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An 85-year-old man going to get his taxes done happened to see a dance studio in the same building. He had for decades dreamed of taking tap dancing lessons, and despite the fact that he was a bit unsteady on … Continue reading
Category Archives: Arts and entertainment
A very popular YouTube video (included in this previous post) matched 66 clips of dance scenes from classic films to the song “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars. Someone in France has created a similar mashup, this time … Continue reading
Garry Shandling died Thursday at the age of 66, and that night Conan O’Brien talked about how Shandling helped him get past a personal crisis, partly as a consequence of a strange coincidence. There have been a lot of tributes … Continue reading
Music associated with positive emotions — love, happiness, and so on — tends to be written in a major key, and minor keys are used for music meant to sound sad, eerie, or menacing. This is of course very rough … Continue reading
Blender is excellent software for creating computer-generated images, animations, and special effects. Remarkably, it’s also free and open source. (It can be downloaded here for various operating systems.) Here are two recent short animated films (combined running time under six … Continue reading
I’m sure a lot of work (not by me!) went into matching dance routines from 66 classic musicals to the song “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars (the official music video for which can be found on YouTube … Continue reading
Just recently a friend of mine complained that overuse of computer-generated visual effects have ruined movies. Here’s an interesting response to that: Link: https://youtu.be/bL6hp8BKB24 In brief, the problem isn’t the effects, it’s the writing. Meanwhile, today’s digital effects are often … Continue reading
In this short (under four-minute) video essay John Green talks about YouTube Red — which basically gives you ad-free YouTube and some exclusive content for $10 a month — and what that might mean for the future of YouTube. John … Continue reading
Following up on yesterday’s post on how Jabba the Hutt deserves more respect, here’s an interesting real-life discussion between a father and his five-year-old daughter about the outfit Jabba bought Princess Leia when they were dating. (It’s a recorded conversation … Continue reading
Sorry to be so late mentioning this, but the new Jesse Stone movie, Lost in Paradise, premiered on the Hallmark Movies and Mysteries Channel last night, and naturally I missed it. It will be shown again October 25 on the … Continue reading