

shows how fear rules our lives and our reporting media sources. It also shows how a 'big lie' works so much better than small ones.

Our leaders have been lying to us. History tells us this happens. It's not a new ploy.
But the administration has proven very good at the 'big lie'. At selling that lie in order to be heroes.

It makes it so very hard to support the political system, knowing neither party is interested in straight talk.

-sigh-

Never start a David Weber book after dinner.

Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about.
This brain does not work on two hours of sleep.

In unrelated news, must recommend the Carrie Vaughn books about the radio personality, Kitty Norville. Read the first some time ago and found it engaging without a huge 'ick' factor (story about werewolves and how Kitty might survive becoming one.)  Deals much with the alpha dynamics and pack social cues of wolves.

This weekend, I read next two books in series. Author must have sold enough of number one!! Go you.
Number four due out first part of 2008 and I want it now, thank you.

In case you've not been watching lately: the plot is moving to a very tense confrontation layer by layer.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0383.html

It just goes to show, that if you really have a good story, the visuals only have to be consistent. The creative ingenuity here is marvelous for any rpg gamer. Though only stick figures, I really see them as realized personalities.

This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved.

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